Trash experiment

From Publication Station

The ‘trash’ experiment
can we make without using new materials?

Elective juni 2023

  • What can we make from a few weeks of waste from the print and printmaking studio?
  • Save the dry trash from te Station during the month of May. Challenge: where and how to store this material? De we need to sort the material? if yes in what categories.
  • Do we need to at 'fresh' materials or can we create from ?

What to save? Misprints from al the printers (riso, screen print, Canon, Mimaki Epsons) cardriges rolls boxes plastics all the 'dry' and publication station specific materials.

An idea

What to make?

  • publication
  • piece of art
  • statement
  • decoration

‎‏Strategies for recycling materials

  • Sorting stuff, Knolling (as eerste opdracht)
  • Print on custom size paper.

Links

introduction

We start with exploring with which material we work this week. Then we come up with a plan how we can work with this materials. Then we have 2 day to test that idea or method. This is time intensive if you work in small teams you can divide the workload. Get to know the material you work with. Make you notes so you can share them.

Time line

  • Monday: Exploring

Welcome - goals in this week - Knolling - Slideshow about reusing materials - collective lunch Make teams 1 to 5 members Have a plan end of the day

  • Tuesday something about r pich the plan collective lunch making
  • Wednesday make test improve collective lunch
  • Thursday make test improve collective lunch
  • Friday make test improve collective lunch Final presentation