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Made Out of WHAT
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Made Out of WHAT is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness about the challenge of industrial and consumer waste by showcasing brilliant, practical solutions from artists and designers around the world. Our goals are to help accelerate the movement toward adaptive re-use; encourage sustainable innovation and pro-environmental values which foster zero-waste communities; and promote the circular economy.
Let's Talk TRASH: Marina Griponisioti
Convert Art, one of the earliest upcycling companies in Greece, was founded in 2012 by a girl whose heart beat faster for cars and motorcycles. Wandering into a garage piled high with abandoned tires, Marina Griponisioti fell in love with the material and even with its imagined stories, and embarked with relish on a successful career designing and making bags, accessories, jewelry, and all manner of stylish wearable gear out of used inner tubes, tires, electrical materials, bits of wood and aluminum. Based in Athens, with 400 different designs and 35 outlets throughout Europe selling her award-winning work, this Superwoman has single-handedly given new life to over 20 tons of inner tubes!...
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LET'S TALK TRASH with Marcus Eriksen
Просмотров 5575 лет назад
This month we present Marcus Eriksen with an interview from our August event series in Los Angeles. Marcus is the Research Director and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. His expeditions to every subtropical ocean gyre, inland lake and river resulted in the first global estimate in 2015 of all plastic particles of every size to be found floating in the world’s oceans and waterways. By underst...
LET'S TALK TRASH with Lesvos Solidarity in Lesvos Greece
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Since 2016, Lesvos Solidarity, and Mosaik Support Center for Refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos has provided a space of safety, dignity, and community for 630 vulnerable asylum seekers from 20 countries. Mosaik offers language courses in English, Greek, Arabic and Farsi, legal support, vocational training in arts and crafts, upcycling workshops, music and dance classes, daycare for young ch...
LET'S TALK TRASH Maria Fiter in Barcelona
Просмотров 6055 лет назад
About one billion trees worth of paper is thrown out every year in the U.S alone and a significant part of that can be attributed to good old-fashioned newspapers. Fortunately, newspapers are easy to recycle and as a result, seventy-three percent of them are recycled in the U.S annually. Newspapers can be recycled up to four times, but just like plastic, the material diminishes in quality each ...
LET'S TALK TRASH with Bordalo in Lisbon Portugal
Просмотров 9 тыс.6 лет назад
Street artist Bordalo Segundo was born in Lisbon, Portugal and uses his home country as a canvas for his raw assemblages. When you look closer at Bordalo's creations, you see end-of-life materials such as garbage cans, appliances and tires, to raise ecological and social awareness in the public realm. Drawing attention to the vulnerability of other species on the planet, he has a penchant for c...
LET'S TALK TRASH with Faiza Hajji in Morocco
Просмотров 8897 лет назад
Woman-owned and operated NGO transforming plastic bags into elegant handbags! #letstalktrash #madeoutofwhat #plasticfree #environment #recycledart #plasticpollution #solution #handbags #innovation #art #artcycle #sustainability #trashtag #FaizaHajji #Morocco
LET'S TALK TRASH with Laura Stefani in Padua Italy
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Laura Stefani aims to give dignity and value to plastic. Completely self-taught, she has developed her own non-toxic fabrication technique through experimentation. She patiently cuts her material by hand, mainly discarded plastic bottles, into thin filaments which she then interlaces and heats to achieve her desired shapes. Stefani collaborates with the silversmith Eva Franceschini, who realize...
MOoW Exhibition in Times Square for NYC Design Week
Просмотров 3137 лет назад
Visit our website to learn more www.madeoutofwhat.com Exuberant, decorated and constructed from repurposed objects, the Made Out of WHAT exhibit is a curation of designed objects, images, and videos that inspire and instruct on the importance of sustainable practices. Made Out of WHAT is a global initiative based in Los Angeles that showcases innovative high design made from post-consumer and i...
LET'S TALK TRASH with Aaron Kramer in Los Angeles CA
Просмотров 5567 лет назад
Aaron Kramer's sculptural work is typically of a woven or constructed nature. By exploring the intersection between the found and fabricated, Kramer seeks a deeper understanding of the transcendent nature of ordinary objects. Kramer works primarily in recycled materials such as reclaimed hardwoods, coffee stirrers, strapping material, buttons, tin can lids, and scrap street sweeper bristles. Sc...
Introducing Made Out of WHAT
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Introducing the global nonprofit Made Out of WHAT which makes the case through beauty and utility that consumer and industrial waste holds the potential to solve the existential problem of consumer and industrial waste. Our introductory film showcases brilliant solutions by artists and designers from all over the world who recognize its potential as the free, ubiquitous “raw” material of the 21...