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"Our commitment to openness has foreclosed our imaginations. So long as the problem is defined as one of ‘closure,’ open projects will be blind to other politics, other ways of knowing and understanding how we organise, how we share power, and how we imagine our shared future. The framing of ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ leaves us without the tools needed to confront violent extremism, online radicalisation, rising inequality, and ecological catastrophe."
In a bid to dramatically reduce waste, the Berlin government launched a facility in September that could be the first of its kind: a state-run department store that both sells items that might otherwise get thrown away and acts as an education center encouraging repair and reuse.
Ob in Deiner Nachbarschaft oder im Internet, in Berlin können Dir viele Projekte, Initiativen und Läden auf Deinem Weg zu Zero Waste helfen. Sie wollen alle möglichen Gegenstände davor bewahren, im Müll zu landen. Defekter Toaster, ausgelesenes Buch oder ungenutztes Möbelstück - irgendwo wartet ein neues Zuhause für all die Dinge, die Du eigentlich wegschmeißen wolltest.
Der Re-Use-Store im Karstadt Hermannplatz ist seit 9. September täglich zwischen 10 und 20 Uhr für Sie im 3. OG geöffnet. Hier ist nichts einfach nur neu, aber alles neu zusammengestellt, designt und repariert. Entdecken Sie kreative Upcycling-Kollektionen, gerettete Retouren und originelle Re-Use-Produkte mit Charakter und: Geschichte.
Stefan Tidow, Staatssekretär für Umwelt und Klimaschutz, hat am 9. September 2020 mit dem B-Wa(h)renhaus den ersten Re-Use Store für Gebrauchtwaren in einem Berliner Kaufhaus eröffnet. Ein halbes Jahr lang werden gut erhaltene Gebrauchtwaren im 3. Stock bei Karstadt am Herrmannplatz angeboten.
Die NochMall ist das erste Kaufhaus für Gebrauchtwaren in Berlin, was viel mehr ist als ein Secondhand-Kaufhaus. In der NochMall werden nicht nur Möbel, Kleidung, Elektrogeräte, Haushaltswaren, Spielzeug, Bücher und vieles mehr auf über 2.000 Quadratmeter verkauft, um ihnen ein zweites Leben zu geben, sondern die NochMall wird ein Erlebnisort für Kreislaufwirtschaft und Abfallvermeidung.
In the last years of the ’60s and the beginning of the 70’s two extraordinary experiments happening in London, the Drury Lane Arts Lab and the New London Arts Lab are the subject of a new book, just out, written by one of the survivors of these experiments, David Curtis – ‘London’s Arts Labs and the 60’s Avant-Garde’.
Capital Vol. I : Chapter Twenty-Six (The Secret of primitive Accumulation)
Cybersalon Afrofuturism Event: Reclaiming Cyberspace, with Douglas Rushkoff, David Bering-Porter, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Derek Richards, Richard Barbrook and Steven Oram and hosted by Eva Pascoe.
The emergence of the Maker Movement has taken place in the context of a design practice and research that is now open, peer-to-peer, diffuse, distributed, decentralized; activity-based; meta-designed; ontologically-defined and defining; locally-bounded but globally-networked and community-centered. For many years the author participated and worked in the Maker Movement, with a special focus on its usage of digital platforms and digital fabrication tools for collaboratively designing and manufacturing digital and physical artifacts as Open Design projects. The author's main focus in practice and research as a meta-designer was in understanding how can participants in distributed systems collaboratively work together through tools and platforms for the designing and managing of collaborative processes. The main research question of this dissertation is: How can we support and integrate the research and practice of meta-designers in analyzing, designing and sharing open and collaborative design and making processes within open, peer-to-peer and distributed systems?
But when he asked the manufacturer to send him a replacement part, he was surprised to receive the manufacturer’s response: “ ‘Absolutely no.’ ”
“I had just expected, ‘Oh, no problem. Where can we send it?’ ” he said. “I wasn’t expecting them to dig their heels in.”
Mackeil was well aware of what’s become a common obstacle for hospitals: Manufacturers not only have a monopoly over even simple replacement parts, but they also often allow only their authorized service technicians to repair equipment.
“I had just expected, ‘Oh, no problem. Where can we send it?’ ” he said. “I wasn’t expecting them to dig their heels in.”
Mackeil was well aware of what’s become a common obstacle for hospitals: Manufacturers not only have a monopoly over even simple replacement parts, but they also often allow only their authorized service technicians to repair equipment.
Kamel first became involved with the community in 1982 when she started an informal school. Since zabbaleen children accompany their fathers on forays to collect garbage from an early age, she designed the school so that attendance is flexible.
The UK as a whole is moving towards sustainability by reducing, re-using and recycling. Each nation seeks to preserve resources, minimise waste, send less to landfill, protect our ecology and make a positive impact on climate change. The future of waste is smart waste, efficiently tracking waste to it’s final destination and accountability for waste throughout it’s lifecycle.
We build easy-to-use tech to connect UK waste producers to licensed waste services and simplify compliance. We believe in making the relevant data accessible and convenient to use, driving behaviour change and creating value by maximising the utility of waste.
In this seminar we will explore tensions around the emergence of population as a managerial category starting in the second half of the 20th century and the production of scarcity under contemporary capitalism; the development of new technologies of birth control — from menstrual tracking apps to smart implants; and the norms currently associating population growth with the climate crisis. The course will be divided into three modules, each focusing on one of the previously mentioned topics.
Oil and gas companies make far more money churning out new plastic than reusing old. Meanwhile, the public gets the blame, writes Arwa Mahdawi
It turns out that the industry had lobbied states to mandate that the symbol go on every plastic, even if it was not viable to recycle, and evidently even environmentalists approved. The symbol became a green marketing tool, helping convince the public that it was just fine to use all this plastic because it was getting recycled. Meanwhile, it made the stream of plastic even more expensive to separate and process. No wonder it so much of it was shipped to China, where the labor was cheap enough to have people go through it and pick out the valuable stuff, and the environmental standards were poor enough that everything else could be dumped or burned. When China closed its doors, the whole façade fell apart.