Waste Matters Adaptive Reuse For Productive Landscapes | Environment & Sustainability

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment. Habits of disposal are deeply ingrained in our daily lives so casual and continual that we rarely ever stop to ponder the big-picture effects on social spatial and ecological orders. Rethinking the ways in which we produce collect discard and reuse our waste whether it’s materials spaces or places is essential to ensure a more feasible future. Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking disassembly reassembly recycling adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Waste Matters will inspire designers to sample and rearrange bits of artifacts from the past and present to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive materials objects architecture and environments. |Waste Matters Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes | Environment & Sustainability