Bottles on Cars

We’ve been in BA for six weeks and during each of those weeks we’ve seen parked cars or pickups with large liquid-filled bottles on their hoods or roofs. At first it was just a curiosity, and we had fun trying to guess what was going on, but eventually the...

The Presence of Absent Ones

Previously we mentioned the friendly welcome we received from Carlos Levinton and his research group at the University of Buenos Aires. We’ll write more about what promises to be a very fruitful collaboration with them in later posts, but want to point back to...

The Workers’ Economy

Over the last few days we have been completely exhausted, stimulated, moved and frustrated by the conference ‘The Workers’ Economy: Self management and the Distribution of Wealth’. It is not news to the progressive that something interesting has been...

Wading into the Waters

We left North America two weeks ago with a handful of contacts in Buenos Aires, a sample 3inch x 3inch composite tile fabricated in Caroline’s Queens U. lab, years of experience as educational developers, scientific knowledge about waste plastics and natural fiber...