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Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
The 2010 Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace Conference has been scheduled for August 4-6, 2010 at the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture in London, UK. The conference will be co-hosted with the RSA Design and Society project. Please go to the ESJP website (http://esjp.org) for further details.
First Online Publication
Here's a link to the first publication about the Cartonero BackFlip Chair: http://yatzer.com/1900_the_back-flip_project_by_mut-architecture
RISD Teams Up With Waste for Life
During the 2009-2010 academic year the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) joins the Waste for Life effort through a number of on-campus initiatives.
One Good Chair
Waste for Life and Mut-Architecture won 4th place for the Cartonero BackFlip Chair in the One Good Chair design competition sponsored by The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center Las Vegas. The contest's challenge was this: Design an original chair...
Closing the Circle
Shortly after arriving in Buenos Aires in June 2007, we visited Carlos Perini at the Cooperativa de Trabajo Avellaneda Limitada (https://www.wasteforlife.org/?p=19). Technically, this is not a cartonero cooperative, but is instead a sort of low level middleman, buying...
The Third Side of a Coin
Any doubts we harbored that it was back to business as usual in Buenos Aires were quickly dispelled during the past week. The volatile mixture of garbage, recycling, cartoneros, local government, national government, private enterprise, and the Zero Garbage Law have...