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Painting a Picture
Every Sunday night in the Bronx, before going to sleep, I take a few bags of separated garbage that have been accumulating during the week and put them down on the sidewalk in front of my apartment - plastic, glass, cardboard. These bags are picked up sometime between...
Synchronicity
It seems to me that the conversations we are having now with cooperatives about our project are more detailed and to the point than they were when we arrived. Of course, you will say, because you now know more about what you are doing. But in fact, I haven’t noticed...
INTI
We recently developed links with Patricia Eisenberg’s group at the Plastics Department of INTI. Initially we hoped to be able to use the hotpress at INTI to try out some of the local materials but today we met Patricia and she was keen to move beyond this and to work...
Cooperativa de trabajo “19 de diciembre”
Yesterday, accompanied by Rhiannon, our amazing friend and translator, we visited the Cooperativa de trabajo "19 de diciembre." We learned about this 'recuperated' metallurgic factory shortly after arriving in BA, and it's name kept popping up over the past few...
So Many Hot Presses
Whilst our partner Darko works away in Canada to try to get funding for future work (to build more hot presses in Africa), here in Buenos Aires I try to understand his design and interpret it for the potential hot press manufacturers that I have been speaking to. Its...
Traveling Knowledge
We arrived in Buenos Aires almost 3 months ago (it's now the project's midpoint) with some fairly ambitious but, nevertheless, straightforward goals: share knowledge of the processes of combining waste plastic with natural fibers to produce affordable composite...