Research

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http://mms.eq.edu.au/aboriginal-toys/spinning-tops.html
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/LGweb/toys/1931_86_156.htm
www.knappstudios.com/Spinning_Tops.htm
www.civilization.ca/tresors/ethno/etb0160e.html
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spinning_tops

Product outcome – fish wall hanging

Fish wall Hanging: I still don't have a marketing name for it.

Made from waste: scrap corrugated galvanised iron and rivets
The shapes are all cut out and then riveted together in the shape of a fish. The scrap metal can really be of any shape and size, and the design can be worked around what is there. The rusted corrugated iron can’t really be used when it is rusted as its main use is weather protection. Though rust doesn’t matter and leaves good patterns to work with.

The material I used was sourced from my Dad's work. It originally came from an old shed, where dad got all the material free he just had to dismantle the shed and remove it himself. There are lots of old rusted pieces of corrugated iron from roofs, and sheds when they are rusty they are hard to reuse.

Material Play with paper

This could become an interesting light if LEDs where hung around the bits of paper too. So far it’s just a thing which hangs, made from old wrapping paper. Though wrapping paper is interesting as it really has one use involving wrapping gifts.

By Product

System ideas:

1. To set up mini recycling practices within each office complex, where their own waste is recycled and they receive their own profits. Eg: teach workers to become efficient with their resources on hand.

2. Old office furniture can be sourced out and collected then redistributed. Eg a whole lot of old chairs can be collected and refashioned with new covers to become the same, similar to Pascal’s idea with the cutlery. This could also be done with fabric with uniforms, creating whole pieces. You would ring up and order new old chairs, could trade in your existing furniture. There hasn’t been any real advances in office furniture, can easily reuse desks, chairs, filing cabinets, office dividers.

3. Rebuild: many old houses materials can all be used to rebuild a new house from flooring, to windows, walls, plaster, insulation, roofs etc. So the idea is you only use old materials first then source out new. So all old housing materials come together to be reconstructed into a new house.

4. Refurbish: Like a giant garage sale, where items from old homes that are still in good condition come together and the resold. Could start off with things like couches, tables, beds, etc that are all restored. Later could develop into electrical equipment as well, which will be examined and repaired. The system would be great for people who have just moved into their first house, people moving from overseas or interstate.

Recycling Fluorescent globes:

Made from glass, copper, tin, lead, tungsten; Manufacturing contains phosphors, lead, tin, mercury and glass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp

Re use old paint tins…They are the same size…

Wooden crates:

Shipping containers:

Textiles and fabrics:

Wastes which could be interesting:

Wastes which could be interesting:

• Rusty Corrugated iron from roofs
• Old Carpets
• Fabrics - textiles
• Plastics – orange road grid barrier
• VHS tapes
• Glass – bottles
• Tires – rubber
• Packing crates - Wood
• Ceramics – Plates
• Tuna Cans
• Barbed Wire
• Cellulose

Old phone covers, CDs, Shoes, Old Balls, Plastic cutlery, fluorescent lights

Old tools – blunt knifes

Pot plants

Shipping containers crate boxes and crates.

Old wardrobes

Desks

Broken glass, wrapped in bubble wrap.

Candle holders: Make up waste, old bottles, lids

Bubble wrap, inside tuna cans as a jewellery box.

Jewellery box made from something that is perceived cheap, easily sourced to contrast between something cheap and expensive.

Create a lid for pot plants to turn them into a storage container

Use old lights to create something new, transparent materials look really different with a light behind them

Clothes hanger lamp, using old clothing as a light, create a frame for it to hang from, can put meaning into it personalise it with your old clothing

Corrugated iron fish wall hanging, light

Hanging shelves from old cans/bottles etc.

Potpourri - Making your own connection with environment, the container it is held in needs holes to let out fragrance.

Interesting ideas

'If new isn't for you, consider the refurbished route. Increasingly, companies are using refurbished desks, chairs, and space dividers, and a whole industry has grown up around providing these things. With good reason: each year, U.S. companies buy about 3 million desks, 16.5 million chairs, 4.5 million tables, and 11 million file cabinets. Experts estimate that about half this amount is thrown away annually; according to one estimate, that's enough to furnish all the offices in Boston.

Open Plan Systems, a "re-manufacturer" based in Richmond, Va., is a typical example of this trend. To offer lower-cost, recycled workstations, the company cleans and repaints metal, replaces fabric, and recycles used materials. Open Plan uses low-VOC coatings, fabrics made from recycled plastics, and other environmentally friendly processes'

Ideas

Billboard Posters as waste paper bins.
99.9% post-industrial waste paper from billboard test prints Designer Jos van der Meulen


Citrus peel boxes
Orange, lemon and grapefruit skins
Designers Elena and Alexander Deutsch

The skins are soaked for several hours in water, then turned inside out and placed over a mould. They spend the next three days drying in the sun before being removed from the mould and polished. Suitable for jewellery, paperclips etc. The box will last for decades and the scent will stay for at least 3 to 4 years.




Video Tapes Designer REKO


Large numbers of video tapes are sold and rented, and without a change of policy these products will eventually swell the mountain of waste. This prompted the Video Division of NVPI (Dutch Organisation of Producers and Importers of Videograms and Phonograms) to explore possibilities of recycling videotapes (cassettes as well as packaging) now and in the future.

caddie for golf clubs

The caddie is created as a work of art. The process of
tracking down the right tins and combining them with
other used materials resulted in this Bab Mansour
caddie, named after the caption on the cans.

Used Truck Covers
Used PVC Billboards


Gummikruka flowerpot
Flowerpot from recycled rubber from used car tyres.


Products from this site

By Product Elective

Links:
Products
http://www.biome.com.au/

cellulose material
http://www.musterkiste.de/en/holz/pro/index,60_Cellulose_material.html
http://www.apn.com.sg/rc_materials.htm

Sustainablity Festival fed square (Bioimagination Posters)

Final Touches

Yay it's almost finished just a few blending problems and I’ll add in some more colour as looking at everyone’s on Friday mine is a little white. I don't think it will be too much just one or two spots to balance the colours out, It doesn’t help I am also next to one of the magnificently coloured in posters on my right. (James) Though you can tell it has come along way.

The story

Details

Reflection of using Drawing as a communication tool:

Though studies so far has covered verbal and written communication tackling the visual side of this has been left alone. Choosing to do this sustainability studies not only for the many trips we would be taking outside the classroom but also the opportunity to strengthen a visual tool like drawing was a great chance. Though not realising the full time commitment and difficulties in trying to communicate through a different medium like drawing there have been many long nights and collaborations with other students.

Linking with another person either side, required many discussions but the most successful are those which have interconnecting systems and flows and used it as an opportunity to enhance the story within. As the two posters feed of and continue on from the other creating a network placing it into a strong context as different lifestyles coexist and feed of each other in real life.

The different levels of enthusiasm shown through out the semester was at times a struggle as the concept really relies on collaboration, though in the end people have spent a lot of time towards the end with amazing transformations and connections. Though even now a few posters lack context (With Melbourne and its suburbs as the focus) I understand this is a future cities project and in the future with global warming it might be possible to grow bananas (scary thought) but there needs to be identifiable objects which are here today otherwise people get lost and scared and don’t understand that it’s based on factual research.

It is amazing how children draw things in a scale which is what is most important to them, so heads are heaps bigger than the bodies. Though our drawing don’t quite follow this scale there is quite a lot of detail and sub stories through out, engagement to drawing is when we can place our own ideas and thoughts within the story to make it our own, hopefully people can develop their own scale to our drawings.