by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | featured, partners
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...
by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | asides
Here’s a link to the first publication about the Cartonero BackFlip Chair: http://yatzer.com/1900_the_back-flip_project_by_mut-architecture
by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | partners
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. These include an industrial design studio that will build a Kingston Press at RISD, a school-wide design competition...
by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | design, partners
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...
by efeinblatt | Jan 9, 2009 | argentina, cartoneros
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...
by efeinblatt | Dec 19, 2008 | argentina, cartoneros
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...
by efeinblatt | Dec 12, 2008 | argentina, cartoneros
The NY Times published a December 7th article titled Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up, which confirms what we’ve been learning here. The market for recyclables is drying up, and prices have declined precipitously. We don’t know yet the extent...
by efeinblatt | Dec 12, 2008 | argentina, technology
We worked most of Tuesday with university electricians to rewire the hotpress so that it wouldn’t continually shut down the electrical circuits in the FADU basement, outside of the CEP, where it is now located. By Wednesday morning the electrical work was...
by efeinblatt | Dec 10, 2008 | argentina, technology
About 2 weeks before arriving in Buenos Aires, we arranged with Carlos Levinton to move the hotpress from INTI, where it had languished this past year, to his Center for Experimental Production (CEP) at the University of Bs.As. We wanted to maximize the short time we...
by efeinblatt | Dec 4, 2008 | argentina, cartoneros
We’ve been quiet on these pages for almost one year – the time that has passed since we left BsAs and returned to North America – but this doesn’t mean that we’ve been quiet. Much and little has happened in the interim between December...
