by | Nov 16, 2010 | argentina, design
Today was an exhilarating yet exhausting day of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty. We had to test out the manufacturing process by which our premier product was made: the wallet (or billetera, pronounced beesh-eh-TERR-ah in Argentine Spanish) that...
by | Nov 6, 2010 | technology
Yesterday we secured a key piece of technology – a ‘selladora’ (pronounced SESH-a-DOR-ah) or heat sealer, which will allow us to make the cardholders developed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) locally. We originally wanted to find a...
by efeinblatt | Jul 5, 2010 | argentina, cartoneros, design, engineering, partners
The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look. http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/
by efeinblatt | Mar 24, 2010 | news, partners
Here are links to two recent articles from treehugger and ecouterre about our collaboration with RISD: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/cool-and-easy-to-make-recycled-plastic-bags-rain-boots.php...
by | Feb 8, 2010 | design, partners, technology
Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site. And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments. RISD-W4L Recipes [flickr-gallery...
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...