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USW Asuncion: We do not play with the serious things

More images of this project in our picasa album Urban Solid Waste in Asunción. Paraguay, from April 13th to 25th 2009. The project aims was to find new utilities for deserted places in the city of...

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Milan on wheels

More images of this project in our Picasa album April  9th to 14th 2011. Milan, Italia. Intervention in Cavalcavia Bussa. We reuse domestic furniture to create new ways to use and take up the public...

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USW Buenos Aires: Everyone is a cardboard collector

More images of this project in our picasa album Urban Solid Waste in Buenos Aires. Argentina, March 2009. In Buenos Aires we found an essential phenomenon that helps us to understand the trash´s...

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R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media

We took part in R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, a workshop organised by Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Susan Kennard y Mark Resch at Banff Centre in Canada. R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive...

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Cicloslocos. Bike construction workshop

(More images of this project in our Picasa album). Project focused on researching and building cycles out of  wasted bicycles. We organised an experimental workshop led by Mara Berkhout and did...

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USW Jordan. Suf Refugee Camp

Project to improve the conditions of public space in the Refugee Campo of Suf in Jerash. During a week we worked involving the local community of Palestinian refugees to build a childrens playground...

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USW Lima: Ghost Train Park

(More images of this project in our picasa album). Urban Solid Waste in Lima, Peru. February 2010. Reusing the abandoned electric railroad track Basurama invited the community members and local artist...

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USW Cairo: Lighting Cairo

Project: USW Cairo: Ramadan lights is a project for the design and construction of low cost prototypes to activate public spaces in the city of Cairo. The prototypes were constructed during a workshop...

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Plastic Bang! Kok

  According to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration  every day more than 600,000 plastic bags are used in Bangkok (a city with over 9 million inhabitants). Most of this bags become a residue in an...

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Autobarrios SanCristobal / Self Made Neighborhoods

Autobarrios was launched in January 2012 in the Madrid suburb of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles. The goal of this project was not to create a new responsibility for the neighborhood but to join in to...

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USW Niamey: let’s do it together!

USW Niamey: let’s do it together! is an educational training project for the design and construction outdoor games (self-made playgrounds) with local resources. 60 volunteers from 12 cultural centers...

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BOCHUM FACTORY of LEISURE and CARE (BFPfW): How to become a Granny?

Participation in project “This is not Detroit”, by Schauspielhaus Bochum and Urbane Kunst Ruhr. Bochum, Germany 12th -21st June, 2014. The project aims to reflect on the future of the industry, of the...

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Inhabiting Plastic Oceans. In Lo

In Spain the garbage bag has radically changed in the last 30 years. While in the 80s our home trash was filled in with organic leftovers and broken items (furniture, clothes,….) nowadays the main...

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“El Pati -Obert-”. Creative space for coexistence.

CONTEXT The great amount of empty and unused urban sites in the historic city centre of Lleida entails not only a urban and socioeconomic conflict but environmental, social and esthetic. Taking this...

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Self-made playground in Malabo

Context A brief passage in the town of Malabo (capital of Guinea Equatorial) is enough to realize that its public is almost non-existent. Beyond the numerous bars of the city and their terraces token...

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