Finding new purposes for artificial things that have become ‘waste’, and using them to create new things that get people to think about the relation between the things we make or design, and their impact on our planet, its natural ecosystems, and the nonhuman world, i.e. the world of animals, plants, microbes and other beings. This is also about looking at things around us as a source of inspiration, especially taking a look at our waste from a different perspective and through a different lens and hopefully instill or support a practice of upcycling and re-use.
Choose an animal species that is endangered and under threat, and design and prototype a bust or model of it using the recycled materials that you’ve collected. Use any tools or materials to cut, saw, twist, reshape, mold, glue, attach any combination of recycled materials to create your animal. Design a model of the entire animal or just a part of it, but please make sure that it is identifiable as the animal you’ve chosen. Use this opportunity to make your own building materials like making your own clay, dough, glue, modeling paste etc.
