zingREPAIR C1990

When you buy a house and the owner before last leaves you an ASHpan that you can also use to pick up 'doggy-dooz' you have something of real value. When the dog chews the handle it is really, really annoying until there's this apple tree branch that's much better than a 'bought-one' IF you can find one– and better than the one that the dog chewed. 

At this point a repair can become a real treasure. The aesthetic at wortk is known INhouse as RSB (Robust Strong & Beautiful) AKA 'rip-shit-and-bust'

REPAIR IT ... FIX IT

https://repaircafe.org/en/

 ABC: Can pop-up 'repair cafes' save broken gadgets and 

solve growing waste levels? CLICK HERE

At Repair Cafes,‘Beloved but Broken’ Possessions Find New Life CLICK HERE

Sweden is paying people to fix their belongings 

instead of throwing them away  CLICK HERE

This Will Be The First Trash-Free Community In 

The World. Let's Take A Peek CLICK HERE

Waste not want not: Sweden to give tax breaks for repairs CLICK HERE

"Right to Repair" Is About a Whole Lot More Than iPhones CLICK HERE

http://ifixit.org/right?lang=en

Repair is the lifeblood of local economies.CLICK HERE

Get your broken stuff fixed for free at a 'repair cafe' 

Perfectly imperfect

At its simplest, wabi-sabi is an aesthetic ideal that stresses the authentic over the artificial, the worn over the new, and the imperfect over the ideal. Wabi (侘) can refer to the imperfections of objects, the simplicity of everyday items that fulfill a function rather than a form. Sabi (寂) brings to mind wear and tear that reminds us that nothing last forever and that signs of age on an object might actually help us appreciate its value that much more. After all, nothing lasts forever, and items - both natural and man-made - experience their own lives as they are created and fall into decay. The authenticity of existence is what wabi-sabi is all about: imperfection, authenticity, and impermanence.

SEE ..... http://blog.andrewbaseman.com/

NOTrubbish but dumped

http://notrubbish.blogspot.com.au/p/rubbish-or-resource.html

Celery on the verge ... OR windowsill

GROWING CELERY INDOORS: NEVER BUY CELERY AGAIN

PLASTIC IS NOT RUBBISH UNLESS WE IMAGINE IT THAT WAY

Design from Eindhoven, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens shows us just how his Precious Plastic recycling machines work and explains why he made the blueprints freely available online.

It's time to reimagine 'plastic' and think of it in the way say 'gold' has been imagined for thousands of years. 

Its actually 'precious stuff' and when its thought of as 'rubbish' it becomes dangerous stuff.

Watch the video and begin to reimagine plastic!

CLICK HERE

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RESPONSIBLY REIMAGINED RESCOURCES

Plastic drinks bottles are increasingly an environmental hazard and especially so when either they, or the plastics from which they are made, find their way in the world's waterways and oceans.

However, it's not the 'plastic bottles' that are the real problem. 

Rather it is us humans who both employ them inappropriately, and dispose of them irresponsibly. And that is not to mention our failing to value the resources invested in them nearly enough.

It's might be a small thing in one sense but when the problem is compounded by the millions of times us humans, especially first world humans, mismanage the resources that are invested in them, then the problem sets off a chain reaction of environmental explosions.

Almost the worst thing we can do is imagine that these bottles can be 'recycled'. That's such a bland and one-dimensional 'get-out-of-gaol' imagining that let's off far too easily.  Rather, we need to Reuse, Reimagine & Repurpose the Resources and do so Responsibly – 5Rs. 

A RESCUEDresource

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DESIGN, THE FUTURE & SUSTAINABILITY

DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE URMADIC UNIVERSITY
Click here to listen online

The Prpgram's Guests

Cameron Tonkinwise
Associate Dean of Sustainability at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York.

Leon Fitzpatrick
Designer at MINIMAL Inc, Chicago.

Craig Bremner
Professor of Design at Charles Sturt University.

Professor Tony Fry
Design Futures Program, Griffith University.

Lisa Norton
Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Daniel Lopera
Design Futures, Griffith University.

Presenter: Antony Funnell