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OLDtin treasured

CONTAINERS NEVER DIE, THEY GET RESURRECTED

The ubiquitous container lives many lives and on, and on. They should never be, indeed do not need to be, rubbished.

THE PONRABBEL:NEW LIFE REQUIRED

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One of Launceston Tasmania's iconic ‘heritage relics', The PONRABBEL has reached a turning point and is in need of a new and dignified life. She has lingered on tied up to the city historic King’s Wharf for quite some time waiting for that ‘new life'. With the passing of her custodian and owner the time has come to find what that life might be.

It has been suggested that she is “just so much rubbish and scrap iron” but she is more than that – much more.

So, the call is out for suggestions, proposals and recommendations as to what that ‘new life’ might look like, could look like, should look like.  

Whatever it is, she needs and deserves dignity in that new life. Likewise her stories need to told, to live on and grow given the important role she has played in contributing to the city’s heritage. The the layering of the storytelling that belongs to her and the city's 'placedness' is something much more than significant.

The call is out for ideas, your ideas, about how she might be reused, recycled, reinvented, restored, reimagined, rewhatevered starts now! 

Currently there is process evolving via INSTITUTE43 and its eJOURNAL ‘PONRABBEL’ to field suggestions and proposals. Visit the journal for some background ... Click Here

This is an opportunity to think 'outside the box' and when you have something to offer eMAIL INSTITUTE43@bigpond.com with your offerings.

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PLASTICtreasures

Well we can worry a lot about the plastic that's floating around in our oceans OR we can find stuff to do  with it! SOMEthing is only RUBBISH if you imagine that it is. There is another way to think about a problem. There always is!

There would be almost no need for any more plastic to be made if all that has been produced was actively been cycled in CULTURALlandscape/s we occupy. Trees leave when we exploit then and return if we look after their seeds. to be there they need our careing.

 In fact if this were so, a great deal of that which has been produced would be USEDup and not floating in the oceans and waterways that are a part of our CULTURALlandscaping. Unlike the organic materials of ‘wickery’ that return, in time, gently to the earth, ‘plastics’ stick around waiting to to be cycled. 

It is not the phenomena BIGplastic that we should be concerned about but rather the ECONOMICparadigm currently dominating our CULTURALlandscaping, or indeed our PLACEmaking. 

The materiality in ‘PLASTIC’ is such that we need to USEup this ‘stuff’ and mindfully. It resists gentleness, it demands to be USEDup and when it is not it doesn’t let us forget about its presence once we have made it. 

It seems to demand that we continue to pay attention to its presence. It will not leave quietly. We must pay attention to it like a noisy child at meal time who continually tell us that they are there – or indeed or companion pets when demanding /craving our love and undivided attention! 

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PLASTIC IS NOT RUBBISH UNLESS WE IMAGINE IT THAT WAY

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OLDfense Materials

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When they tell you its past it's use-by-date have a think. When they tell you its not fashionable anymore worry about the planet. When they tell you that all you can do is scrap it, wonder out loud. When they tell you its ugly think why. When they tell you its rubbish look at who is telling you this. When they tell you it is useless care about waste. When they tell you that it will not be liked as, who says. When they tell you it will not work, give it a go. When they say don't do it, go ahead anyway.... Mostly they are wrong, wrong, wrong ..... SEE http://notrubbish.blogspot.com/

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FOR MUSING

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Stuff can have another life even if it has lost its purpose. It can teach us stuff and prompt memories in a new 'musing' albeit illusive. Not quite rubbish perhaps.

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NOTrubbish A CULTURALtreasure

Throughout time denim was designed to last and when it turns up in indigo blue  has been accumulating narratives, stories and myths to do with place and time – Japan, California, 'pop culture', etc.

Indigo denim in a global context carries layer upon layer of meaning with much of it finding its foundation in 'The American Dream', gold mining and the material wealth. Nonetheless there are quite different resonances at work in Japanese culture and the sensitivities and sensibilities  that inform it.

Currently globalism's relevance in a 21st C  context is being interrogated and reimagining 'materiality' is increasingly on the agenda as resources, and access to them, are the subject of a range of changing imperatives – environmental, sociopolitical, cultural etc. Almost unavoidably this cloth comes loaded with cultural cargo not to mention the 'wabi-sabi factor'.