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NEW SPACES Team leader MIA OLD OBJECTS CALL FOR ACTION BETTER YOUTH FOR A BETTER WORLD

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NEW SPACES

Team leader MIA

OLD OBJECTS

CALL FOR ACTION

BETTER YOUTH FOR A BETTER WORLD

All began 200 years ago with the industrial revolution

When machineries replaced human labor and fossil fuels became our main production source

This made us able to produce more … in a shorter amount of time

And be able to easily satisfy our daily needs

Which had a major effect on human population growth, resource consumption and waste production

How big are these effects on our planet’s scale???

1 billion people in 18046 billion people in 1999 7 billion people in 2010And with a growth of

75 million people/year we will reach

9 billion people by 2046

Each year in the European Union alone we throw away 1.3 billion tones of waste. This amounts to

about 3.5 tones of solid waste for every man, woman and child.

In the past three decades 1/3 of the planet’s resources has been

consumed.

Sources: the United Nations, Population Division; the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Environmental Protection Agency;European Commission focus on waste management; Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism

Human consumption has doubled in the last 30 years and continues

to accelerate with 1.5 percent per year.

The average American produces about 2kg of waste a day, 13 kg a week and 726 kg a year.

Between 1990 and 1995, the amount of

waste generated in Europe increased by 10%

Humanity ecological footprint has increased to 125% of global carrying

capacity and could rise to 170% by 2040.

HOW CAN WE CUT THIS CHAIN

AND MAKE PEOPLE STOP FOR A WHILE ?

TRASHGARBAGE

USED OBJECTS

SCULPTURESURBAN FURNITURE

DECORATION OBJECTSINVENTIONS

TOYS AND GAMES FOR THE CHILDREN

WHO WILL START THIS? An artist/craftman who knows how to give

a new life to apparently useless obects

By creating a public space that can change it’s appearance when people need it

HOW? By helding lectures, public debates, workshops, expositions, demonstrations...

FOR WHOM? For all the children who live in the neighbourhood, no matter their social status.

WHEN? During the weekends, in the afternoon or evening

•By collecting their waste and old objects

•By sharing tools and objects with the community

•By participating in the workshops•By creating new objects

INHABITANTS

•By holding exhibitions in the neighbourhood’s public space

•By coordinating free recycling workshops in the neighbourhood

•By coordinating debates about new ways of recycling/reuse our trash

ARTISTS

•By providing the authorizations needed to allow the activities happen in the public space

•By promoting the events•By organizing competitions between

the neighbourhoods

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

•By donating tools and materials necessary for this workshop

•By promoting the events

SPONSORS

•By interacting with the inhabitants and knowing their thoughts and needs

•By mediating the relationship inhabitants – local authorities

NGO’S

Who is involved in this change and how?

WITH THE HELP OF AN ARTIST AND A SIMPLE “COMMUNITY” BOX

MOBILE, SUSTAINABLE (NO ENERGY CONSUMPTION, NO CO2 EMISSIONS, REUSED MATERIALS – WOOD, IRON ETC.), HUMAN POWERED, LIGHT

WEIGHT, RELATIVELY FAST, INDEPENDENT OF TRAFFIC JAMS

A “COMMUNITY” BOX THAT CAN GO WHEREVER

AND WHENEVER YOU NEED IT

AND CAN CREATE NEW “MAGICAL” OBJECTS, WITH

THE CHILDREN’S HELP.

What will the youth experience by participating to these activities?

The FUN of spending free time with family and friends.

The joy of CREATING an object with one’s own hands.

The sense of PRESERVING our environment.

The pleasure of WORKING together.

The act of DISCOVERING news ways of recycling.

The benefits of informal LEARNING.

A new way of VOLUNTEERING and creating a social network.

MIHALACHE ALINA MIHAELA

“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism

Bucharest, Romania