[challenge:future] better youth for a better world
TRANSCRIPT
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.
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.