We are Trash, and culture, and life, and city!
31/05/2012.
Universidad de Palermo [BS AS] Argentina. 01/06/2012. 18.30 h.
metalocus, VÍCTOR LÓPEZ-REY GARCÍA
metalocus, VÍCTOR LÓPEZ-REY GARCÍA
The talk will focus on reviewing several Basurama projects that include Latino American works (Urban Solid Waste, 13 public art projects), the work focused on space debris and re-use, town planning and urban metabolism.
It will also have a strong educational component, inviting the participants to build their own worlds and their own ways, from the internal Basurama practice and some of the excellent and often unknown creators with whom they have worked. All of them with interesants and kamikaze creations that architecture students may look and study.
The talk aims to provide the possibility of reconstructing other Basurama maps from each one of the attendees.
Basurama always wanted to keep the spirit of innovation and collaboration that pushed them to join in 2001 when they were students at the School of Architecture of Madrid.
Basurama is a forum for discussion and reflection on trash, waste and reuse in all its formats and possible meanings. It was born in Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) in the year 2001 and, since then, it has evolved and acquired new shapes.
Their aim is to study those phenomena inherent in the massive production of real and virtual trash in the consumer society, providing points of view on the subject that might generate new thoughts and attitudes. They find gaps in these processes of production and consume that not only raise questions about the way they manage their resources but also about the way they think, they work, they perceive reality.
Far from trying to offer a single manifest to be used as a manual, Basurama has compiled a series of multiform opinions and projects, not necessarily resembling each other, which explore different areas. We try to establish subtle connections between them so that they may give rise to unexpected reactions. We are not worried about its lack of unity; moreover, we believe it to be evocative and potentially subversive.