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Reevaluating and Rethinking Relationship With Waste

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

D. Gobic Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

R.R.J. van de Pas History, Form & Aesthetics - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
R.R. van den Ban Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Stavros Kousoulas Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
R.J. Nottrot Education and Student Affairs (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

03-07-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

1.7 Earths currently, 3 in the next decade.
That is the worth of resources that we are using yearly, and the estimated doubling of it,
by the end of the following decade. Two-thirds out of all those extracted resources end up as waste.
It’s kind of ironic and paradoxical that we go to all that trouble to obtain these valuable resources and materials, design them, form them to become something, just to become nothing, worthless, waste, by a simple toss into the garbage bin.
But one can be wasteful only in abundance - this abundance, however, breeds a carelessness towards consumption, accumulation, and ultimately, destruction.
This is an exploratory (design) thesis that delves into how to reevaluate waste conceptualization, and what would be needed for a collective to do so. How to create a space where the Ethos of Care and Repair becomes (one of) the method(s) of this reconceptualization, and rethinking relationship with waste.