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Basurama: a framework for
designing collectively with waste
Pablo Rey Mazón. Basurama.
basurama.org

Contents, unless noted, by Basurama under license:
Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported.
Matthias Kabel. CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Establish a framework to work
collectively with waste.
Basurama: a framework for
designing collectively with waste
April 3rd 2013
Pablo Rey Mazón. Basurama.

Cultural Agents Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Waste is a   powerful
             affordable resource.


Working collectively requires:
            Listening to the others needs
            Taking time, location, material
            constrains in account
Basura = trash
ama = love
-orama = wide view of

Basurama = wide view of + love trash
1. What is waste?

2. What can we do with waste?

3. How to work collaboratively with waste?
1. What is waste?

Natural resources that have been wasted.
Waste is a resource in the wrong place.
Things that have lost their name.




“The process by which something is turned into trash can be
described as a process of disqualification: things turn into trash
when their service makes them lose the properties that described
them as these or those things, and so on and so forth, and turn only
into that "thingness", fluid and without attributes, that accumulates
in trash tips and whose regeneration depends, we could say, on
acquiring their lost properties again”.
                                                      José Luis Pardo
Whatever is tagged as waste.

               #Waste
Whatever is tagged as waste.

               #Waste
Whatever is tagged as waste.

               #Waste
Whatever is tagged as waste.

               #Waste
Whatever is tagged as waste.

               #Waste
"Through the garbage collection system of
Mexico City it is possible to make an accurate
radiograph of the entire political system of the
republic, its power relations, their corrupt
situations, etc.."
                        Héctor Castillo Berthier




Waste is information.
"Through the garbage collection system of
Mexico City it is possible to make an accurate
radiograph of the entire political system of the
republic, its power relations, their corrupt
situations, etc.."
                        Héctor Castillo Berthier




Waste is information.
Recycling
         vs
Upcycling/downcycling
Recycling
      vs
 Reduce Reuse
Recovery Repair
 Rehabilitation
Waste is a relative concept.


Waste doesn't exist.


Waste has many scales/sizes/shapes.
Waste = People that work with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Waste picker, Cambridge MA, 2010
1. What is waste?

2. What can we do with waste?
3. Working collaboratively with waste?
2. What can we do with waste?

 A. Analyze + Visualize

 B. Reuse
A. Analyze + Visualize
  Multimedia approach: from objects to landscape




Trash Safari. Madrid, 2005
You are what you throw away. Benicassim, Spain. 2007
You are what you throw away. Benicassim, 2007 with Iris Giménez Gil
Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012 with Dietmar Offenhuber
Packaging
  Waste Packaging Index (WPI) =
                                      Total Weight of the product




Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012
Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012
How to visualize Madrid's Big Dig?




I ♥ M30. Madrid 2006 (Yo amo M30, with Areaciega and Sauro Pixels
Video trailer YO amo M30 http://youtu.be/hCpepJFR8rE
I ♥ M30. Madrid 2006
I ♥ M30. Madrid 2006
I ♥ M30. Madrid 2006. Video trailer 2 http://youtu.be/n7Y48k8TrV8
6000km.org. 2006-2012
Urb. Francisco Hernández. Seseña, Toledo.




 Ciduad de Valdeluz. Guadalajara, Spain.
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
6000km.org + meipi.org/6000km 2006-2011
6000km.org 2006-2011
PAU Ensanche de Vallecas.
PAU Ensanche de Vallecas.
PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. 2013
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. 2013
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
PAU Ensanche de Vallecas.
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Weymouth. MA. USA
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
http://mapknitter.org/maps/saugus-incinerator-landfill
http://basurama.org/transtrash/2011/10/19/saugus-ash-landfill-map/
http://basurama.org/transtrash/
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
http://meipi.org/cambridgewaste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
B. Reuse
Reusing materials
and public space
Juego Chachi. Leandro Lattes. 2005
Juego Chachi. Leandro Lattes. 2005
Spermöla = Yard sale in public space




Spermöla 2004, 2005, 2006
Spermöla 2004, 2005, 2006
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Free Shop.
Manresa, Spain. 2010
Free Shop.
Manresa, Spain. 2010
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
3. Working collaboratively with waste?
RUS RESIDUOS URBANOS SÓLIDOS
URBAN SOLID WASTE
RUS
A series of chained projects developed by
Basurama and the local cultural-social
collaborators of every iteration of the project.

Every time the project ended with an action or
intervention in the public space, usually
degraded, and was centered in working urban
waste (Basurama 2011).

Funded by the Spanish Agency for International
Development Cooperation (AECID) through the
Red de Centros Culturales de la Cooperación
Española in Latin America.
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Timeline of a RUS project

1. Research trip
    -Materials
    -Techniques and tools
    -Intervention spaces
    -Urban conflicts
    -Contact local agents: artists, neighbors, municipality.
2. Review information and pre-design
    -Establish a local main collaborator
3. Intervention trip
    -Production: materials, tools.
    -Design and co-design: iterations depending on
     negotiations, materials and actors
    -Construction: Workshop and prototype with locals
    -Action/intervention/installation
    -Unmount.
RUS is based on:
-Reactivation of public space

-Local community

-Waste

-Reuse
Public Space

-In danger/threaten
-Inadequate or poor maintenance
-Privatization
-Lack of use
-Abandondment
Local Community

-Wide range of stakeholders
-Different involvement:
 punctual support to full
 Involvement
Waste

-Source of information
-Low cost
-Location: harvest map
-Value vs Price
Reuse

Ubiquity of industrialized products
RUS Asunción. Paraguay. 2008 with Sonia Carísimo and Francisco Tomboly
RUS Asunción. Paraguay. 2008 with Sonia Carísimo and Francisco Tomboly
RUS Asunción + Varsaw 2010
Varsaw 2010
RUS Buenos Aires. Todos somos cartoneros (We are all waste pickers) 2009
RUS Buenos Aires. Guide to create cooperatives. With Eloisa Cartonera.
RUS Buenos Aires. Guide to create cooperatives. With Eloisa Cartonera.
La ciudad de los niños. Cabanyal, Valencia (2009) with Arquitectura se mueve.
RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua   Photos: Quinua
RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua
Video: Juan Andres Mancuello http://youtu.be/v3uM1cNpOMc
RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
RUS Mexico City. 2008
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Car Tires
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
RUS LIMA
SELF MADE AMUSEMENT “GHOST
TRAIN” PARK
Initial research
Harvest map
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Uncompleted Metropolitan railway.




Foto: Sara Fernández Deustch
“El Tren fantasma” (ghost train)

-Elevated metropolitan railway project
-Started construction in 1986
-Opened 10km in 1990.
-For 20 years abandoned elevated
infrastructure.
-Promised public transportation system
that never arrived.
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Collaborators

-Christians Luna (visual artist)
-Sandra Nakamura (visual artist)
-Camila Bustamante (graphic designer)
-El Cartón (architecture students collective)
-C.H.O.L.O. (artist collective based on Lima suburbs)
-El Cartón (architecture students collective)
-Playstationvagon (graffiti writers/urban artists)
-El Codo (graffiti writer/urban artist)
-Motivando Corazones collective (non profit
 organization)
-María Pía Raschio and Diego Alonso -Rossell (artist)
-Local group of boy scouts
-Surquillo District Municipality
RUS Lima, Peru. 2010
RUS Lima, Peru. 2010
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
Aucahuasi. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tren_Eléctrico_viaducto_inconcluso.jpg
C.H.O.L.O.
Parque Autoarmable (Self made playground)
“Nueva Esperanza” in Pachacutec, Ventanilla.




Developed by C.H.O.L.O., Christians Luna y
the community of sector C1 de Pachacutec
                                             Photos: C.H.O.L.O.
Parque Autoarmable Nueva Esperanza. Lima
                                     Photos: C.H.O.L.O.
… and now, what's going on in Basurama?
Long term involvement.




Autobarrios. San Cristobal de los Ángeles, Madrid. 2013
Real estate bubble in São Paulo. Brazil. 2013
Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
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