Waste for Life - Damas

description

Waste for Life was a project that I completed during my mobility/exchange semester at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Spring of 2012. Our advanced studio sought to create product lines made of recycled HDPE bottles. These product lines would serve to inspire a partnering trash-picking co-op in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This project was in partnership with the non-profit, Waste for Life which is network of institutions that provide scholarly research and product development for social enterprises in the Third World.

"Our work is supported by teams from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial, Argentina; Queens University in Kingston, Ontario; the University of Naples, Italy; the University of Western Australia in Perth; the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Imperial College, London, The National University of Lesotho, Lesotho, Lerotholi Polytechnic, Lesotho, and dozens of individuals who share our commitment to seek innovative ways of challenging social and ecological injustices." —wasteforlife.org