After mainly digital work, we fabricated a physical sample of a bike-frame construction.
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Cluster 1 : BIKE-FRAMES | Collection
We have been collecting bicycles for the first set of building parts.
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In this type of mosaic floor, second-hand building elements are arranged in an interplay of given/found geometry and designed patterns.
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Even though Vienna’s waste management agency, the MA 48, according to their own information, is collecting around 2500 abandoned bicycles within the city borders per year, it has turned out to be unbelievably difficult to get hold of any. Once an object has been officially qualified as “trash” (meaning: ended up in a dumpster – which is quite self-evidently always owned by someone – or simply being touched by official “waste management” personnel it seems) it is near to impossible to declassify it as such, and save it from being burnt, shredded, or melted back into undefined formless matter.
“In fact, it has been shown that over 70 percent of the total waste generated in Germany is held as fractions in technological processes (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2015b). However, the ambitious, technological goals of the circular economy have led to a strong separation between the individual and the institutional level.
The established waste system with its regulations can therefore also be perceived as a closed “waste regime” (Gille, 2007, 9; Reno, 2009, 21).“*
Ritzmann, S. and Birkhäuser Verlag (2018) Wegwerfen, Entwerfen : Müll im Designprozess – Nachhaltigkeit in der Designdidaktik, p. 32. Basel.
But we might have finally found a loop-hole and also possible other sources; so Lukas and I won’t have to go “Bonnie & Clyde” to get us a sample set. And this is our first legally aquired specimen:
Research Lab Set-up
Within the tradition and in continuation of the previous project, we have started to set up our new research lab at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The first elements of the new infrastructure are large magnetic pin boards along the walls and a communal work and meeting table, all made exclusively from parts found around the university’s premises.
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Reading through Ákos Moravánszky’s incredibly dense article “Der Kreislauf der Bausteine…” in Eva Stricker, et.al., Bauteile wiederverwenden, 2021, I found this astonishing project from the 1970s..
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