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Extramuros – Atelier de recyclage
Extramuros est un atelier de recyclage urbain, planté au coeur d’une décharge Veolia afin d’être au coeur même de l’entreprise de recyclage et de profiter instantanément des matériaux mis à disposition.
De plus, l’entreprise intègre une démarche sociale avec une politique de jobs d’insertion.
Elle permet ainsi de donner une nouvelle image à des déchets et parfois de les réintégrer dans un cadre supérieur à celui d’origine (cf photo.)
un nouvel ordinateur
E-waste blocks
Bucky’s fly’s eye dome… with tires!
Today students were also working on building a fly’s eye dome / shelter out of tires (gathered from garages around Paris!). The idea was to imagine/experiment/prototype how to upcycle all the tires to be found around the digital dump. Two pictures – can’t wait to see how this holds:
Agbogbloshie Storyboard
In class this afternoon we worked on a storyboard that will lead to a compelling output… Get ready for ESA’s famous Nuit Spéciale!!! Here are some pix:
Distance mid-review
Thank you Dk Osseo-Asare for your input.
MESH confab: Behance Portfolio Review at Hub Accra
Had a lot of fun at Hub Accra this weekend, sharing work, feedback and inspiration with the creative crowd as part of world-wide Behance Portfolio Reviews (better pics here). The event was organized by Hassan Salih — the force behind the Accratopia project — and previewed his new venture MESH. Gave a quick intro to AMP, made this anigif and started recruiting awesome people who like to make things to get involved with building the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform.
Agbogbloshie’s Catalogue
Re-vegetate 2.0
As announced in a previous post, the idea here is to recycle old TV cases to create a soilless agriculture in Agbogbloshie.
Here are the different steps to create a Re-vegetating TV.
STEP 1
Put sand and soil in a TV case so it allows plants to grow in a “healthy middle”.
STEP 2
The idea here is to protect plants from acid rain and to create a water reserve.
We use for that corrugated iron (easily findable on site) to separate two different areas. Water so will be filtered.
STEP 3
To complete the TV case, we add it a water pump made with iron tubes.
Easy to make, it will allow farmers to pump “healthy” rain water to water plants. According to seasons, that TV case will be self-sufficient to grow plants.
STEP 4
Here is a “blueprint” of how to use the water pump.
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