Here is a link to the summary published on Issuu
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.
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.
Map of Agbogbloshie
“Map showing the study area.” in Martin Oteng-Ababio, Electronic Waste Management Ghana – Issues and Practices (.pdf)
A conundrum is created as to whether e-waste recycling is an “economic boom or an
environmental doom”. The nexus becomes more complex particularly at Agbogbloshie, the hub of e-waste activities in Ghana, where there is nothing like “waste”; where every object, component, and material has “value”. On the daily basis, computers and televisions are regularly bought and sold, assembled, disassembled, and reassembled. They disintegrate into their constituent materials-plastics, glass,
and metals. Plastic printer cases are smashed with rudimentary tools including hammer, spanner, chisel and even the bare hands.
(p. 153)
E-waste ecosystem at Agbogbloshie
Agbogbloshie map
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