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Dissecting objects

Dietmar Offenhuber + Pablo Rey Mazón (Basurama)

Guggenheim LAB. Berlin.

July 19th 2012

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Hands on workshop.

Straightforward methods:

  • scale
  • products + waste
  • data
  • photo
  • projector

No programming needed!

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Link to resources:

http://bit.ly/dissectwaste

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How much waste do we buy?

Wie viel Mühl kaufen wir?

Scale example

Waage Beispiel

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Production = Waste

Chainwork. Basurama

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Waste doesn't exist

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Waste

Waste is what is worthless or unused for human purpose.

It is a lessening of something without an apparently useful result.

Wasting Away. Kevin Lynch

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Waste

Natural resources that have been wasted.

Alfonso del Val

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Recycling

vs

Upcycling/Downcycling

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who we are?

Basurama (Pablo Rey)

+ Dietmar Offenhuber

waste interested people

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Dietmar Offenhuber

Trans Track http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

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Basurama

Maps:

Cambridge Waste map meipi.org/cambridgewaste

Ruhr Gebiet map

Chainwork... already used?

Cambridge Waste Map meipi.org/cambridgewaste

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RUS Mexico

basurama.org/b08_rus_mexico.htm

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The power data of visualization

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The power data of visualization

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Daniel Canogar

Acumulation

as metaphore.

No data involved.

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Chris Jordan

Number of disposable cups Americans use every 15 minutes.

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Ursus Wehrli

Be tidy!

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Data

Who makes them?

What for?

How?

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#opendata

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Data wnat to be free

Open Street Map

Wikipedia

Galaxy Zoo

Human Genome Project

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What if we can add our own data?

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What if we use our own data?

and share them?

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How much waste do we buy?

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Exercise 1.

How much waste do we buy?

Wie viel Mühl kaufen wir?

Hands on!

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Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/packwasteindex

  1. Weigh: weight of product.
  2. Weigh: packaging.
  3. Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/packwasteindex�generates PWI
  4. Graphics + Visualization with objects

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Packaging Waste Index (PWI)

PWI = Packaging / Total Weight

  • Weigh: weight of product.
  • Weigh: packaging.
  • Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/packwasteindex�generates PWI
  • Graphics + Visualization with objects

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Is it enough to use

weight as only value?

Find more data...

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

aka Ökobilanz, Life Cycle Analysis etc.

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Ein systematischer Ansatz um die Umwelt- auswirkungen von Produkten zu beurteilen

Sammlung verschiedener Betrachtungsweisen auf Produktion und Entsorgungsprozesse

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Gemeinsamer Nenner

Energieintensität (kJ)

Emissionen (Treibhausgase CO2 Equivalent)

Materialflüsse (generierte Giftstoffe etc.)

Kosten (direkt, indirekt)

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Prozesse

Upstream (Produktion)

verwendete Materialien

Produktionsprozesse

Transportwege

Downstream (Entsorgung)

Sammlung

Transportwege

Verwertung, Entsorgung

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Daten

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)

genormte Liste aller möglichen Prozesse

woher kommen die Daten?

was ist gemessen, was grob geschätzt?

Eigeninteressen der Datenquellen?

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LCA Absolut vs. Relativ

Absolute Daten allein sind oft wenig hilfreich.

Vergleichende LCA beurteilt zwei oder mehr Alternativen.

Welche Szenarien sind vorzuziehen?

z.B. Deponierung vs. Verwertung. Wie gross ist der Unterschied wirklich?

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Exercise 2.

How much money cost the waste we buy?

List of scrap material prices

http://bit.ly/scrapp

Plastic bottle prices

http://bit.ly/botlep

General packaging �http://bit.ly/packagep

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Exercise 3.

How is our waste treated?

Amount of waste recycled/burnt/landfilled in Germany, by material.

http://bit.ly/abfallbilanzd

Amount of waste recycled/burnt/landfilled in Germany; by material. http://bit.ly/abfallbilanz

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Exercise 4.

LCA visualization of objects.