Wastescapes

Lives and Afterlives of Trash

Sarah Nicita
MDes Ecologies 2023
Nuknik Lam
MDes Ecologies 2023
Harshika Bisht
MDes Ecologies 2023
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1 Rendering of organic and inorganic matter on the surface of 0.5e^(-0.1(x^2*y^2))*cos(2x)

This project explores relationships between time, objects and landscape creation. Sites of personal disposal and communal waste speak to different topographies of accumulation. We were inspired by the inverse relationship between personal trash disposal and communal sites of trash accumulation - how can notions of negative (less) and positive (more) space help with illustrating this story? When thinking about waste, what would happen if we considered the lifecycles of different types of matter? How could this help us imagine the wastescapes we are creating?

Project video
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2 Scape Inhabitors, Distribution, and Visual Entropy of Waste
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3 Rendering of organic and inorganic matter on the surface of 0.5e^(-0.1(x^2*y^2))*cos(2x)