Discards by Design

Recovering Waste in the Making

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ID22004802
AuthorsFrancesca Borgo (0000-0001-5263-6412, University of St Andrews), Ruth Ezra (0000-0003-1335-824X, University of St Andrews)
Year2024
Volume31
Issue1
Pages5-25
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest 86th (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2153-5531 • E-ISSN: 2153-5558
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/735324
OpenAlexW4408928606
LanguageEN
References cited26

Art students today know the rules: no solvents in the trash, no clay down the drain, and don’t forget to cure that resin before you toss it. Premodern craftspeople had their own rituals of disposal, too—albeit ones driven more by economies of thrift than by environmental regulation or fire safety. This article explores the materiality, spatiality, and processing of waste in workshops past and present, focusing on two emblems, the shaving and the bin. Recovering waste in the making, we chart the axis of disposal from bench to floor, and back again, asking what it means for discards to fall up through the iterative feedback loops of process

Discards · Political science · Waste management · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Engineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions

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