Rethinking waste and the logics of disposability: Compound 13 lab (2014-2020) [multi-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3370
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Book chapters, a film, an event and contextualising information.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2021
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5174507.v3
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- Rethinking Waste was set to culminate in a 5-day event at G5A Mumbai, due to take place in April 2020. The outcomes of this gathering were to be consolidated into many chapters of the book: Waste Work: The Art of Survival in Dharavi, featuring contributions by participating artists and the project's core academic team, due to be released October/November 2020. Covid-19 forced cancellation of the G5A live event. Due to the role this played in the book, cancellation had direct knock on effects to the publishing schedule. Publication is now anticipated for June 2021, with the ISBN 9780993551178.
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Rethinking Waste and the Logics of Disposability [AH/S005897/1] is an GCRF/AHRC funded interdisciplinary research project about waste, work, education and survival within Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest informal settlement. At the centre of the project is Compound 13 Lab; an experimental learning and make space situated in Dharavi’s 13th Compound where 80% of Mumbai’s hard waste is recycled where up to 300,000 rag-pickers supply over 40,000 people employed in grassroots recycling micro-enterprises, working in risky and unsanitary conditions.
Working in collaboration with community partner ACORN Foundation, Rethinking Waste builds on interdisciplinary work undertaken as part of Parry’s PhD (2012-15), and the GCRF/AHRC follow-on for impact and engagement project Resources of Hope: giving voice to underprivileged communities in India [2016-2018, AH/P00637X/1]. These projects explored the politics of media representation and roles played by participatory arts and media practices in giving voice to communities experiencing marginalization, deprivation and exclusion.
Rethinking Waste supports discrete outputs within a programme of work between 2016- 2020. The Lab offers disadvantaged young people (18-25) living in informal settlements access to current technologies in digital film and media, 3D design and digital fabrication. Using principles of creative and participatory pedagogy, the team has co-designed an ecological living curriculum, for and with young people growing up without access to formal education. An artist/designer residency programme generates live-projects and learning exchange mechanisms that support a creative learning. The lab also enables a platform for the expertise, knowledge and voices of those working in the informal waste management industry and their young people to be listened to. The combined outputs contained in this portfolio, taken together, represent an ongoing body of globally significant research that sheds light on the impact technologies of the digital city are having on the everyday lives of the urban poor.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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