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Chainwork

Title: Chainwork Duration: Infinite loop. Author: Basurama in collaboration with Johan Stevenson. Technique: Two DVD players into loop. Year: 2008 The videoinstalation has been in: Permanent...

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Dissecting Objects

Analyzing and visualizing how much waste we buy everyday. Co-organized with Dietmar Offenhuber in the Guggenheim Lab at Berlin. How much waste do we buy? We’ve been asking ourselves the same question...

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Approaches to waste. 2001-2011

Please upgrade your browser Approaches to waste. 2001-2011 Talk at the seminar “From Landscapes of Extraction to Creative Industries of Organic Matter and Waste” at Graduate School of Design Harvard,...

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USW Cairo: Lighting Cairo

Project: USW Cairo: Ramadan lights is a project for the design and construction of low cost prototypes to activate public spaces in the city of Cairo. The prototypes were constructed during a workshop...

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Local Squares. Leonardo partnership 2012

European cities are currently facing massive challenges that range from growing urbanization to an increased cultural diversity of their own population. The way urban planning chooses to address these...

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Plastic Bang! Kok

  According to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration  every day more than 600,000 plastic bags are used in Bangkok (a city with over 9 million inhabitants). Most of this bags become a residue in an...

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“Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste” at Harvard

On April 3rd, 2013  we gave a talk about Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities/Barker Center invited  Cultural Agents Initiative and...

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Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste at Reclaim+Remake...

Please upgrade your browser Talk at the Reclaim+Remake 2013 Symposium at the CUA University, Washington DC, USA, on April 13th 2013 to present the paper Basurama: a framework for designing...

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Autobarrios / Self Made Neighborhoods

THE PROJECT Autobarrios – Self-made-neighborhoods- helps to create an iniciative for urban community development: it uses the collective construction of an urban imaginaire as a tool for empowering the...

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In Lo

Any plastic lasts longer that eternal love, in every tale we should be able to make desires: turn pumpkins into carriages or stones in strawberry and cream tarts … or turn discarded plastics in glass...

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In Lo

Inflatable bubble monster made out of plastics discarded during the mounting of the  Istanbul 2012 Design Biennial. Installation for the Istanbul Design Biennial 2012 at the Galata Greek School. The...

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Installation in the Anciennes Abattoires of Casablanca

 Basurama participated in the urban arts festival ” Zancat ” in Casablanca ( Morocco) with a workshop – installation in the Anciennes Abattoires , former slaughterhouse turned into a cultural space and...

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Autobarrios SanCristobal / Self Made Neighborhoods

Autobarrios was launched in January 2012 in the Madrid suburb of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles. The goal of this project was not to create a new responsibility for the neighborhood but to join in to...

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25 emotional experiments to test the response of landscape to less...

You can see the 25 emotional videos at: ociomenosconsumista.tumblr.com   Made during our stay at the Baladre artists residence, part of Lo Pati Art Center. Located in Balada, in the Ebro Delta,...

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Balloon mapping workshop in Castellón

At Basurama we were invited to participate in the 7 000 000 000 art exhibition curated by arlandismarroqui in the EACC (Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló), and we develop a project to fit the...

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a Dress for Lady Gaga

The idea was born after loading Raquel’s car with thousands of earphones assigned by Renfe (Spanish Railway Company) to carry out a reuse workshop coordinated by basurama and entupunto. We were...

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IceBreaker – Action developed for the program “Instructions of the Year XIII”

Action developed for Antipodes Café in Oslo, Norway In order to celebrate the bicentennial of “Instructions of the Year XIII“, the mandate brought by the representatives from the Oriental Province to...

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USW Niamey: let’s do it together!

USW Niamey: let’s do it together! is an educational training project for the design and construction outdoor games (self-made playgrounds) with local resources. 60 volunteers from 12 cultural centers...

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Batumi and its self constructed outdoor itinerant cinema.

As a small bay, a space in the waterfront but  on a side of it, a place for something to happens. Batumi, Georgia, is a city on the Black Sea and summer booming destination for neighboring countries...

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Luxo é Lixo (Luxury is Trash). IN LO

With the occasion of the Third Meeting of Rectors in Rio de Janeiro, Banco Santander Foundation and Universia invited us to participate for creating a piece of art together with Brazilian university...

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