Local Discontinuity
A holistic proposal to locally turn bio waste into biodegradable alternatives to single-use plastic.
A holistic proposal to locally turn bio waste into biodegradable alternatives to single-use plastic.
This collaboration with ReFlow Vejle set out to envision scenarios empowering citizens and companies to cut down on the use of single-use plastic. Local Discontinuity explores the potential of replacing those anachronistic materials with upcycled organic resources: creating new local materials, reducing waste flows and generating at the same time positive social and economical impacts on local communities.
ReFlow is a Horizon 2020 framework looking at the circularity of resources within urban systems. Its aim is to identify and trigger better practices regarding the use and circularity of these resources through citizen engagement. Several european cities joined the project as pilots, each of them focusing on a different type of resource: the Danish city of Vejle chose to work towards the circularity of plastics.
I initiated a collaboration with the pilot in Vejle with the intention of testing an approach inspired by the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability promoted fx. by Enzo Manzini. I was determined to adopt a holistic perspective in order to investigate enablers and barriers towards the emergence of local loops of circular economy.