Plastic bottles. An item that is accessible to all; carried around in our bags and then thrown away at leisure. As we had been speaking greatly about recycling and waste in the city, we felt that plastic bottles would be an interesting object to work with in a short amount of time.
The photographs before have been taken from around the Manchester School of Art. Reading the statistics, 27.5% of the waste found around campus is from plastic bottles, by far the highest waste product from the University.
The photographs before have been taken from around the Manchester School of Art. Reading the statistics, 27.5% of the waste found around campus is from plastic bottles, by far the highest waste product from the University.
The aim of the workshop was to de- and reconstruct the bottles, using a selective amount of tools, into an object of our choice. It was enjoyable to do an exercise that allowed us to all communicate and work as a group together, also to see how, as Textiles and Interactive Arts students, we engaged with the workshop differently. As a maker, I found it easy to engage with the 'making' and experimentation of the task, only made difficult by cutting my finger in the first few minutes of the workshop (we did say that the workshop could be dangerous for children). In comparison, it was apparent that some of the Interactive Arts students found it challenging to be given an object and be told to 'do' something with it, leading to frustration and annoyance. It just shows that people work differently.
