Residuos Urbanos Sólidos (RUS)
Transforming urban waste into creative installations highlighting the potential of repurposing waste and engaging communities.
Initiator(s)
Basurama
Description
Residuos Urbanos Sólidos repurposed local waste in the context of an art installation at each location. In Lima, the group rehabilitated an abandoned railway, creating an amusement park along the tracks. In Miami school children made musical instruments out of car parts. Basurama also introduced the cheap plastic material PET into the traditional weaving methods of Cordoba, Argentina.
Goals
To be a forum for discussion and reflection on trash, waste and reuse. To study those phenomena inherent in the massive production of real and virtual trash in consumer society, providing points of view on the subject that might generate new thoughts and attitudes.
Beneficial outcomes
Local waste is transformed in useful installations or objects.
Location
Peru, US, Argentina, UK, Spain
Users
Collective Basurama, local organizations, Inhabitants
Maintained by
Basurama, Host institutions
Duration
2001- ongoing
Category
Scientific
Pedagogical
Politics
Urban Development
Economy
Environment
Social
