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Reclaiming Waste. A Living Experiment in Silkeborg

Project Description

The aim of the project is to seek out alternative forms of bio-waste handling following the Danish national strategy of "Zero Waste" in which households have to recycle twice as much bio-waste in 2022.

The project will carry out a small scale experimental-interventionist and co-creative research and development project, a so-called "living experiment' with the aim of generating ideas on and developing bio-waste solutions as a participatory process between citizens in a local community, artists and designers, professional practitioners, and researchers from various disciplines.

The project was ended in April 2016 - you can read the final report here

Project Partners

  • Louise Brix Jacobsen: Post.doc (Centre for Fictionality Studies, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Faculty of ARTS, AU
  • Anders Kruse Ljungdalh: Postdoc. (Research Program in Learning for Care, Sustainability and Health, Department of Education, Faculty of ARTS, AU)
  • Jeppe Læssøe: Professor (Research Program in Learning for Care, Sustainability and Health, Department of Education, Faculty of ARTS, AU)
  • Henrik Skov Nielsen: Professor (Centre for Fictionality Studies, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Faculty of ARTS, AU)
  • Carsten Stage: Associate Professor (Research program in Cultural Transformations, rethinkIMPACTS2017: Participatory Culture, Technology and Urban Life, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Faculty of ARTS, AU)
  • Marianne Thomsen: PhD, Senior Scientist (Sustainable Research Flows, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, AU)
  • Anne Sophie Witzke: Ph.D Student (PhD research title is Atmospheric disturbances, Research program in Humans and Information Technology and part of the interdisciplinary AU center Participatory Information Technology, PIT, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Faculty of ARTS, AU)
  • Marianne Zandersen: Dr.rer.pol. (Environmental Economics, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, AU)