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title: "»old masters, young masters« | upcycling workshop"
date: 2019-05-03T14:24:00+02:00
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# »old masters, young masters« | upcycling workshop

 - based onmy work »[the nature of things](https://www.juligudehus.net/en/the-nature-of-things-ii)«
- materialbot­tles, cans, cups, caps, tubes, nets, clas­sic wire coat hang­ers and the like, thor­ough­ly cleaned and dis­in­fect­ed: all the work­ing mate­r­i­al I pro­vide for the work­shop is offi­cial­ly meant to be recycled.
- toolsto be brought along – cut­ter, robust (nail, kitchen or sim­i­lar) scis­sors as well as tools for pierc­ing holes (can piercer, etch­ing nee­dle, awl or sim­i­lar, option­al­ly large knit­ting / cro­chet nee­dles, and wire
- techniquesdrilling, punch­ing, cut­ting, slit­ting, tear­ing, bend­ing, fold­ing, creas­ing, crum­pling, crimp­ing, coil­ing, bak­ing, glue­ing, tuck­ing, pluck­ing, sticking
- duration3 to 7 hours
- attendancefrom 5 years, up to 80 participants
 
- [Collage](https://www.juligudehus.net/en/collage)
- [collecting](https://www.juligudehus.net/en/collecting)
- [Workshops](https://www.juligudehus.net/en/workshops)
 
  Our planet is drowning in waste. Worldwide, we dump 3.5 million tonnes every day. So, in this workshop, we cut waste. We crunch it, punch it and squeeze it. And then we spear it. Rests of our consumer world experience a new start as small works of art.

Perhaps you too have occasionally been struck by the odd flora and fauna of modern consumer goods? On one hand, we are fascinated by the diversity of innovation and design in ever newer products. On the other, we are painfully aware of the environmental aspects. In navigating this fine line, in this workshop, we try to make recyclables blossom.

## old masters, new masters

In this workshop, children and adults construct flowers from plastic waste that I cleaned and pre-sorted – which is not that easy without glue!

Conversations about our everyday life, the components of which we recognize here, accompany our work. Soon it turns out that our latent product design and brand knowledge far outweighs the knowledge of herbs, flowers and trees for most of us. At the same time, we become aware of how much we have internalized the construction principles of plants and how many design details of products seem to be borrowed from nature.

Depending on the context, the material can also be used to create other kinds of fantasy objects, such as buildings, set designs, devices, furniture, vehicles, jewelry, play figures, aliens, or animals.

I am looking forward to come to your institution, or event. Just [send me a mail](mailto:mail@juligudehus.net) so we can arrange details and dates.

 

Rose is a rosy is a rosary is a grocery is a waitrose.

 

Gertrude Stein

 

  

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