Artist residency at The Compound 13 Lab: Part of the AHRC funded Rethinking Waste Project

Dawson, Ian, Graham, Jeffrey and Parry, Ben (2020) Artist residency at The Compound 13 Lab: Part of the AHRC funded Rethinking Waste Project.

Abstract

Compound 13 Lab is a space for experimental design and learning. Our programme introduces design and media tools, audiovisual technologies, 3D design and digital fabrication to disadvantaged, marginalised citizens who because of their socio-economic status do not normally have access to these resources.
The materials and resources of Mumbai's recycling industry are the starting point for learning and teaching about ecological design and living solutions. The Lab offers young people access to these technologies through an experimental making space where issues of work, waste and survival in the 21st Century can be explored.
At the Lab, young people are placed at the centre of their own learning. They co-design and develop a bespoke ‘living curriculum’ that responds to their issues, addresses their needs and aids their future goals. The Lab is an emergent ‘maker space’ and takes up residency within Dharavi, an area of Mumbai that might be described as one of the largest informal aggregations of (re)maker and (re)manufacturing spaces on the planet.
During Dawson's residency a series of self portraits were created on the Labs 3D printer's and the spaces of the Gowdowns were mapped using SfM technologies.

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Author: Ian Dawson

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