This document proposes creating public spaces that can be transformed using discarded objects to engage youth and communities. It notes that human consumption and waste have doubled in recent decades, straining the planet's resources. An artist is suggested to collect trash and old objects to create sculptures, furniture, and toys through workshops held on weekends. These activities would involve children, parents, artists, local authorities, NGOs and sponsors, and use a mobile community workshop box to create objects anywhere. The goal is to have fun, learn, preserve the environment, and work together while discovering new ways to reuse trash.

1. OLD OBJECTS NEW SPACES
BETTER YOUTH FOR A BETTER WORLD
CALL FOR ACTION Team leader MIA

2. All began 200 years ago with the industrial revolution
When machineries replaced human labor and fossil fuels became our
main production source
This made us able to produce more … And be able to easily
in a shorter amount of time satisfy our daily needs
Which had a major effect on human population growth, resource
consumption and waste production

3. How big are these effects on our planet’s scale???
Human consumption has doubled in the The average American produces about 2kg of
last 30 years and continues waste a day, 13 kg a week and 726 kg a year.
to accelerate with 1.5 percent per year.
Each year in the European Union
Between 1990 and 1995, the alone we throw away 1.3 billion
amount of tones of waste. This amounts to
waste generated in Europe about 3.5 tones of solid waste for
increased by 10% every man, woman and child.
1 billion people in 1804
6 billion people in 1999 In the past three decades 1/3 of
7 billion people in 2010 the planet’s resources has been
And with a growth of consumed.
75 million people/year
we will reach
9 billion people by 2046 Humanity ecological footprint has
increased to 125% of global carrying
capacity and could rise to 170% by 2040.
Sources: the United Nations, Population Division; the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Environmental Protection Agency;
European Commission focus on waste management; Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism

4. HOW CAN WE CUT THIS CHAIN
AND MAKE PEOPLE STOP FOR A WHILE ?

5. By creating a public space that can change it’s appearance
when people need it
WHO WILL START THIS?
An artist/craftman who knows how to give SCULPTURES
a new life to apparently useless obects URBAN FURNITURE
TRASH
DECORATION OBJECTS
GARBAGE RECYCLING REUSE
INVENTIONS
USED OBJECTS
TOYS AND GAMES FOR
HOW? By helding lectures,
public debates, workshops, THE CHILDREN
expositions, demonstrations...
WHEN? During the weekends,
in the afternoon or evening
FOR WHOM? For all the
children who live in the
neighbourhood, no matter
their social status.

6. Who is involved in this change and how?
•By interacting with the inhabitants
•By collecting their waste and old and knowing their thoughts and
objects needs
•By providing the authorizations •By mediating the relationship
•By sharing tools and objects with
the community needed to allow the activities inhabitants – local authorities
happen in the public space
•By participating in the workshops
•By promoting the events
•By creating new objects
•By organizing competitions between
the neighbourhoods
NGO’S
CHILDREN LOCAL
AND PARENTS AUTHORITIES
ARTISTS
•By holding exhibitions in the SPONSORS
neighbourhood’s public space
•By coordinating free recycling
workshops in the neighbourhood
•By coordinating debates about new
ways of recycling/reuse our trash •By donating tools and materials
necessary for this workshop
•By promoting the events

7. WITH THE HELP OF AN ARTIST
AND A SIMPLE “COMMUNITY” BOX
MOBILE, SUSTAINABLE (NO ENERGY CONSUMPTION, NO CO2 EMISSIONS,
REUSED MATERIALS – WOOD, IRON ETC.), HUMAN POWERED, LIGHT
WEIGHT, RELATIVELY FAST, INDEPENDENT OF TRAFFIC JAMS

8. A “COMMUNITY” BOX
THAT CAN GO
WHEREVER
AND WHENEVER
YOU NEED IT
AND CAN CREATE NEW
“MAGICAL” OBJECTS, WITH
THE CHILDREN’S HELP.

9. What will the youth experience by participating to these
activities?
The FUN of spending free time with family and friends.
The joy of CREATING an object with one’s own hands.
The sense of PRESERVING our environment.
The pleasure of WORKING together.
The act of DISCOVERING news ways of recycling.
The benefits of informal LEARNING.
A new way of VOLUNTEERING and creating a social network.

10. MIHALACHE ALINA MIHAELA
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism
Bucharest, Romania