While in Berlin, Germany for HKW’s Participatory Planet project, myself and other participants visited an ALBA sorting facility on the east side of the city. The site sorts ~140,000 tonnes per year of waste metals, […]
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For a library system of electronics
More electronic devices are manufactured than are purchased. Supply exceeds demand. That’s a problem for brands because a surplus of goods can lead to falling prices for them. To stop that from happening brands create […]
Software Centricity
Discard studies offers an important concept for tech criticism: defamiliarization. The concept comes from the worlds of art and theatre and basically refers to some sort of device that helps make the familiar or taken […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 