Superused food,
2012 Architects host
a freegan dinner
July 4, 2007
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Freegan designers trapped in a 2012 iPod ad.
Normally when architects invite you to dinner they don’t advertise that they’re planning on serving you trash. Completely unbound by convention, 2012 Architects held a freegan dinner last night and were rather loose-lipped about the fact that they didn’t spend one single euro-sous on the organic ingredients. The venue, a visual feast of appropriated material. The menu, a culinary ride in the Wayback Machine.
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Food and table design, 2012 Architects
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Not so much cop killer as soup bringer
The 3 course menu was made exclusively from vegetables, organically grown, not-so-organically distributed and then abandoned behind one of Rotterdam’s premier food boutiques, designated trash.
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Once you go black you never go back, squatter crockery
2012 Architects have distinguished themselves as experts in repurposing waste building materials in their architectural designs. Together with Ed van Hinte they published Superuse, (Constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows), a readable resource book on (waste) materials that I can highly recommend to every designer, architect and the students of these fields. Unlike other architect’s books we know that Smell Like Xtra Large, you will actually USE this book, it won’t just hang around as an inadvertent door jamb slash flower press. The Superuse website is an up-to-date project blog of exemplary materials appropriation.
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But the real treat was the unwarranted butt-nuzzling.
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Trash, it’s what’s for dinner.
- Superuse, the website
- Superuse, the book.
I say buy it. It’s € 19,50 well-spent. - 2012 Architecten
2012 Architects practice design in various disciplines; graphic design, lighting, pieces of furniture, interiors and buildings. We use materials previously defined as waste as a point of departure for our design work. - Recyclicity (in Dutch, unfortch - but you’ll get the pictch) This is a Dutch language recycling network designed to connect waste materials that could be used in building and interior design, to architects and designers. The emphasis is on decreasing the transport loop between waste and new (building) projects.
- Studio Hergebruik (Re-Use Studio)
- Atelier Bomdesign: billbirdhouses, booklamps etc…
- More Culiblog images from the dinner
- Stephen Colbert weighs in on Freegans sayin’,
‘Way to stick it to the Man, Freegans’ - The New York Times article on Freegans that got everyone so giddy
- Culiblog weighs in on Freegans
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Jules hands Chef Manuela the phone. Busy busy.
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