UN-MINING
Workshop
School
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Design Campus DresdenLab Air addresses aerial issues and explores the systematic impacts of our daily choices. Questions such as “Where does material come from?” and “How far did it travel?” are central to this exploration, along with considerations of air-pollution emissions.
Annemarie Piscaer (NL)
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The tableware is created in 5 colors, depending of the amount of dust that is used in the glaze. Over ten years a citizen of Rotterdam breathes in about one gram of particulate matter. This is the amount that is used to glaze one coffee cup or plate. The same is done with the amounts of dust that a person breathes in 25, 45, 65 or 85 years. The city where the dust was collected and its quantity is marked on each piece. ‘RTM 45’ stands for 45 years of breathing in Rotterdam.Smogware, photo: Roel van Tour