Upcycling waste materials from trade fairs for social purposes : a case study
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2019
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"The growing consumer industries and short-lived product cycles have transformed trade shows into more consumer driven and profit oriented events without consideration of environmental or social consequences. This paper focuses on the waste materials produced by the IFA exhibition, located in Berlin and executed annually by the corporation Messe Berlin. [...] As social designing is becoming an uprising topic and can be seen as a countermovement to society's consumer and social waste behavior this paper addresses that issue and focuses on the usability and qualities of those waste materials in order to up-cycle them creating redesigns for social purposes in public buildings. [...] The aim of the thesis is investigating the idea of social design and its outreach thus evaluating how and which waste materials from trade fairs can be used for social purposes instead of being thrown away. Based on those results a design proposal of how interior spaces could be redesigned to not only improve the aesthetic and psychological qualities of a social and public space, the Jobcenter Wedding, by using donation-based up cycled materials from trade fairs but also re-use, up-cycle and exhibit waste materials in the design, is raising awareness for societies waste behavior."