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The Infernal Cycle: From E-Waste Awareness to Artistic Action

At the PACT-Zollverein residency, we confronted a silent crisis: the devastating journey of electronic waste. While Europe champions green policies, the truth is that obsolete material is often illegally shipped to the Global South, a greenwashing tactic that violates the Basel Convention, which bans e-waste exportation. The consequences are dire, with informal recyclers risking their lives in toxic conditions and […]

The Economy of Life: From Ancestral Alternatives to the Hacker Ethos for a New Paradigm

Our system of unlimited growth is causing a collapse at the social, political, economic, and ecological levels. In a world of limited resources, development coupled with the imperative of growth-productivity-consumerism is simply not sustainable. It is, in essence, the economy of death. Yet, we human beings have inhabited this planet for a long time and have developed other, non-capitalist forms […]

Microplastics in e-waste

On Wednesday 15 January, we organised a workshop on microplastics with Abdoulaye Sene and Carolina García Cataño. In this workshop, we wanted to tackle the issue of microplastics because they are little known and yet they have a major impact on the environment and health. We ended up talking about a continent of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, i.e. a […]

Techno-colonial map

On 11 December 2024, as the last activity of the year, we organised a workshop on the visualisation of the techno-colonial map. On this occasion, we wanted to introduce the notion of techno-colonialism, specifically linked to the extraction, production and transport of electronic waste. We always kept in mind the objective of creating links between the different stages of colonialism, […]