Wasted Cities: A Critical Look into Our Waste and Our Resources

Over the past the cross-academic course “Wasted Cities: A Critical Look into Our Waste and Our Resources” guided and developed by Dr Jyothi Thrivikraman in collaboration with students its students explored the manifold ways in which we encounter in our daily existence and its often often invisibilised nature in the urban space. The outcomes of this collective research will be presented on the 24th through the launch of Zine, capturing the creative and academic outputs of the students and a surrounding evening program.   

Over the course of six weeks, the students explored the role of discourses and practices of waste in patterns of injustice and segregation; concepts of pollution governing debates on sustainability and the urban environment; formal and informal labours of garbage management and questions of stigma and rights to the city; global waste circulations and capitalist globalisation; the transformation of value and meaning involved in diverse processes of recycling; waste-based social movements and rebellion through disorder; the art of rubbish.

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