What they have in common plastic bags and textiles?
One answer lies in the project BAGS Across the Globe Ann Savageau, Associate Professor of Design at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis).
In 2006 Ann Savageau holds an undergraduate course on sustainability and doing a search on the material begins to realize the substantial environmental impact caused by the many consumer products created by designers and decides to teach the next generation of designers to create products that can improve the planet instead of adding more waste in landfills.
Since consumption of plastic bags out of control and the amount of junk textile product in the campus faculty in 2008 founded a project called BAG Across the Globe in order to raise public awareness on the environmental impact of bags and provide a sustainable alternative and beautiful to behold as the reusable bags.
To achieve these objectives have been created by 160 students, all different bags that were sent to 80 people in two copies. Beneficiaries were required to hold a bag and the other to give to friends to spread the message.
Ann Savageau estimates that over 200 people participated in BAGS Across the Globe and were also involved elementary school students in London and design students from other universities in Colombia, the Universidad Pontificia of Javerianna Cali.
The bags were made by 11 students of design schools and the teacher and with the help of other students which they have contributed to the site and the logo of the initiative. In particular, they have worked for several months to prepare the bags and materials that will be displayed in an exhibition which opens on 11 January next year entitled "Designing to reduce waste."
Questa mostra vedrà anche alcune installazione come un tornado di oltre un migliaio di sacchetti che rappresentano la quantità di sacchetti consumata da due persone in un anno in California e una pietra di plastica di trenta chili trovata nello stomaco di un cammello che ha causato la morte dell'animale. Anche i cammelli, animali ruminanti, mangiano sacchetti e corde di plastica che si calcificano formando delle pietre che occludono lo stomaco.
Anche gli studenti del corso di design della moda hanno adottato il progetto e creeranno una propria serie di borse riutilizzabili con tessuti di recupero raccolti nel campus che venderanno per raccogliere fondi per la loro sfilata annuale.
Per saperne di più visita il sito del progetto.
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