Wastiary
A bestiary of waste
Edited by Michael Hennessy Picard, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Timothy Carroll, Jane Gilbert, and Nicola Miller
Wastiary, or Bestiary of Waste, is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academic language to compose a list of 35 short entries on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage and mixed media.
The book is a heterodox compendium of ‘beasts of waste’, playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animal. It conveys the message that various forms of waste and pollution have achieved a beast-like or untameable quality, at times pungently transferring to considerations of ‘the human’, or humans treated as waste.
Praise for Wastiary
‘Wastiary is a rich, stimulating and beautifully composed volume, not least courtesy of a very welcome emphasis on the visual. The comprehensiveness and variety of views, styles of writing, as much as disciplinary stances, and the embedded diversity of the book make for a recognisable intervention into waste/discard studies that can certainly capture the eye of the expert but also pique the appetite of the novice.’
Michele Acuto, University of Melbourne
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar is Lecturer (teaching) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Clare Melhuish and Nicola Miller
Introduction by Michael Hennessy Picard, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Timothy Carroll & Jane Gilbert
| for Strips of paper, by Nina Mathijsen
A for Architecture of ruins, by Jonathan Hill
B for Bomb ecologies, by Leah Zani
C for Capitalism (plastic), by Amanda Boetzkes
D for Data waste, by Roxana Vatanparast and Elettra Bietti
E for Excrement, by Franziska Neumann
F for Fire, by Stamatis Zografos
G for Ground up, by Onya McClousand
H for Hairs, by Robyn Adams
I for Identity, by Caitlin DeSilvey
J for Junk bonds, by David Sim
K for Kinship (chemical), by Angeliki Balayannis
L for Land waste, by Sonia Freire Trigo
M for Microbes, by Elaine Cloutman-Green
N for Nalu, by Melissa McCarthy
Ñ for Ñiquiñaque/extraÑo, by Adriana Laura Massidda and Hanna Baumann
O for Outsourcing, by Matthijs de Bruijne
P for Problem, by Bruno Vindrola-Padrós and Ulrike Sommer
Q for Queer liveliness/Queer matter/Queer toxin, by Mel Y. Chen
R for Rubble, by Adam Przywara
S for Space junk, by Alice Gorman
T for Time and Tower; Grenfell, by José Torero Cullen
U for Underground, by Luke Bennett
V for Vastus, by Véra Ehrenstein
W for Wasteland, by Miranda Griffin
X for Xenophobia, by Huda Tayob
Y for Yawning and Yearning, by Tatiana Thieme
Z for Zero waste, by Pushpa Arabindoo
* for Corona shapes, by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
1 for 1%, by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
2 for HS2, by Chia-Lin Chen
3 for From a 3rd World to included 3rds, by Lucy Bell
4&6 for 4th Industrial Revolution and 6th extinction by Everisto Benyera
5 for 5G, by Sy Taffel
7 for 7 dear things, by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
8 for Octopus, by Tina Beigi
9 for 9/11, by Michael Hennessy Picard
Epilogue, by Tamar Garb
Bibliography
‘Wastiary is a rich, stimulating and beautifully composed volume, not least courtesy of a very welcome emphasis on the visual. The comprehensiveness and variety of views, styles of writing, as much as disciplinary stances, and the embedded diversity of the book make for a recognisable intervention into waste/discard studies that can certainly capture the eye of the expert but also pique the appetite of the novice.’ Michele Acuto, University of Melbourne, Australia
Format: Open Access PDF
176 Pages
67 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2023
ISBN: 9781800085183
Publication: July 03, 2023
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