Experimenta Design 09, Setembro 2009, Lisboa
Reflectimos pouco na falta de sustentabilidade causada pelo objecto de consumo.
Não há tempo, "just do it... fast". A economia tem que crescer! Não podemos cair em deflação, "Yes we can"! Nunma sala contaminada por centenas de rãs de cerâmica, o público é convidado a intervir no espaço através da compra dos objectos, ajudando à sua consequente extinção. No acto da compra cada peça é substituída por uma nota de 5€. As notas ficarão coladas na parede e vão permitir uma visualização metafórica do consumo de objectos e da consequente perda de biodiversidade.
Experimenta Design 09, September 2009, Lisbon
We reflect little in the absence of sustainability caused by consumption. No time, "just do it ... fast." "Yes we can!" There is no time, just do it ... fast. The economy has to grow!.... We can not fall into deflation, "Yes We Can" ... Do not look too much on the consequences! Consume to maintain your lifestyle ... and in the end consume to destroy it.
In our days the product cycles are ridiculously short, many products are out this week and disappear the next. It is hard to believe that all are consumed ... It is hard to believe that after completing its mission (if they come to carry it at all) they will be recycled.
In a room contaminated by hundreds of ceramic frogs, the public is invited to intervene through the purchase of the objects, helping its consequent extinction.
Each piece is replaced by a 5€ note. The notes will be on the wall and will allow a metaphorical view of the way we consume objects and the consequent loss of biodiversity. When we buy can we really evaluate the environmental impact of our consumption decisions?
The exploitation of raw materials, the manufacture, the distribution, the marketing ... in this complex web the harmful impacts to the environment and to human dignity end up diluted.
In short, we are all constantly guilty and apologized for creating and participating in unsustainable patterns of consumption ...
Why Frogs?
"More than half of reptiles (59%) and about half of amphibians (42%) from Europe are declining, and are more threatened than birds and mammals," Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. The daily loss of biodiversity is a proven fact that has reached levels not seen since the end of the Cretaceous, some 65 million years. Looking specifically for the class of amphibians they are facing a mass extinction. Global warming, habitat destruction, introduction of exotic species, commercial exploitation and water pollution resulting from human development are causes that work together to destroy the planet's amphibians.In the last decade a fungus was identified that exponentially accelerated the death of the world population of this class of animals. The scientific community believes that the pandemic began in the '40s, when African clawed frogs immune to the fungus were transported to the world in order to be used in laboratory research. When the balance of a habitat is broken or contaminated by the introduction of exotic species, which ride in boxes of raw materials or imported products, the causes can be catastrophic. The most serious effects can end in the destruction of these areas or in the rapid decline of widespread populations.
When we consume do we equate this meshed factors? We must start to...
