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ASSIGNED: DU alt-energy redux
Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of catadores — or garbage pickers. The catadores are the ultimate marginalized population; unemployed in any traditional sense of the word, they resort to picking valuable recyclable materials from the garbage thrown away by those in Brazil more fortunate than themselves. But they display remarkably good spirits and camaraderie in the face of their lot in life, forming friendships and, in the case of the elderly Valter, declaring the crucial and meaningful role they play in remediating the results of the modern culture of overconsumption and careless disposal. Under the leadership of the young, charismatic picker Tião, they have even created a co-operative to pool their labor and resources to maximize their income.
HOMEWORK
- WEEKLY BLOG ENTRY ON CONSUMPTION
- MATERIALS TO DO A 2-WEEK STUDY ON
- SPREADSHEET TO TALK ABOUT PLASTICS/MICRO-PLASTICS
- TRACK PLASTIC CONSUMPTION FOR A FEW WEEKS (2 WEEKS)
- IDENTIFY TYPES OF PLASTIC CONSUMPTION (PLASTIC CODE ON PACKAGING)
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single-use plastic
- TWO ENTRIES IN THE BLOG (ONE FOR EACH WEEK)