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D3 Lab: ‘Nighthawk’ TRASHformation Presentation
For the unveiling of our TRASHformation sculpture at Nightingale Middle School, our participants helped dismantle the sculpture and carry it across campus to its new home in the lunch area. This location makes a perfect nesting ground for our bird since it is made mainly of lunch-related materials (like food trays and chip bags), it serves as an eye-catching reminder for the student body to recycle those items after they eat. TRASHformation participants were awarded RuckusRoots T-shirts, and presented to the rest of the student body and administration about how and why we built the sculpture once it was safely in place. Photos Courtesy of Monching Flores
TRASHformation at Legacy LA
RuckusRoots partnered with Legacy LA to create a TRASHformation sculpture with fourteen at-risk youth from the project housing community of Ramona Gardens in east LA. Legacy LA’s mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. This TRASHformation is a collaborative effort that reflects issues surrounding police-installed surveillance cameras in Ramona Gardens. Our piece explores themes of perspective: what the cameras see and what they don’t, the true Ramona Gardens (both positive and negative aspects) as seen through the eyes of our participants.
TRASHformation at Nightingale Middle School in the D3 Lab
RuckusRoots has joined forces with the D3 Lab at Nightingale Middle School to offer a TRASHformation program to underserved middle school students in the Cypress Park community of east Los Angeles. Learn more about the process by checking out our blog.
SF Green Festival After Party with the Recycle Tree
Our friends at the Sustainable Living Roadshow invited us to bring our ReCycle Tree up to SF for the Green Fest after party on November 11, 2012. SLR threw the event in their new venue, located in the Mission district. We met all kinds of new friends, and had a blast showing people how to create new leaves for our tree using recycled aluminum cans. Read all about our experience here.
The ReCycle Booth at Interbike
RuckusRoots was asked to create a booth made completely from recycled materials for the launch of The ReCycle at Interbike Expo in Las Vegas, Sept 19-21, 2012. The ReCylce is the world’s first bike with frame and fork made from 100% recycled aluminum content. Materials used include reclaimed plywood, hundreds of recycled aluminum cans, recycled paint, found furniture, scrap metal, recycled refrigerator doors, washing machine tubs and more. Read about the build process on the RuckusRoots blog.
TRASHion Show
A fundraiser and fashion show featuring clothing made from creatively recycled materials. Learn more.
Photos by Dan Krauss
TRASHformation at UWO
An interactive, improvisational art experience that turns campus-generated waste into a sustainably and collaboratively built art piece at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Learn more.
Bike Bash at UWO
Bike Bash is an interactive art and biking event that rethinks, rebuilds and re-imagines how you get from point A to point B. At the Univeristy of Wisconsin over Earth Week 2011, RuckusRoots turned donated bikes into functional, mobile art pieces and sustainability tools, including a DJ bike that plays music from soler-powered speakers, a pedal powered charging station for cell phones and laptops and more! Learn more.
AASHE 2012
We brought a mini TRASHformation to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s 2012 Conference: our ReCycle Tree with leaves made from recycled aluminum cans. Participants helped helping us by personalizing the leaves with their names or a drawing, and our tree grew into a true AASHE-based TRASHformation over the course of three days! Learn more.
Caravan Project
At Joshua Tree Music Festival (May 2011) RuckusRoots collaborated with Art Customs and local artists to create The Caravan Project, a live painting installation that explored and questioned the themes of travel, journey, and our pioneering, nomadic American roots. The installation was made out of recycled materials, provided stunning visual impact, thoughtful social commentary and much needed SHADE at this 3-day art and music event
Freedom of Speech Wall
Evoking our common kitchens, the “Freedom of Speech Wall” is a giant magnetic poetry wall made out of recycled refrigerator doors. Participants can easily arrange words to express their thoughts, or collaborate by building on an existing poem. The message on the wall constantly changes throughout each event, shifting to reflect the various feelings and beliefs of the participants. The Freedom of Speech Wall has appeared at Lucent L’Amour, Joshua Tree Music Festival and private events.
