Creative Thursdays Webinar 2 report: 'The privilege of long-term partnerships'.
A post summarising the discussion which followed our second SEEYouth webinar - 'Design realities: creativity as a tool for positive change' (University of Sao Paolo, 17.12.2020).
This creative Thursday was dedicated to open questions about the relationship between design, consumption, and sustainability with the presentation of different projects of Maria Cecilia Loschiavo do Santos and her collaborators. The main project was the presentation of Coopamare that is a coop situated in Sao Paolo that changes the relationship we can have with waste through recycling, art and creativity.
Through seven presentations by Stuart Walker, Ikka Suppamen, Fausto Viana, Rafael Szafir Goldstein, Rosana Vasques Anna Beatriz Simon Factum, Amanda Carvalho and Danielly O.M.M, we learned about the challenge to address of sustainability in design with examples of Coopamare and another project called Kantan; the magic pillow, that also address the relationship with waste through clothing design and the Japanese theatrical heritage. The presentations addressed philosophical question as of our relationship to consumption, waste and creativity, but the presentations also exposed their experiences in the projects. In the case of Coopamare, Rosana vasques summarize the aspect of relation that emerge from the experience of collaborating with the people of Coopamare in declaring that Coopamare is less a project than a long-term partnership.
Though out these presentations, we had the privilege of learning about the idea behind the projects, but also to learn how they were realized and lived by different persons through the academia, art, dynamic relationships, etc.
At the ends during the Questions and Answer sections, we finished on a sentiment of solidarity and a reminder the important thing is to be here together. Together, we can point out solidarity stories like the one of Coopamare in the face of the context consumption that we globally live in. Solidarity and actions to change our relationship with consumption and what we perceive as trash is what’s important.
Étienne Levac. December 2020