There is no Away

There is no Away

 

We are putting together a creative team to make this interactive documentary which will be shown at IDocs. Your personal projects using Oscrap can be part of this documentary and you can be involved in producing the documentary in many ways.

IDocs 2016

We will follow stuff from the store to how it gets used. Stuff from Orinoco gets used in many many ways and the documentary will allow people to explore those ways.

• Upcycling
• Art
• Architecture
• DIY
• Painting and Decorating
• Building
• Eco houses
• Kid's Art
• Adult's Art
• Play
• Repair
• Gardening

We are rapidly turning much of the World's incredible natural wealth into landfill. There is no Away
will be an interactive documentary exploring the life of the stuff and the people who pass through
Orinoco, the Oxfordshire Scrapstore. Orinoco is one of a number of eclectic ‘scrap stores’ emerging
around the world in response to our throwaway society. It aims to bring about social change by
creatively expanding our understanding of our relationship to the planet's resources, challenging
the ideology underlying our high-waste cultures. This IDoc looks at ways we can open people’s
minds to different ways of living, rethinking both what we do with the sea of waste we are
swimming in, and the kinds of practices of design, materials used and so forth we are prepared to
‘commission’ as consumers.

The Scrapstore provides a unique chance to show creative ways of using stuff. The iDoc is being
trialed as a way of enabling Scrapstore users to share stories rethinking how we use stuff. The
presentation will give examples of how collaboratively produced media does this. The documentary
shows the wonderful variety of ways things can be reused or re-purposed. It offers a range of paths
into the Scrapstore and the minds of the people who use it. Mundane things like leftover paint,
fabric, plastic off-cuts, cardboard and other domestic and industrial cast offs become birds, polar
bears or crocodiles; renewed spaces, new seating and tables; sculptures, models of buildings;
cloches, drums, or a simple home repair; alternatives to the path from over consumption to landfill.
This documentary is co-produced by Chris Bonfiglioli and the Scrapstore users with almost no
budget, using the array of digital tools accessible to most people. Creating iDocs becomes a part of
the everyday practice of Orinoco. When users buy materials for their projects they are offered the
chance to participate by sending in photos or a video clip of how they have transformed the scrap.
The output of the project will be a multi path web interface. This will be both online and on an
interactive in-store screen. Content will be accessible by store section, user interest, material, uses
and innovation. Users will explore videos, photos and audio in each of these areas, as well as
make and add their own content. This will record and share the creativity of the Scrapstore as a
social and creative hub.