The Paper Waste Workshop is an open source mobile laboratory that invites everyone to join in, experimenting with and developing new biodegradable materials from natural resources and local waste. At this stage we use a ubiquitous material which however rarely is thought of to be recycled; the paper posters spread all over Berlin, announcing the events of the next day. These short-lived and attention grabbing media in multiple layers add up to an enormous bulk of paper on fences, public walls and advertising columns. By taking them off, revealing the ‘year rings’ of these urban surfaces, we harvest/source the paper in order to process it into a new sustainable material using basic biologic ingredients and simple kitchen utilities to create peculiar (and sculptural) objects for everyday use.
