Its coming to the end of National Allotment Week and I would like to share how I protect the pallet collars from the elements and make them last a lifetime. …

Way worse than bamboo or real wood since it’s still 20% plastic which, even if there’s a recycling loop, sheds micros. But, might it measure up to painted wood…? Some paints are bad.

Funded by the Swiss National Research Fund, Discarded Digital is a field research project conducted by Nicolas Nova, Anaïs Bloch and Thibault Le Page about the use/re-use/repurposing of digital technologies from the recent past. Both an inquiry into the second (and probably third) life of digital rubbish and an exploration of alternatives to e-waste recycling businesses this project aims at (1) documenting lesser known practices in the field of art, design and preservation, (2) grasping the kind of artifacts that emerged from them, and (3) understanding the skills they rely on and the knowledge they produce.