UKIERI Recycling Project

'Making Do & Getting By', Richard Wentworth

As part of our UKIERI London-Delhi link, I am planning a photography project with our partner schools that looks at how objects are recycled in the environment. Students from both countries will be responding to the work of Richard Wentworth's series 'Making Do and Getting By' which documents how objects are given a second life and reused in various contexts.

The task will be for students to record photographically from first hand experience and in their local environment and consider their perception of objects as having a single function. We will use both the MLE and Flickr to store images online, which should make it easy to share and embed. I am imagining that the Indian students will document very resourceful ways in which objects are recycled but, at the same time, hoping that it will get Fortismere students observing their environment more closely and develop their visual eye.

After collecting the images, we could have an online forum discussion about the different ways in which objects might be reused and how these could be encouraged within the local/school community.