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List of contents
Introduction
Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls
- Acceleration, Consumerism and Reuse: A Changing Paradigm
Robert Crocker
PART I: CULTURE, MEANING AND VALUE
- Using Art to Research Diverse Economies: Social Experiments in Re-Valuing Waste
Max Liboiron
- Repurposing Cultural Heritages Collections: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Reuse
Sally Butler
- The Devil’s Horns are Made from Toilet Rolls: Creating Costumes and Communities from ‘Junk’ Objects
Claire Langsford
PART II: STRATEGIES AND LANDSCAPES OF REUSE
- Renew(ing) Newcastle and Complicating Capitalism: Contributory Economies, Artisanal Production and the DIY Occupation of Disused Commercial Space
Cathy Smith
- Rapid Urbanisation and Wang Shu’s Architecture: The Use of Spolia and Vernacular Traditions in China
Hing-Wah Chau
- Public Space for Changing Times: Reuse Strategies in transforming the ‘Wastelands’ of Cities
Gini Lee
PART III: REVIVING PRACTICES OF REPAIR AND REUSE
- Fix it: Barriers to Repair and Opportunities for Change
Tim Cooper and Giuseppe Salvia
- ReDress: Maximising Component Reuse for Fashion
Kim Fraser
- Composting as Everyday Alchemy: Producing Compost from Food Scraps in Twenty-First Century Urban Environments
Vivienne Waller, Linkda Blackall and Peter Newton
- Reuse in Earthship Construction: Reclaiming the Past to Shape the Future
Keri Chiveralls
About the author
Robert Crocker (DPhil.) teaches the history and theory of design and design for sustainability in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia, where he is Deputy Director of the China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development. His research is focused on consumption and its contributing role in our environmental crisis. His most recent book is Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design (Greenleaf / Routledge 2016).
Keri Chiveralls (PhD.) is the Discipline Lead and Head of Program for the first full degree course offered in Permaculture at CQUniversity. Her research interests are in cultural and environmental anthropology, social movement studies and theories of social change. She received her doctorate in Anthropology/Social Inquiry at the University of Adelaide in 2008. Since then she has published book chapters, journal articles and presented at national and international conferences.
Summary
There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Challenging dominant understandings of ‘waste’ and ‘consumption’, Subverting Consumerism shows how reuse has become a means for many to creatively en
