“Walking the Waste Stream” Workshop
Friday, March 6th, 11:30-3pm
With Lize Mogel and FICTILIS
http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/events/walking-waste-stream

Wastewater infrastructure is critical to our quality of life, but it’s practically invisible— pipes are underground, and wastewater treatment plants are located far from view. In conjunction with Producing Waste/Producing Space, artistsLize Mogel and FICTILIS will lead a workshop offering participants a unique opportunity to trace the path waste takes as it travels from our bodies, through infrastructure, and out into a ’natural’ ecosystem; and from private to public and back again. The main part of the workshop will be a 1.5 hour tour of the sewage treatment facility that serves Princeton University and the surrounding region. Our guide will be Robert Kunert, a 30-year veteran of the municipal waste industry and the plant manager.

Van transportation to and from the plant will be provided. Weather permitting, we will have the option to walk back to Princeton along the Raritan-Delaware Canal Path, which parallels the path that effluent (cleaned water from the treatment process) takes.

Note: The tour will be outdoors so dress accordingly. Also, the treatment plant has state-of-the-art odor control equipment so smell should not be a major issue.

Limited seating is available. Priority will be given to Princeton University ID holders. Reply with your interest to arc-hum@princeton.edu.

“Producing Waste, Producing Space” Conference
Saturday, March 7, 9:30-5pm
http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/node/496

The production of waste and the production of space go hand in hand. The design of urban space has historically produced a considerable amount of waste, ranging from wastelands to the material detritus of consumption and urban development. In turn, the transport and disposal of waste has produced important ideas and practices about the design and construction of space. Yet despite waste’s centrality to the design and imagination of cities, it is today understood as a largely technical problem about the management of its disappearance. This symposium brings together scholars engaging in innovative research on the origins, meanings and repercussions of waste landscapes in conversation with artists and architects conducting design research and interventions in spaces designated as waste or wasted.

Producing Waste/Producing Space is organized by Mariana Mogilevich (Princeton Mellon Initiative) and Curt Gambetta(Architecture PhD Student) and made possible by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities, the Program in American Studies, and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.  This event is free and open to the public; registration is not required.