Upcycle Art, about

Upcycle Art is an art project aiming to raise the awarness of more concious and creative use of our resources by introducing fun projects that one can make from those things that normaly are tossed as garvages or into recycle bins. Follow the step by step instaction to make cool products by yourself.

Purpouse	Upcycle Art is an art project aiming to raise the awarness of more concious and creative use of our resources by introducing fun projects that one can make from those things that normaly are tossed as garvages or into recycle bins. Follow the step by step instaction to make cool products by yourself.

Upcycle Art Project	Recycling is not always the best solution. It actually should be the last resort. Rather reducing the use of materials and energy should come first. Also, reusing is much more prefarabble than recycling since it requires less energy in process and the degradation of material quality is lower than recycling. We call our projects "upcycling" to differenciate from "recycling" and "reusing". "Recycling" usually means chopping up the waste product into raw material to make new products. On the other hand, "reusing" retain the original form and use of the product. The word "reusing" implyes that the wast product is simply cleaned and used as it is for the pourpouse that is same or similer to the use originally intended. Upcycle art is neither of these. Upcycle art "upgrades" the materials that usually thought as unreusable. The original products are processed in some degree but the look and feel of the original material is retained. The form and the use of the original products are re-contextualised and acquire different use while the esthetic qualities of the original design are often made more noisable. The practice of making functional product with esthetically pleasing design out from waste materials that often considered as un-reusable, is aimed to solicit the attention and care towards our daily practice of consumption. Upcycle art will focus on creating functional object but not restricted to it. Making upcycle art is fun and FREE!

Design protocol	Upcycle art should not take the materials out from the loop of the normal recycling system. Upcycle art should be easily recycled after the life of the product. Therefore these protocols must be followed during the designing process. o Single material design is preferred over multiple material design. o If multiple materials are used in one product, each parts of different materials should be easily disassembled. o Use of adhesive (glue, bond etc.) should be minimal or not used at all. o Use of paints or additional coloring should be minimal or not used at all. Instead, the original coloring or prints should be used as esthetic feature. o Light weight design. o Compression of the material- space saving design. The design process should compress the material rather than expand it to minimize the energy used for transportation during the recycling process after the life of the product. o Unused parts of the materials must be put in normal recycling process. If the material is not recyclable, it must be properly discarded.