buon appetito

BUON APPETITO
By Andrew Haythornthwaite & Jordi Canudas

Buon Appetito transforms waste paper into a growing sculpture within the city.

On average, each person around the world disposes of 48kg of paper every year. This
project questions what do we actually do with our rubbish? Where does it go? Every
week we fill our recycling boxes, we see pictures of landfill sites, and we hear stories
about the disasters of forests being cut down all over the world.
We ask the question, what if, instead of disguising our rubbish in neat bins we actually
experienced it as part of our every day scenery?
Would it alter the way we perceive our waste?

Built by the public.

Public engagement is a crucial element in this installation. People from the street
literally build the installation by stuffing any useless bits of paper inside an expandable
belly. Over the course of the fair, it keeps growing and growing. The shape is a direct
reflection of the volume of paper stuffed in.
Waste paper is everywhere during the Milano fair, its a time when extra tons of paper
have been printed to hand out as leaflets and catalogues, many of which get left
behind in hotel rooms and cafes. Buon Appetito grows into an interactive sculpture,
swelling with waste until the moment it is emptied for recycling.
The project presents a paradox in the usual way we treat with our rubbish, instead of
an unpleasant by-product; waste is now the desirable element that helps this sculpture
to grow. Buon Appetito reclaims public waste, and by doing so, wins back public
space.

Buon Appetito in the community

Buon Appetito transforms rubbish into a playful social experience; the ever-evolving
sculpture creates a recycling point that becomes a memorable landmark within the
city.
Its a place where recycling becomes a public activity, where the paper each person
adds makes a visible difference to the growing volume being collected for recycling.
People will photograph its progress, and pose next to it, parents will explain it to their
children, passers-by will wonder what it is, some will even stop to sit, lean or climb on
the soft volume that the crumpled paper creates.
This project represents a creative approach to dealing with waste it does so in a
manner that integrates the community and arouses interest in the ever growing
problem of waste paper in our cities.

We had fun imagining what might happen if Buon Appetito took over the city (or even
the world!)

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• Andrew Haythornthwaite
• design
• paper waste
• art

[ZeldaXLoverX101]

looks like a big ass cheeto

[Rhagedx86]

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