Waste to Wonder_

Location: Langa, Cape Town Material: Tetra Pak

Working with waste materials, we wanted to know how far we could push a material that would ordinarily be disregarded. Could we transform materials beyond ‘trash’ recognition? Could we manipulate waste into a thing of beauty?

To see the value in waste material was an opportunity to create awareness of and ‘intellectual access’ to the endless stock of ‘waste’ material around us.

The project team in 2019 was a mix made up of invited creatives from the local Langa community and participants from broader the Cape Town area. Working as a team with vastly different backgrounds (a challenge considering South Africa's segregated past), this project was as much about its unique spatial ambitions as it was a genuine opportunity for human connection. What we all found is that although waste is common to all, humanity and connection is even more familiar.

Positioning the 2019 FITV programme, in a very public urban environment was a strategic move which supports our overall mandate of creating more accessible, useful and inspiring spaces for all. We look forward to the expansion of this in the following years and how this can build more social impact through crossing boundaries and shifting perspectives.