HOMO PLASTICUS

     Plastic, in spite of its ability of infinite adaptation through physical deformation with light yet strong materiality, is at the centre of the climate crisis due to the fact that we are filling the surface of earth with over 430 million tons of plastic waste each year. Different Waste management strategies have been deployed. Resulting in changing the way we deal with our plastic waste. Resulting in changing the way we deal with our plastic waste. On the surface those actions are controlled by the governmental policies, but there is more. The feeling of contentment that you are in fact taking care of what you have consumed and stopping it from leaking to the environment is the driving source of those actions. 

     A research about an integrated model for product recycling desirability describes the Desirability of recycling material in 3 aspects ; 1. Material Separation, 2. Criticality of the material and 3. Technology Readiness. And in the context of Surrealism, the objects of desire take on a unique and often dreamlike quality. It involves the transformation of ordinary objects into something extraordinary. And thrives on the unexpected and the juxtaposition of disparate elements. Based on these desirability, throughout the series of physical and digital experimentation, I explore the object of desire. 

     Homo Plasticus, the mankind of plasticity, is the new generation of humanity with the ability of turning waste into the object of desire. Communal plastic recycling and makerspace located In the old industrial area along the Akerselva river in central Oslo, is where Homo Plasticus will bring their plastic waste weekly and manufacture it into the new object. This communal makerspace itself is the object of desire to the Scene of Oslo which has active petrochemical industries with a public with high ego-consciousness, transforming and creating unexpected moments with dreamlike qualities.