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    • Resourceful Avondale workshop series
      • August - October 2023 Avondale Library & ALL GOODS, 99 Rosebank Rd, Avondale A series of free workshops on creative uses of local resources. Thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Fund.

    • Resourceful Avondale workshop series
      • August - October 2023 Avondale Library & ALL GOODS, 99 Rosebank Rd, Avondale A series of free workshops on creative uses of local resources. Thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Fund.

    • Felt Makers – Upcycled, Zero Waste Felt Making and Design
      • Saturday 24 June 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join visual artist, Xin Cheng, for a meditative workshop repurposing local organic material offcuts into versatile woollen felt. Felt from wool is the oldest known textile, originates in central Asia, and has many traditional practical uses such as shelter, clothing and footwear.

    • Felt Makers – Upcycled, Zero Waste Felt Making and Design
      • Saturday 24 June 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join visual artist, Xin Cheng, for a meditative workshop repurposing local organic material offcuts into versatile woollen felt. Felt from wool is the oldest known textile, originates in central Asia, and has many traditional practical uses such as shelter, clothing and footwear.

    • Washing Machine to DIY Worm Farm and Grass Tumbler
      • Saturday 29 July 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join Compost Collective facilitator/artist Adam Ben-Dror and artist Xin Cheng this Plastic Free July, and ask the question 'WHAT COULD A BROKEN WASHING MACHINE BECOME?'. This will be a fun and interactive workshop where broken washing machines are transformed and upcycled into a 'Rodent-Resistant Wormfarm' and 'Carbon Creator' Grass Clipping Drier.

    • Washing Machine to DIY Worm Farm and Grass Tumbler
      • Saturday 29 July 2023 10:30am - 1:30pm EcoMatters Environment Trust, 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland Join Compost Collective facilitator/artist Adam Ben-Dror and artist Xin Cheng this Plastic Free July, and ask the question 'WHAT COULD A BROKEN WASHING MACHINE BECOME?'. This will be a fun and interactive workshop where broken washing machines are transformed and upcycled into a 'Rodent-Resistant Wormfarm' and 'Carbon Creator' Grass Clipping Drier.

    • DIY Server Infrastructure
      • By: Adam Ben-Dror There is a popular perception that the internet or “the cloud” is somewhere “out there”, and not somewhere “here” that you can see, touch and experience with your own senses. Contrary to this view “the cloud” and the internet are not somewhere in the sky or in outer space. They are here […]

    • DIY Server Infrastructure
      • There is a popular perception that the internet or "the cloud" is somewhere "out there", and not somewhere “here" that you can see, touch and experience with your own senses. Contrary to this view "the cloud" and the internet are not somewhere in the sky or in outer space. They are here on earth.

    • E-waste creative reuse, upcycling and repair after school program
      • Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30pm - 6:30pm Nov 1st to Dec 8th 2022 Onehunga Community Recycling Centre, 37 Victoria St, Onehunga 6 week after school program exploring creative re-use, repair, upcycling and hacking of various e-waste including computers, "smart" phones, keyboards, laptops, toasters, home appliances and anything else we find at the recycling centre!

    • Creative Mending Circle
      • Saturday 26 Nov 2022 11am - 2pm Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub, 153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland Join us for a restorative mending afternoon, and repair beloved garments with your own creative flair! We offer hands-on guidance on darning, patching and other visible mending techniques. Bring your own mending, sewing or upcycling project.

    • Co-Creating Audio Pleasures: Wasting Sound Through Wasteful Means Participatory Performance
      • Saturday 5 Nov 11am - 2pm Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub, 153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland We invite you to experience the joy of life in this participatory sound-making performance workshop featuring auto-piano, revived “dead” SLA batteries, fans from computer power supplies, corks, screws, twigs, our lungs, our hearts, our fingers, oversized Christmas wind chimes, robotic noodle maker, foot massage machine, silver ducting, trampoline frames, castors from bed base, obsolete gaming consoles, defunct stools, engine from weed eater, bicycle innertubes, synthesizer, subwoofer vibrator, aluminum pots and more.

    • Co-Creating Audio Pleasures: Wasting Sound Through Wasteful Means Participatory Performance
      • Saturday 5 Nov 2022 11:30am - 2pm Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub, 153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland We invite you to experience the joy of life in this participatory sound-making performance workshop featuring auto-piano, revived “dead” SLA batteries, fans from computer power supplies, corks, screws, twigs, our lungs, our hearts, our fingers, oversized Christmas wind chimes, robotic noodle maker, foot massage machine, silver ducting, trampoline frames, castors from bed base, obsolete gaming consoles, defunct stools, engine from weed eater, bicycle innertubes, synthesizer, subwoofer vibrator, aluminum pots and more.

    • Creative Mending Circle
      • Saturday 26 Nov 11am - 2pm Tāmaki Zero Waste Hub, 153 Pilkington Road, Glen Innes, Auckland Join us for a restorative mending afternoon, and repair beloved garments with your own creative flair! We offer hands-on guidance on darning, patching and other visible mending techniques. Bring your own mending, sewing or upcycling project.

    • E-waste creative reuse, upcycling and repair after school program
      • Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30pm - 6:30pm Nov 1st to Dec 8th Onehunga Community Recycling Centre 6 week after school program exploring creative re-use, repair, upcycling and hacking of various e-waste including computers, "smart" phones, keyboards, laptops, toasters, home appliances and anything else we find at the recycling centre!

    • Frugal repair of high quality thermos
      • This style of stainless steel thermos is commonly found in opshops around Aotearoa (New Zealand) with a broken plastic lid. This page documents the process of finding various ways to repair the thermos.

    • What would a Resource Recovery Network for Pōneke look like?
      • Waste Free Welly is an open and collaborative group of individuals and organisations working to progress the vision of zero waste in the Wellington Region. In 2020, responding to Wellington City Council’s target of reducing waste to landfill 30% by 2026, they proposed to develop a region-wide resource recovery network.

    • What if we were resourceful with the things we already have?
      • Sat 30 April 2022 2pm – 4pm Led by Joanna Langford What if when we wanted new things, like clothes, tools or materials, instead of heading to the mall, we took the time to look around and see the potential in what we already have, what could we borrow, fix, adapt, reinvent or simply do without. What if we applied this mindset in our jobs and in our businesses?

    • new handles
      • Great examples of new/replacement handles, often improving upon the original, as seen in Hamburg, Solingen & Freiburg.

    • Freeboxes
      • During my time living in Germany I have enjoyed coming across these ‘Freeboxes’ on my wanderings around the cities, where people leave things for others to take, often housed in handmade structures. Sometimes you also come across things on the sidewalk, with the note ‘Zu Verschenken’. – Xin

    • Sandwiching
      • Useful technique for fixing things onto grills and fences, here seen used by professionals and non-professionals alike, at subway and shop entrances around Hamburg.

    • Sidewalk seating & gardens
      • In certain neighbourhoods of Berlin, a local regulation (Baumscheibenpatenschaft) allows and encourages the modifications of the space immediately around the trees along the footpath by locals. Walking around, I found a variety of seating, made from pristine and salvaged materials, accompanied by different gardens.

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