Mayari’s Blog

Sorry folks, I haven’t updated my blog in a long time. This has its reasons! I needed a retreat, sort of a sabbatical, an evaluation and reorientation. I’m going to be back in public and on the (online) market soon with a slightly different approach.

Mayari’s focus will be on co-designed or commissioned upcycled design-art works. As an artist I will also be open for any kind of collaboration with lovely, responsibly operating enterprises or educational institutes (giving workshops) in the field of upcycling (turning trash into treasure)!

I’m working on a new website! Please have patience and soon you’ll be able to check out all the new design-art works I have been inventing and creating whilst I was in the retreat! I can’t wait to share them with you!

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Ok, I’ll tell you what my problem is: FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. First my my passion was DESIGN, then SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, now it’s UPCYCLING.

I’m a designer and fascinated by sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many things!

But now, at least I feel I can handle this topic (upcycling). It’s concrete and very close to my heart.

Transcript:

As an ambitious designer I went to the market on Sunday to make a “market research” for the word/idea “upcycling“.

I wondered how popular this idea is as opposed to recycling.

Here are the results:

Upcycling - 3 know, 23 don’t know

Recycling - 26 know, 0 don’t know.

As you can see, I’m on a BIG mission to make upcycling better known!

Oh yes. Most people then wanted to know what upcycling is! I made this sketch to explain it. I’ll make a better one soon and put it on this blog!

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http://www.taggalaxy.com/ to make your own.

If you want to learn more about upcycling and see some examples check out this previous post.

This is a post that is part of the Blog Action Day.

This is one of my favourite citations. It is by Confucius.

As I love to tell things visually, here is an illustration I made for the quote. I hope it makes you understand better.

Yesterday, I had the chance to present upcycling and my re*creations to a large audience at pixmix, which is a good copy of pecha kucha. I had the feeling the audience liked my presentation a lot! It gave them a lot of valuable information and I hope inspiration.

Same as in my street survey (see previous blogpost) I first asked the question: “Who of you has ever heared of upcycling?” There were about 60 people in the room and none of them raised a hand! Turns out that they knew upcycled products but they didn’t know the term “upcycling”. They all know recycling but there is a difference between upcycling and recycling which I will explain in a future blogpost.

For now, have a look at the slides I made. Of course my comments are missing but anyhow you should get a picture.