Looking Beyond Recycling: The Living Taking and Giving Back Library ('exchange webinar')

29th Jun 2016 12:00 – 13:00

LiFE Framework: Resource Efficiency and Waste

This webinar will offer new ways to think even beyond recycling. The Living Taking and Giving Back Library may be set up easily in virtually any setting. It’s a great way to get to know people, to share discarded items and, in the process, to stimulate our imagination to reduce our carbon footprint.

Why should I attend?
This practical costless Living Library can be set up easily in any convenient space. It brings people together to reconsider and shift our consumer habits and to lessen our carbon footprint. It acts to stimulate our imagination in relation to what we do and how we deal with discarded materials and items. This webinar will provide you with more information about how the Living Library can be utilised.

Who is this webinar for?
This Webinar is for anyone interested in setting up The Living Taking and Giving Back Library, including Waste managers, staff, tutors, students etc. Any type of workplace, university or school, even church or café etc. would be suitable. 

What key learning outcomes will I take away from this webinar?
This webinar will encourage attendees to consider their consumer habits. The Living Taking And Giving Back Library offers a visual encounter like a snap shot of what might otherwise end up on landfill. Through the process of its usage, decisions and choices are able to be made and we learn to share from one another new ways of thinking about our needs and wants. The meanings derived from this work are layered and any level of engagement is left to those who may wish to participate.

Speakers:
Margaret Jennings, Student, Goldsmiths

Margaret Jennings is a student studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths University. Margaret won the Sustainable Champion category at the 2015 Green Gown Awards for her work on various sustainability art projects. She continues to develop these and other community driven facilitatory art works both on and off the campus amongst students and the local community.

If you are unable to attend the webinar but would like to receive the podcast, please contact us.