Plastex Weaving Workshop by RE Design at Green Fesitval event initiated by Beena Green at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. The workshop promotes the reuse of plastic bags creatively. Everyone got to make their own bracelets on the Cubic Looms developed at Fablab Maastricht by Hadwa Omran. [Untagged photo credits: Beena Green]
Upcycling Workshop by RE Design and Stichting Safarana at Het Landhuis Maastricht, Netherlands. A collaborative workshop spreading awareness on the reuse of materials into new products, everyone could make their own creations; transforming bicycle tires into bracelets and weaving plastic bags on the newly designed Cubic Loom developed at Fablab Maastricht by Hadwa Omran.
The growing hype around Fablabs and innovative technologies like “3D printing” and “laser cutting” for instance, turns my focus once again to the environmental impact of the materials used in fabrication. Like any other production processes, there will always be wasted bits and pieces out of these beautiful technologies, either wasted materials or misused […]
