What has waste to do with art and art to do with waste? Why do we present this theme on the IWWG website? To further develop waste management to a Circular Economy the engagement of people is essential. It means also to raise their attention and awareness for the waste problems and their impact on the environment. One way is to “use” art to make people more consciously as a basis to better care about the environment by supporting actively waste avoidance, reuse and recycling. Art creates emotions, enlightens people, enjoys and maybe shock them; art directs our view to the beauty of nature and makes us better caring for the nature. Art raises our creativity.
Since 2019, Prof. Rainer Stegmann has managed the column “DETRITUS & Art – A personal point of view on Environment and Art” published on the scientific journal “DETRITUS – Multidisciplinary Journal for Circular Economy and Sustainable Management of Residues”. This column absorbed the previous IWWG Art Gallery, handled by Prof. Stegmann and Cristina van der Westhuyzen, and has now become the new IWWG/DETRITUS Art Gallery.
Please find below the latest columns published on Detritus Journal.
For further information regarding IWWG / Detritus Art Gallery please contact Prof. Rainer Stegmann: stegmann@tuhh.de.
“When waste becomes art, it becomes beauty, creativity, exploration, an exchange of ideas, communication, meaning“.
