A small group, this handful of truly motivated students had the opportunity to work very closely with a number of guest speakers. Ken Dunn of The Chicago Resource Center spent a day with the students talking a bit about the enormity of our waste problem.

In collaboration with designer Isabela Gould at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This class was a plug-in laboratory for the MX network, designed to bridge between one donor institution ready to discharge waste materials, and one charity in need of objects or interior fittings.

The laboratory unfolded in two phases: first, a research phase in which students explore the nature of the donated materials, meet with the client and discuss selected readings on sustainability; second, a design-build phase in which students produce the needed objects to be donated in the end to the charity. A panel of guest speakers, reviewers, and members of the material-exchange group were part of the process.
For more info, see course website: http://www.roguestudios.net/be