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.
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Sara Black and John Preus