Project Name: Flip-flopsam and Jetsam

Project managers/designers: Nick Gant and Tanya Dean 2011 / University of Brighton, Marine Conservation Society.

Web link: gantanddean.co.uk

Description: Part of the 'Sole Searching' project which researchers the systematic creation of value and meaning by using the embedded narratives, histories and stories inherent in waste or recycled materials - this project developed a 'meaning making' process where community volunteers participating in the Marine Conservations annual beach-clean-ups were rewarded with a pair of flip-flops made from the material they collected by using a converted heat press. The process embeds the object with value and meaning. Each pair has an embossed sole which designates provence of the material and where objects were made.

Added by: Nick Gant