The Wiki-Waste-Workshop project is as part of an ongoing practice-based-research area we refer to as "Matters - the behaviour of matter and matters of behaviour".

The 'Wiki-Waste-Workshop' model (Gant and Woodard 2015) provides a structure and process for consideration, testing and critique. (Attached).

People matter, cultures matter, environments matter, sustainable development matters.

We will use this map and microsite to develop content and support the sharing of information, the exchange of knowledge and progression of communication tools and methods between stakeholders and beneficiaries in Brighton (UK) and Eco-Bali (Indonesia) as we have in other locations around the world.

We will use remote communication methods and tools to support a creative dialogue and co-learning opportunities between our communities.

See below one of our previous projects in South-Africa.

Here you will find the model we have co-designed and are applying and testing to see if this helps support a number of our co-defined objectives and sustainable development goals. (Downloadable PDF attached below)

In 2017 we are aiming to work with Eco-Bali a pioneering eco-enterprise based in Bali Indonesia but supporting communities across Indonesia.

We welcome Paola and Britta to the WWW project! We look forward to working with you and hopefully generating some really useful, sustainable development opportunities.

Here is the link to a previous Wiki-Waste-Workshop project undertaken with The Dreamcatcher Foundation thanks to Utopia Foundation funding support.

https://community21.org/partners/wikiwasteworkshop/

How is the social culture of Bali and Indonesian communities of interest to Eco-Bali?

EcoBali works with small communities in Bali, Toraja (south Sulawesi), Flores (mainly in Labuan Bajo) and central kalimantan (area of pangkalanbun/Tanjung Putting and Lamandau region/Lopus).

Culturally those areas are different but one common trait of the communities in Indonesia is the "group belonging" being at hamlet level or village level where women groups have a very defined role and are mostly willing to develop waste crafts/products.

Who might we be aiming to help and who might benefit from new creative co-learning?

For Toraja, Flores and kalimantan communities at large depending on the solutions provided could fit either men works if construction materials are developed or women groups.

In Bali ecoBali can have the role also to organize market for the material/products that are then produced

What are the benefits to people?

cleaner environment, improved awareness, creation of new products that can be utilized within the community or sold. communities of all areas where ecobali works are somehow and at various degrees involved with tourism

Indonesia is the world’s tenth largest economy. Bali, the island of eternal summer, is situated 8 degrees south of the equator and is 1 of 17,500 islands in the Archipelago of Indonesia. Tourism is the pillar of Bali’s economy.

Balinese culture is based on unique Hindu-animist religion. Inscriptions from the ninth and tenth centuries AD record the emergence of Balinese kingdoms that would later fall under Javanese domination. In the sixteenth century, King Batu Renggong of Gelgel unified Bali. The social and religious order that was established at that time continues to the present day.

As Chapman and Gant identify in designer’s visionaries and other stories, animistic cultures consider themselves an integral part of natural systems and have a more direct and symbiotic relationship with nature which made their impacts (positive and negative) upon their environment more tangible however globalisation and tourism is both promoting and distorting traditional culture and have serious impacts on the environment. Especially since the very nature of the waste has changed dramatically from organic to inorganic.

Ecobali

*Waste Management *Education *Eco Store *Consulting *Partnership

EcoBali was established in 2006 in response to the urgency of waste management problems on the island of Bali.

Their vision is to enable everyone towards a zero waste lifestyle. The mission is to promote responsible waste management, create green knowledge and eco products towards achieving zero waste.

They are operating their own sorting and material recovery facility (MRF) ensuring the waste is properly managed and will not become a burden to Bali’s beautiful environment. The focus is to maximize recycling, reduce quantity of waste to landfill and promote composting.

Eco Bali (PT Bumi Lestari Bali) is a registered operation and complies with the current national legislation on waste management under the Ministry of Environment.

SOCIAL MEDIA TAGS -

(Eco Bali) IG ecobalirecycle (Britta Boyer) IG asustainablevision

(Eco Bali) twitter ecobalirecycling @ecobalirecycle (Britta Boyer) twitter brittaboyer @tokenproject

What are the needs of the community/ communities?

One of the greatest challenges we face is how to live compatibly with each other and the natural world when consumption is the driver and current business model. We need to develop social design solutions that value a circular system thinking approach.

Stephen Kellert, Social Ecologist at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, views our fractured relationship with nature as a “design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life and that the current approach to sustainability is missing the key ingredient, nature itself” (Africa and Sachs 2015). We need to rethink our connection with nature and ecological awareness as essential to human development.

The relationship between humankind and nature can be one of respect and love rather than domination. The outcome can be rich, satisfying, and lastingly successful, but only if both partners are modified by their association so as to become better adapted to each other. With our knowledge and sense of responsibility we can create new environments that are ecologically sound, aesthetically satisfying, economically rewarding. This process of reciprocal adaptation occurs through minor changes in the people and their environment, but a more conscious process of design can also take place (Dubos, 1980).

In addition and from a very practical point of view the need is to have simple and low-tech ways to utilize the discarded materials (not to be considered waste then).

What are the values of the community?

Community in the broadest sense means an increasing western community who live on the island – the diverse community that Bali has become. The society is a complex one. For the Balinese, their culture is having to adjust to the rapidly changing landscape of the tourism culture it is growing up in.

Cultural, religious or social?

Bali is having to question its paradise image, pleasure culture and its interactions with tourism and the Western world and re-align itself in a more authentic way.

If Bali is to develop sustainably, there needs to be an inclusive representative understanding of its culture. This understanding must become part of developments discourse and sustainable interventions. The future is a place of creating new stories, a new paradigm based on the significant social and cultural narratives that can be identified through the virtues of the Balinese and their Tri Hita Karana philosophy as opposed to the western projected image of paradise.

For, Tri Hita Karana literally means: the three causes of prosperity. Tri meaning three, hita means prosperity and karana means: reasons or cause. This cosmological philosophy of life has proven to be a powerful concept that in Bali has ensured sustainability of diverse cultures and the environment in the midst of erosion caused by globalization and homogenization.

Composition of waste in Bali / Indonesia? 60-70% organic 30-40% non organic. Of the total amount of waste 14% is plastics this is for bali and the rest of indonesia in general. Waste generation for residents is accounted at 0.7kg/person/day while for tourists is approx 2.5-4 kg/person/day. Generally only 50% of the waste is collected and brought to landfill the rest is dumped or burned. Organicwaste is rarely composted. Separation at source of waste is never done (except with the ecobali service and very few other examples) Recyclables are collected mostly by the informal sector that is selling it to the factories mostly located in the island of Java.

Recycled materials by Eco-Bali: all kinds of paper and cardboard, metal, aluminum cans, tins, tetra pak cartons, glass bottles, Plastics (PP, PET, HDPE,LDPE, PVC) such as all hard plastic bottles (detergents, food etc), soft plastics for packaging (clear) plastic shoppers/bags,

Other waste streams? We account here the non recyclables such as styrofoam clam-shell for takeaways, Mika/clear plastics containers for eggs, cakes etc (in the UK most probably are all made of PET or PP but in indonesia many of those are cheap and not labelled and possibly contain PVC), bottles plastic labels, sachets or pouches and snacks/crisps packages (lined in aluminum or aluminum like color), food wrapper plastics films

How does this differ in other islands? Since recycling factories are in Java the further the island are from java the less items are collected for recycling. only the most valuables are generally collected such as metals, aluminum cans, PET bottles and PP cups, cardboard, beer bottles (indonesian main brand).

Since the packaging industry is using more and more sachet and sachet like packages especially in mono-dose type as particularly popular in areas where spending power is less, there is abig amount of these plastics that are dumped and make their ways in river and the ocean

"In 1930 Bali changed for tourism and in 2016, Bali is changed due to tourism" (Film: Done Bali 1992)

Professor Ida Bagus Suardana (Undiknas University), warns Bali’s culture is under threat due to the consumptive behavior of society. Mass consumption of Bali’s pleasure culture has resulted in a culture where money is distorting the community and its values. As cultural anthropologist, Nararya Narottama points out, "along with increasing demand in tourism industry, materialism has made the Balinese people consciously modify their cultural products for tourist consumption".

A series of photographs taken on the singing beach during the filming of Paradise Paradigm (by Britta Boyer)

Other waste streams.

The fashion industry has contributed to shaping foreign perceptions of Bali, as well as it having great socio-environmental consequences. If it can help shape the developments negatively, then I would argue that equally, it could be a powerful agent of change if we can use it as a means to engage people and build knowledge. There is no question that politics influences culture, and though somewhat contradictory at times, fashion can produce both a topic and dystopian vision - one we may wish for and one we may fear.

How can fashion help to communicate values, i.e. place, community and nature – interconnections between places, people, ecological context and economies? Localism is a growing movement of place, community and nature. This reflexive output seeks to explore localism in the context of fashion, investigating the dynamic interconnections between specific places, people, ecological contexts, economies and the provision and expression of fashion clothes.

In localism, place matters. Local ecosystems provide both resources and constraints to an area’s activity. People and communities evolve within unique natural and social assets of where they are based. Ecosystem health is preserved through the local adaptation of knowledge, products, cultures and practices.

Fashion is a complicated business. Determining its footprint is an overwhelming challenge due to the immense variety from one garment to the next and one shoe to another. Bali's image has been changed by the fashion industry when it became part of the fashion map and equally its players can be engaged to become agents of change. It has a responsibility to be an agent of change when fashion is discussed as being the 2nd largest polluting industry after oil.

The global textile industry discharges 40,000 – 50,000 tons of dye into the water system, which contributes to an estimated 17 to 20% of the world’s industrial water pollution. Given that textile-dyeing facilities tend to be located in developing countries, where regulations are lax and labor costs are low, untreated wastewater is often discharged into nearby rivers, which in turn finds its way into the world’s seas and oceans. The Citarum River in Indonesia is one of the most heavily polluted in the world, due to the hundreds of textile factories that line its riverbanks (Greenpeace, 2017). 

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Eco Bali have just sponsored Gary Bencheghib of "make a change world" whose aim was to highlight the issue of the citarum river - check out the campaign on social media #plasticbottlecitarum

Our thoughts are with those displaced during fears of an eruption.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bali-volcano-indonesia-latest-eruption-update-mount-agung-evacuation-a7971246.html

Examples of work produced in just 20 days by second year students on 3D Design and Craft BA Hons degree.

Here are some examples of second year student proposals created in 20 days.