Slow Waste: Wood Pallets in the Expanded Field

This project expands pallet use by slowing its waste process to serve non-human entities and functions. The work draws inspiration from the discipline of forest science to allow wood to perform more diverse ecological functions, such as water storage, soil retention, sheltering and perching to name a few. Other wood materials include wood floors from a recently renovated mill (estimated at 150 yrs old), large paper tubes, scrap wood and paper. The wildflowers serve both human and non-human entities, but with a particular aim to challenge and share with the public a more ecological configuration between familiar urban wood elements and more nuanced ecological processes.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2