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In family life, people always buy a lot of clothes, but actually this is not environmentally friendly for the earth. If people buy clothes frequently (especially fast fashion brands), it will cause environmental pollution and waste of fabrics. The production of clothing consumes not only the earth's natural resources but also its human resources. Many luxury brands use exotic animal skins to make clothes and bags in order to attract consumers, so many illegal and cruel ways have emerged.In the UK, around 235 million unwanted clothes were dumped in UK landfills in 2017, while the average American throws out an estimated 37kg of old clothes each year. Overconsumption and unnecessary clothing disposal have become a worrying global problem.Fashion is also one of the most polluting industries in the world, from toxic chemical use to water pollution and waste. About 35 percent of the world's microfibers come from clothing and textiles, meaning fashion is the main cause of this pollution. By 2050, the fashion industry is expected to account for 25 per cent of the global carbon budget.

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Garbage is a misplaced resource

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About challenge2: on our plate.

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8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, which is equivalent to a truckload of plastic being poured into the ocean every minute. These plastics embarked on a long and destructive journey from the moment they entered the ocean.
They can be found all over the world, even in the distant Antarctica and the deepest Mariana Trench on earth. As they drift with the waves, they will penetrate into the ecosystem and cause immeasurable damage to marine life.

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We all know how serious air pollution is in our world but have less knowledge about the influences about indoor air pollution. I’d like to discuss how indoor air pollution affects people especially children and find a way to reduce the pollution at home.

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My research was on the phenomenon of coral bleaching. Due to the ongoing global warming in recent years, the global water temperature has continued to rise. This has seriously affected the living environment of coral reefs. The fragile coral reefs cannot survive the continued warming water temperatures and this has led to widespread coral bleaching. In the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in particular, coral bleaching has been occurring at a rate beyond human expectations. After researching about the phenomenon of coral bleaching, I hope to create some works about it to visually make people see and understand this serious phenomenon in a more visual way. Protecting coral reefs is not just a task for scientists, but an obligation for all of us.

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Challenge 1: Wind Curtailment.
Wind curtailment is a global issue but it is a particularly serious problem in China. China is too ambitious and hurry, which prevents many wind power stations from working, for the energy they produced either can't be consumed nor be transmitted. Why is that happening in China?

Challenge 2: Reduce Soil Erosion.
We may not have oppotunities to see soil erosion, but it is a long process which is happening every second. We don't notice it but us human's attempts of farming and city spreading are all accelerating the process. How to prevent that with small acts in our daily life?

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challenge 6-Noise pollution in the ocean

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To be honest, I had been thinking about marine litter for the first two weeks, but I didn't find any subject I was interested in. Until one day, the fire alarm in our flat went off and woke me up, then my friend and I went downstairs on high alert to wait at the shrill sound. From then on, I began to pay attention to sounds that I hadn't cared about before. So I thought about the marine life under the silent water if they also sense the noise of humans?

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MOOD BOARD 1 - I wanted to study the subject of plastic waste deeply because nowadays it is everywhere in our life. I recorded the rubbish bins of my apartment and houses of the surrounding, but I found that the colors of the bins were different. In addition, what also confuses me is Waste Contamination. Since I wanted our plastic waste to be recycled as effectively as possible, not end up in landfills, how should we deal with our plastic waste, especially food packaging that has food residue or oil stain. If we clean our plastic packaged boxes before recycling them, then HOW CLEAN IS CLEAN?  Subsequently, I read recycling and rubbish collections guide from Kingston Council website, some relevant articles and watched a documentary produced by Netflix called Broken. Through research, I learn a word called “Wishcycling/ Aspirational recycling”. It means I wish it was recycled, but it is not. Nowadays even though we divide plastic waste into 7 types according to the plastic resin codes for recycling. Only the ones. twos, and fives that get widely recycled, and there’s barely a market for the others. Therefore, I learned that we can’t recycle our way out of plastic pollution. Recycling can be part of the solution. But we have to start with reducing overall.

MOOD BOARD 2 - I found a notion called “Zero Waste Living”. It is an eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle that encourage people to reduce their plastic footprint in their daily life. I watched many vlogs from Zero waste YouTubers and draw sketches about things they mentioned that can help us reduce our plastic waste in their videos. For example, only one hand-made all-purpose cleaner can take place our cleaning detergent; Castile soap can take place our plastic bottled shampoo, hair conditioner, body wash, facial cleanser. Besides, I was also inspired by what Anne Marie Bonneau said:” We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.” Thus, I think it is feasible to raise people’s awareness of reducing buying plastic packaged products and avoid using single-use items.

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Challenge 1 & 6

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Challenge 1
Waste in Solo Living

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Sustainable fisheries

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coral bleaching

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Challenge 6

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Challenge 6: microplastics

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After learning the definition of "sustainability", I found that I am interested in the sustainable lifestyle in our home. So I started a series of researches.

Firstly, I collected my waste for a day. I found that plastic waste is the most. Secondly, I undertook observation in my home, I discovered that the largest number of items are plastic products. Then, When I walked in Kingston Street, I found a lot of plastic garbage on the ground.

Problem: I realized that Plastic is used everywhere, but it also ends up everywhere. Every household produces a lot of plastic waste every day, but very few plastic products are reused (very few households reuse plastic products).

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challenge 6-for our water

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About reduce smokers.

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Hi everyone, please refer to my TW2 Padlet to understand my problems and the research subject. The link is down below.

https://padlet.com/k2151818/de7300

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Renjie Luo

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I studied the methods, techniques and materials of other artists and tried to apply them to my own subject ‘plastic bag’.

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"Sustainability" is a big topic, and I really hope to solve some practical problems. My start point is my current life.

In the first stage, I looked at my kitchen, my apartment and the Kingston town centre. I found two problems, the first is that we produce a huge amount of household waste every day. Secondly, street rubbish is unavoidable and people always ignore them.

The key to all of these problems is that people produce waste every day.

I began to dig deeper into my problem finding work. I looked at the waste ingredients that I produced in my apartment during the day. Most of them come from food packaging, delivery boxes. These packaging boxes are often used only once before they become garbage. I think it is a huge waste. So I went to check the relevant words. Then “Overpackaging waste became the” key to my problem.

Meanwhile, I also collected some artists' works about daily waste. They all show the potential relationship between waste and human beings. Swaantje Guntzel's piece depicts a couple with their heads wrapped in shopping bags standing in front of a rubbish dump. I can feel a sense of suffocation in this work. Plastic Ocean is the one that impresses me the most. The plastic is overwhelming.

In the following research, I will focus on the waste caused by excessive packaging. At the same time, I will reflect on and criticize the relationship between garbage and us.

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About food waste in our home
Through research, I was shocked by the huge amount of food waste in families. How can so much food be wasted at home? What can we do to make a change?

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I'm working on sustainability in a sustainable way.

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After today's seminarI reflected on my content, I need more PRIMARY RESEARCH and  observational drawing to understand. I re-think about whether this appeals to the viewer in terms of visual expression. What will communicate effectively to the audience.

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Garbage classification is now a very popular problem. Before the class of the first week, I found that many people did not correctly classify garbage, and many places did not even have garbage classification bins. I had to reflect, where did the wrong garbage classification go? And how to correct garbage classification? In this regard, I carried out research on the classification process of some garbage and similar works on garbage classification.

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At week1 and week2, I searched some information about sea pollution and especially in plastic pollution. I found some many terrified pictures of those animals suffered from plastic pollution in sea, so I tried to find the reason that caused this thing. As I searched more, I found it really hard to solve this problem, so I felt really upset.
I am always thinking of our(human beings) relationship with the earth/animals, sometimes I think maybe the existence of human, is harmful to the earth and other creatures. My heart was pumping when I saw those pictures of suffered animals, and felt really emotional when looked at  artist Natelie Zacharia's work and Mella Shaw's 'Harvest'. So I'm going to search more about the relationship between human and sea/human and marine animals. I would like to focus more about the emotional way.

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I was looking at two topics this week - mapping and corals.

Mapping:
I was intrigued by the topic of 'mapping geographical absences' and while I was life-sketching in a park, I thought it would be interesting to map out how parks accross the UK / London are dissappearing. While I couldn't find any projects/artwork that was exactly related to my topic, I decided to look at different maps that I found interesting. The one I liked most is the one on bottom right corner, which examines areas on joy and pain found across Minneapolis and St. Paul parks. I liked the concept of combining emotion, experience and mapping.

Corals:
There were tons of projects online about coral reefs. A majority of these projects took a 3d form and used interesting materials like yarn, paper, ceramics and (ironically) even plastic. What I really liked about the 3d forms is the sense of context and tangibility it brought to the coral forms. I also used the moodboard to understand what exactly I liked in these projects and thus what I wanted to convey and capture in my own project.
To convey: consequences of bleaching, the danger corals are in, healthy vs bleached corals
To cpature (through visuals): texture, the surreal or ethereal beauty of coral reefs

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The waste of Christmas shopping and recycling gifts

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After today’s discussion, I would find more references that remind the context of food saving in different times and cultures

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Challenge 6
About how we human connect and interact to the whale fall system's sustainability

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After TW1 I realized that my mind may be too narrow so I search another challenge and make more research on it.Organic farming, forest farming, future farming technologies changed my mind on the definition of modern agriculture. Satellite Imagery and drones attract me a lot so I want to do sth with it and I find agritourism stuffs, it's different compared with Chinese definition for our village agritourism is just for relaxation and delicious food from local families while in Britain it may be more emotional.Also, even some farms are collecting money or donations to build a zoo, which impressed me a lot. I failed to experience a farm on weekends because map problems, till now I don't find a specific point I'm interested in most to move on but I'll experience farms and then find my own key. I talked about animal live broadcast with Stephenie and the farms I search may be not the real farm. I'll try more and think about more opportunities.

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Green Finance

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Several new technologies have improved people's persecution of the sea. Such like System 002 , it is currently trialed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There

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Carbon emission from the long distance relationship-Ying Hu

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Carbon emission from the long distance relationship-Ying Hu

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I am in a long distance relationship for about five years,So I wonder what can I do from this perspective?

In the first stage,I interviewed some people who is/was in a long distance relationship,and I choose some of them's story to show on the board.Then I found many environmental issues can be connected to this group,and the most obvious point is that they have to travel a lot in order to meet each other.So I get some data from my interviewees about the frequency they meet each other and the transport methods they use,I show a part of them on the board as well.After that,I do some research about those different transport methods,for instance,What energy do they use?How much energy they need to consumption?Then I found the key point is,after they consume those energy,they are all going to emit greenhouse gases.

As I learned more about the carbon emission of the different transportations, it seems the ground travel is more friendly to the environment then the flight,surprisingly,plane account for two percent of carbon emission in all human beings. Then I used a carbon calculator to count the one person's emission in various transport ways when they travel of 1000 kilometers(a normally domestic trip in China), the emission of flight is twofold of the train!

I wonder why we all want to reduce the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere?I started to learnd about the carbon cycle in our earth (bottom of the first board),and I figured out what can this rapid increase bring to us,it's not about saving the earth,is about saving ourselves.

Then I started to thinking about the connection between the relationship and the carbon emission,a spark just bursted into my mind, that the passionate in love is just like the carbon we made – the quicker and more times we met each other in a distance relationship,the more carbon we made,but in the end, we all want to end this distance and the emission.So I decided to use a symbol to represent the carbon dioxide as well as the feeling between couples.

However, what symbol is that? I viewed lots of artworks,then I found some may help,and I sticked them on the second board.Between those works, two of them attract me most,one is the texture that red watercolor made,the other one is a water trace in a concrete floor which reminds me of the texture that fire can make,so I did some trials.

Those are all I got now, please do give me advices about my work and tell me how do you think about it. Thank you so much for your time.

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Third mood board

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Second mood board

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First mood board

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challenge 6
When I was first given this topic, it occurred to me that I could set a more specific area for my research. So I chose the Hogsmill river in Kingston as a specific study to find out what problems existed in the aquatic ecosystem of this river.
I investigated the river's surroundings, how people interact with it, the organisms present in the river ecosystem, the quality of the water and so on. In my research I learnt that the Hogsmill river is a heavily modified river and has suffered from a decline in biological quality and substandard chemicals in recent years, with sewage discharge, urban and traffic pollution, and physical modifications all contributing to this.
How have other artists reflected on the universal problem of aquatic ecosystems through their work? I have investigated a number of projects and I think they can be grouped into several categories: firstly, works that reflect reality by reorganising existing materials that are relevant to the problem. The Hong Kong Soup 1826 series, for example, reflects the fact that the river is heavily polluted with rubbish that people throw into the water by collating and photographing it, and that this rubbish, which is well known to the people of Hong Kong, is linked to the cultural history of Hong Kong in a way that resonates deeply with people. Secondly, the use of (issue-related) materials to produce works that reflect real-life issues. For example, the work Coral garden uses textiles to create the effect of coral bleaching, and the pollution of the sea by textiles is a major problem. The material and the form of expression connect the issues. Thirdly, through the expression and connotation of the work, the issue is communicated and called for, while the work itself engages with the issue, interacting with it and making it better. This is one of the most interesting works to me, Jason's underwater sculptures speak to the protection of the marine environment, while the sculptures themselves are used as artificial reefs, interacting with the underwater environment and becoming a major tool for improving the marine ecology.
All this investigation has made me realise that there are many different ways to present and solve problems. Inspired by this, I am imagining ways in which I might be able to interact with people and the environment, and I am also thinking about how to make it easier for everyone to get involved, rather than becoming a project with too high a barrier. Next I intend to delve into the specific problems that exist at Hogsmill river and see if I can find a practical entry point.

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moodboards

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How humans affect the oceans
When I look at advertising and environmental campaigns, I find the human role missing. In fact, it is the humans themselves who are responsible for the destruction. Whether it’s garbage or waste or pollution, I found that artists mostly use special materials to connect and express this theme. The funny thing is, to me, being full of junk images is visually powerful but lacks some empathy. So I started thinking about what it was that didn’t make me feel like it was really happening. Then I thought of the impact of the photos of people interacting with the exhibits rather than the images of the exhibits themselves, such as a large area of garbage and next to a small area of people, space devices to watch people and so on. These works of art or installations become complete when people are involved, perhaps because people are more likely to bring them into the picture. When viewing these pictures, they not only give visual and information expression, but also make the pictures more realistic and spacial. So I did a visual research on how to connect people and things from the angles of space, clothing, decoration and advertisement.

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microplastics

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Mood board