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Participants' contacts

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Touching the earth

how to communicate with people

how am I gonna do

how can I be less impactful

- Takes time to maintain responsible sustainable practices

- Low power use of digital

- Locally produced, preloved garments, materials

- Doing materials on site

- Digital storage, energy - counterbalance: not writing, not recording

- Off-Peak travel

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legacy, production legacy, collaboration, enrich people's life, social responsibility, environmental responsibility, leave traces

being open - collaborations are open to interpretation

experience the expand of knowledge

travel for residency - integrating into community as a resident artist

film - organic quality, going back to roots, keeping and learning skills

sound pollution

light pollution

equipment usage - how to reduce - maybe not owning it - many things used to be metal, nowadays plastic

sharing, renting - equipment, exhibition material, etc..

fear of AI - energy use - how to use it sustainable - mass data is the problem not our room of people - the problem is overusing it - AI use in writing makes less harm than big tech companies

denim and cotton takes lots of water - what to do?

considering dying practices - impact on the soil

discover deep waters - expend down not above

overconsumption - how to be more humanistic

first implement practices at home - then you can expand from there

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- Multidisciplinary artist (Peckham) - text based, layering techniques, sound-layering

- Creator - creative women IG setup, photography, writing for animation

- Multidisciplinary artist (from Bristol, based in Deptford) - video and sound artist, illustrator background - getting back to analog

- Fashion Designer (Hackney) - organic materials, creating new collections, natural dying - runs workshops, mental health importance in her practice

- Arts worker, artist

- Student from Goldsmiths (Türkiye) - contemporary art theory, graphic design background, theory, curatorship, writing critics, photography

- Antropologist - architect background, creative practice

- Student from Goldsmiths (Hungary) - arts administration and cultural policy, contemporary fine art theory background

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Reuse & Recycling Resources for Artists in Lewisham + London

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Reuse & Recycling Resources for Artists in Lewisham + London

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This document is part of the Sustainability Toolkit for Artists. It’s an open, collaborative list of resources to help creatives reduce waste and reuse materials across Lewisham and greater London.

How to use this doc:

Browse by category to find shops, services, or platforms.

Click on links to explore each resource.

Check “Notes” for details like what materials they accept.

How to contribute:

Add new resources at the bottom of the appropriate category.

Include name, link, brief description, and any notes.

Please only add verified or publicly available info.

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Column headings are titled based on the questions we asked participants during the workshop.

There is no pressure to add contributions and answers may be added anonymously.

If contributing, please put your answers and comments under the designated columns.

Thank you!

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After a successful workshop to discuss our first version of the sustainability toolkit, we wanted to allow others to see what we have been talking about, as well as to further contribute to discussions on sustainability and how to further improve the toolkit!

For those who are knew to using Padlet, it is an online bulletin board, allowing users to collaborate virtually, and read through contributions and spark new conversations.

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Questions/ideas for future discussions:

What happens to left over materials?

Food/material maps.
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Out-sourcing/supply chain - 'afterlife' repurposing.

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Positive feedback on language:

From the zine question: "What is the legacy I am leaving behind? Can it be made kinder?"

Using the word: "kinder"

the open language is good, its a good way to phrase a question.

"It is what it is."

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Energy consumption (often) goes unnoticed.

Energy companies/ethical companies - funding bodies

Technology and gear can be a barrier.. is there too much choice?

Sustainable practices.. Individual responsibility vs institutions:

Artist as writers, interpreter, provocateurs, intergenerational conversations.

Art as vector for change.

Art disciplines cross over, topics blend into one another.

Without the past you cannot have the future, there is a common thread.

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Where are you making your art?

Where is it going and how is it getting there?

Time is a luxury!

Who creates time scales, slow making should be encouraged.

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What happens with materials?

How is money and time balanced?

Defining yourself to a medium? It can influence your agency and identity.

Curatorial Decisions:

models/contractors

following trends, art institutions, money made from it.

more important for the curatorial framework to work or for the artists to work?

giving more power to artists/workers

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How can we be kinder?

More organisational support

Time management and slow production

Quality and ethics.

Storage (for example storage of files and duplicates.)

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Computers and technology: Where are our materials coming from?

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"Imperfection should be invited!"

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Influence of trends:

Where do our responsibilities lie?

There should be bigger conversations on expectations and markets.

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"Creativity should not have to be justified."

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Expectations:

in architecture for example..

Mode of making - is there an imbalance? - We need more sustainability conversations.

Selling fine art prints there is a quality clients expect, for example with dye transfer printing.

Perhaps it isn't about waste until the final output.

"Sometimes there isn't a choice."

"We are brainwashed, we need to open minds as educators." For example, speaking to clients/tech POV.

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Location is key: What are we sharing and learning?

Example from a fashion designer: Where are our fabrics coming from? Everything seems to have plastic.

"I can justify my price through my quality."

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"We have a responsibility to know every part of the chain."

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Digital Illustrations:

Digital work still goes to a printer = a constant and repetitive cycle

perhaps working/researching locally can leave a smaller impact.

How do we represent and engage others?

There is often a fear of being left behind - will these questions make sense to all audiences?

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Still images and printing: = harsh electricity usages.

How are harsh chemicals being disposed of?

Should there be a change to digital only?

Is there a 'fetish' of analog mediums?

Printing results in high wastage - this is something we often don't see / (Supply chain/outsourcing).

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"How do we create desire and the attention for change?"

"Where do we need guidance?"

"Money, ethics..? Questions of environment brings up everything else!"

It needs to be a two-way discussion.

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Fine Art and Design: Cycles, materials that come out of exhibitions.

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Fashion Designer:

Sustainable Practice, collaboration, writer, representation and slow fashion.

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Anthropologist:

Conducts research on the arts and sustainability.

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Painting and Animation.

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Performance Artist: Collaboration, multidisciplinary, climate anxiety, etc fosters reflection.

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Artist: Practice as a mode of research.

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Environmental Policy: Interlinks social practice and environmentalism.