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+title:  "Master's Thesis"
+date:   2025-04-24 14:39:27 +0100
+author: "Aron Petau"
+excerpt: "Human - Waste: A thesis examining interactive workshops"
+header:
+  teaser: "/assets/images/masterthesis/puzzle.jpeg"
+  overlay_image: "/assets/images/masterthesis/puzzle.jpeg"
+  overlay_filter      : 0.5
+  credit              : "Aron Petau"
+tags:
+  - plastics-as-waste
+  - plastics-as-material
+  - recycling practices
+  - object-value
+  - re-valuation
+  - maker-education
+  - Materialübung
+  - hacking
+  - archival practices
+  - collaborative recycling
+  - liminality
+  - matter
+  - scavenger-gaze
+  - transmattering
+  - peer-learning
+  - skillsharing in workshops
+  - thesis
+  - university of the arts berlin
+  - technische universität berlin
+  - university
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+
+## Master's Thesis: Human - Waste
+
+Plastics offer significant material benefits, such as durability and versatility, yet their
+widespread use has led to severe environmental pollution and waste management
+challenges. This thesis develops alternative concepts for collaborative participation in
+recycling processes by examining existing waste management systems. Exploring the
+historical and material context of plastics, it investigates the role of making and hacking as
+transformative practices in waste revaluation. Drawing on theories from Discard Studies,
+Material Ecocriticism, and Valuation Studies, it applies methods to examine human-waste
+relationships and the shifting perception of objects between value and non-value. Practical
+investigations, including workshop-based experiments with polymer identification and
+machine-based interventions, provide hands-on insights into the material properties of
+discarded plastics. These experiments reveal their epistemic potential, leading to the
+introduction of novel archiving practices and knowledge structures that form an integrated
+methodology for artistic research and practice. Inspired by the Materialstudien of the
+Bauhaus Vorkurs, the workshop not only explores material engagement but also offers new
+insights for educational science, advocating for peer-learning scenarios. Through these
+approaches, this research fosters a socially transformative relationship with waste,
+emphasizing participation, design, and speculative material reuse. Findings are evaluated
+through participant feedback and workshop outcomes, contributing to a broader discussion
+on waste as both a challenge and an opportunity for sustainable futures and a material
+reality of the human experience.
+
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+  src="/assets/documents/Human_Waste_MA_Aron_Petau.pdf"
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+
+[See the image archive yourself](https://pinry.petau.net){: .btn .btn--large}
+
+[See the archive graph yourself](https://archive.petau.net/#/graph){: .btn .btn--large}
+
+[Find the complete Repo on Forgejo](https://forgejo.petau.net/aron/machine_archivist.git){: .btn .btn--large}