The Waste.Agency is an experimental abstract art intervention exploring our understanding of an economy built on consumption and wastefulness.

 

Using concepts and methodologies researched and developed through a number of interventions since 2009 exploring human behaviour and decision making, this 3-year intervention directly applies the knowledge accumulated.  

 

Bringing together thinkers, artists, makers, scientists, engineers, academics, industry, finance and the public in an unusual setting, the project discusses one of the pressing subjects of our time.  

 

The intervention was awarded Arts Council England and SHM-Foundation funding in November 2014.

 

 

Stage One

There were 1,662 conversations between 14th October and 3rd February 2014 at the Waste.Agency, Almost 1,100 with workers employed in The City’s financial sector, read comments here.

 

Stage Two

Will take place in autumn 2016.

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