Craftspeople Exchange in Vayots’ Dzor - Another Art
In May 2021, Another Art organised a two-day workshop to bring together three artist-practitioner research residents and the residents of a local village in the pursuit of rural sustainability. As an offshoot of Another Art´s production residency, this workshop engaged with ecological and permacultural approaches to renovation, restoration, construction and land use redesign processes.
The program focused on the design and implementation of an ecological approach to toilet and sewage management, giving the research residents the chance to interact with very practical ecological questions. Residents and participants from the village learned existing vernacular approaches to refuse management, gathering local builders to help instruct them in the usual way toilet facilities were installed in the region.
The workshop was divided into two days. The first half-day was dedicated to exploring different possibilities and examples for the design of human waste management or reuse systems. The remaining day and a half of the program was a practicum in which the residents and villagers collaborated to implement one of the examples presented, adapting it to the existing landscape, available materials and vernacular approaches and customs.
By the end of the workshop, the group had produced two mobile compost toilet systems, enabling the villagers to utilise refuse as a resource to build soil fertility. Another Art launched this program in the hopes that it would encourage locals and their research residents to think about sustainability in rural areas, providing them with ecological and economical methods to restore and repair their environments while also expanding awareness of the demand for rural-focused conservation work.
Funded by the European Union
In May 2021, Another Art organised a two-day workshop to bring together three artist-practitioner research residents and the residents of a local village in the pursuit of rural sustainability. As an offshoot of Another Art´s production residency, this workshop engaged with ecological and permacultural approaches to renovation, restoration, construction and land use redesign processes.
The program focused on the design and implementation of an ecological approach to toilet and sewage management, giving the research residents the chance to interact with very practical ecological questions. Residents and participants from the village learned existing vernacular approaches to refuse management, gathering local builders to help instruct them in the usual way toilet facilities were installed in the region.
The workshop was divided into two days. The first half-day was dedicated to exploring different possibilities and examples for the design of human waste management or reuse systems. The remaining day and a half of the program was a practicum in which the residents and villagers collaborated to implement one of the examples presented, adapting it to the existing landscape, available materials and vernacular approaches and customs.
By the end of the workshop, the group had produced two mobile compost toilet systems, enabling the villagers to utilise refuse as a resource to build soil fertility. Another Art launched this program in the hopes that it would encourage locals and their research residents to think about sustainability in rural areas, providing them with ecological and economical methods to restore and repair their environments while also expanding awareness of the demand for rural-focused conservation work.
Funded by the European Union
