Author:

• marta pimenta velloso - marta pimenta velloso - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - <marta.velloso@ensp.fiocruz.br>

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Abstract:

This research began when the link between recycable waste materials pickers and visual artists were first discovered and proved it`s usefulness. They have in common the way they reshape the remnants of the consumption society waste pickers give new uses to objects bringing dignity to cast out materials, where as visual artists reshape these subjectively refused objects into art, giving them new social value. This study tries to locate the continuity gap we created in regard to waste materials processing - What may they tell about us? Where do they stand at our social scale of values? Thus becames clear how waste objects aren`t just technical realities but renewed values. Approaching waste objects with a logic that merely envisages their technical side would leave behind something they had as an essential part.

Key Words: Waste material pickers; Creativity and art; Emancipacion and Environmental education.

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