Choose a place on campus or in the immediate region.  Describe how this space is physically structured around waste infrastructures, broadly understood, especially if they are structured around distancing people from waste.  Try to choose a space that isn’t obviously a waste site, like not a local waste transfer station, but one where we wouldn’t normally think of waste.  Include photos of the space in your description.  

Readings from this week:

Rathje, William L., and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. (Chapter 4 and 5; pages 81-132)

Calvino, Italo. “Continuous Cities I.” In Invisible Cities. 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, 114-6.

Clapp, Jennifer. “The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy.” In Confronting Consumption, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002, 155–76.