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Posted by: Jeannie Choe
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Sure, the name, Reduced Carbon Footprint Souvenirs, is kind of a mouthful but the extra verbiage is essential in explaining what's behind Héctor Serrano's take on a most popular tourist pastime--purchasing souvenirs.
A collection of souvenirs that can be send by e-mail and then materialize using a 3D Printer (stereolithography rapid prototyping). No transport or standard production methods are required so the object carbon footprint is reduced to the minimum.The project questions the way objects are manufactured and new technologies are applied to propose alternative ways of reducing their impact on the environment.
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I don't know how exciting of a project this is.
Wasn't it why Postcards were invented? not to send big heavy paintings of local landscapes... you get my point, don't see how innovating or really questioning it is.
Just attaching a 'green' theme, or in this case even -repurposing- to a green theme is IMO lacking innovation.
maybe not buying silly things that will collect dust on the shelves somewhere would be even better way to reduce carbon footprint. Sustainability and ecology is more and more used as mantra too justify anything. And that is bad for sustainability and ecology. Think twice.
A nice idea, but a reduction is unlikely considering the $125,000 3d printer, the shipping from Krypton to get the machine, flying the technician out to install it, not once, but thrice, the petroleum-based photocuring acrylates and then the 4.5Kw to print the thing.
A nice conversation idea, but probably shouldn't stick around in the morning to make waffles, if you get my drift.
Maybe as an alternative: download a Sketch-up of Big Ben, pop it in Pepakura then print and fold yourself up one nice paper model!
Recylable, foldable, mailable, malleable and edible!
(maybe not edible.)