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.
via dezeen
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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.)
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.