Interesting short film about building with waste...

Filmaker Laura Hanna made this short film, A City Made of Waste, in 2008 for the exhibition Home Delivery:Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090216/cityofwaste_video

Need helpers this Saturday!

Help us get ready for the ReBuilding Exchange grand opening party and come on out this Saturday, the 7th, between 10 and 6. We'll be getting crafty, making signs, hanging lights, and organizing our materials...
Send an email to rx@delta-institute.org if you can make it!

Thanks,
Elise

Reuse Project of Interest from our Friends at Material Exchange

Public Art Installation: "I'd Rather be Fishin' "
In conjunction with the Smart Museum's traveling exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, members of Material Exchange have been invited to participate in a short project-based residency in Marquette, Michigan through February 2nd. The project began with a retired wooden fishing boat refashioned into a truck topper for transportation to the Upper Peninsula atop a slick Chevy Silverado rental. Upon reaching its destination, the topper will be transformed, yet again, as a sculpture to be installed upon the frozen inland body of water, Teal Lake. This sculpture will be collaboratively designed and built with several high school and college students while Material Exchange is in residence. The design will, in the warming months of spring, sink to the bottom of the lake and find it's final role as a freshwater fish habitat.

For more information please visit:
http://art.nmu.edu/department/museum/index.htm

Related Event:
Friday, January 30, 2:00pm
Visiting Artist Presentation: Material Exchange
Art and Design Lecture Hall, Room 165

Saturday, January 31st, 3:00pm - ?
Public Art Installation and On-Site Fish Fry
Amidst the Teal Lake Ice Fishing Village

Hope to see you there- Bring your parkas!
MX

www.material-exchange.org

Article on Deconstruction Pilot Project in Cleveland

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/01/deconstruction_salvages_abando.html

Save the date!

The ReBuilding Exchange will celebrate its grand opening on Friday, February 13th, 6-10pm with live music, food, and a live and silent auction.  Please join us for this exciting event!

Have a skill or item you'd like to donate to raise funds for the ReBuilding Exchange?  We are currently accepting donations of items for the silent auction. Items may include donated services such as health, beauty, educational, skilled artisanry or items such as artwork, gift certificates for retail or restaurants, or stays at vacation homes.  Use your imagination!

If you'd like to be added to our mailing list for more information about this event and other news at the ReBuilding Exchange, or have an item to donate, please send an email to ezelechowski@delta-institute.org.

We are also currently accepting donations of building materials by appointment until our grand opening in February. 

Tales from our first volunteer kick-off weekend!

Dave Hampton of Urban Habitat Chicago and Echo Studio writes about our first weekend of moving and set-up in the new space.

http://www.urbanhabitatchicago.org/blog/birth-of-the-rebuilding-exchange/

Thanks to all our volunteers for coming out!

We're moving into our new home on 47th Street in Chicago!

Today is the day! We're moving in and setting up shop. Deliveries of materials are arriving regularly over the next couple of weeks and we're looking for volunteers to help with moving, inventory, and material organizing. Please let us know if you want to participate! More information about our grand opening coming soon...

3333 West 47th Street