{"id":2589,"date":"2008-01-24T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T04:55:35","slug":"reinvented-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/reinvented-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Invented Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThat&#8217;s what Cuban artist and researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oroza.net\/w%20architecture%20of%20necessity%202.htm\">Ernesto Oroza<\/a> calls these &#8220;inventions of neccessity.&#8221; For eight years he has collected everyday objects crafted from discards, and re-purposed technology found in Cuba. Where purchased goods are in short supply, people fix their own. He&#8217;s shown these re-invented objects in several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/snapshots\/santetienne\/reinvente.html\">exhibitions<\/a>. For instance, here is a razor made with the blade and a pencil.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/5-1.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"271\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"5-1\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOr a fan blade repaired with a piece of vinyl record.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/3-1.jpg\" height=\"194\" width=\"273\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"3-1\" \/>&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are others. Check out this set of chairs constructed from broken plastic chairs given a new rebar skeleton.&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/on4.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"On4\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany of Oroza&#8217;s objects were photographed and collected into a booklet called <em>No Waste<\/em>, which was publshed by Pentagram and is now out of print (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/56597613\">available<\/a> in a handful of libraries).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Cuban artist and researcher Ernesto Oroza calls these &#8220;inventions of neccessity.&#8221; For eight years he has collected everyday objects crafted from discards, and re-purposed technology found in Cuba. Where purchased goods are in short supply, people fix their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/reinvented-objects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99,97],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}