Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Festival › Research
Description
This first International Upcycling Festival in Leicester, UK, in 2024 aims to enhance our understanding of upcycling in theory and practice in businesses (of design, making, production or waste management) and the consumption domain (as behaviour or lifestyle) drawing on different disciplines, sectors and socio-cultural contexts. It will promote upcycling internationally with three objectives: (i) to have a traditional, academic conference to advance knowledge; (ii) to engage with upcycling businesses for a direct positive impact on their practices; and (iii) to engage with the general public to raise awareness of upcycling. The focus of the conference is how we could work together across disciplines, sectors and countries/regions to scale up upcycling for significant positive impact on the environment, society and people.
Within this my role was to lead a workshop on methods of upcycling. More information can be found here: https://upcyclingfestival2024.our.dmu.ac.uk/