Liberated Debris: Protest by Making
mazin chabayta
Project Description
Liberated Debris is a series of musical instruments made from discarded resources that were deemed obsolete by their original owners. It revokes the manufacturers’ rights to plan obsolescence, to hide and protect their technologies and it supports the people’s rights to hack, repair, modify, make and use their devices as they please. Liberated Debris calls for making to be revived, to activate makers, to re-evaluate our resources, and to share knowledge and perspective openly and freely. Liberated Debris urges us to reconsider our relationship with our devices and our cycles of production, purchase and waste.
BIO
Mazin Chabayta is an undisciplined maker/designer/artist. Mazin's experience includes design practice and training, everyday making, and tattoo practice. Mazin holds a BFA in Visual Communications from Dubai, and is currently pursuing a MDes in Digital Futures from OCAD University. As a technologist, Mazin pursues a human-centred approach that puts the human touch in the design and production of our everyday objects and interactions. Mazin is currently focusing on repurposing and reusing existing obsolete devices, common in every home, to create and help others create new objects and devices from resources otherwise deemed waste.