From Centre to Periphery: The Engineering of “Away”

The book The Engineering of “Away” shows a collection of technologies (patents) used in the creation or maintenance of the land body. Screenprinted with waste ashes, the residues of waste incineration technology, the book questions the focus placed on patenting ever more technology that upholds the status quo rather, its site-specific problems rather than zooming out.

Part of a second Master in Geo—Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, thus gratitude to bb-bureau for the student licensing option for BallPill.

From Centre to Periphery is a long-term design & research project that investigates discarding and the role of landfills, as an antiquated disposal method and their entrenchment within contemporary waste management. Constructed ever further on the periphery, landfills have become a “geospatial other” – a sacrificed zone – destined to receive the residues of hazardous waste streams, waste incineration and recycling streams, which to this day enables the centre to flourish and thus necessitates the landfills’ existence. The project consists of several chapters and includes field research, interviews, visual journalism and documentation of various sites across the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Scotland.