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(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community 01.12 2021, Novi Sad	(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community 29.11 2021, Novi Sad	(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community 03.11 2021, Novi Sad	(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community 01.11 2021, Novi Sad
Reshape 22.09 2021, Zagreb, Ljubljana	Reshape 07.09 2021, Bilbao	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 05.06 2021, Graz	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 04.06 2021, Graz
THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 03.06 2021, Graz	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 01.06 2021, Graz	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 30.05 2021, Graz	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 27.05 2021, Graz
THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 26.05 2021, Graz	THE SCHOOL OF THE WE 25.05 2021, Graz THE SCHOOL OF THE WE is an artistic, cultural and pedagogical process that investigates and supports the formation of a collective subject, a sense of...	Vases 23.05 2021, Belgrade	4 x 5 x X = 15 + Y 21.05 2021, Belgrade Spring exhibition, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić.
WBRC 20.11 2020, Novi Pazar	WBRC 18.11 2020, Struga	WBRC 15.11 2020, Ohrid	Spectrometer box 10.11 2020, Belgrade First prototype chassis for spectrometer. Thanks to the kind support at Eco Plastics.
NEW WORLD OF PLASTIC WASTE II 27.10 2020, Design school Bogdan �uput, Detelinara - Novi Sad Second workshop.	NEW WORLD OF PLASTIC WASTE 13.10 2020, Design school Bogdan �uput, Detelinara - Novi Sad First workshop within the festival Na Sopstveni Pogon 2020 (self-propelled festival 2020 organised by Independent Culture Scene of Serbia)	Measure of agreement 12.10 2020, Belgrade exhibition of independent artists "It must be possible", Pavilion Cvijete Zuzorić,	Haunted Camp / Scupture Exhibition 06.09 2020, Paviilion of Arts Cvijeta Zuzorić - ULUS
Birds Parlament 03.09 2020, Praksa Maker space Birds are having the last chat before heading north via Lower Austrian Alps.	100 Shtiglich's 20.08 2020, Praksa Maker space 4 weeks of work / 5 stiglich per day / 2.5 people	Shtiglich and Barrack Bars 10.08 2020, Praksa Maker space This summer went in hard work. We had to produce 100 plastic birds (shtiglich's) and 18 Barrack bars, for two different shows.	The first test with a new mould 08.08 2020, Praksa Maker space Every new tool has to be be learned how to work with it. So the same happens with a aluminum mould which was produced for us by Stojisavljević fo...
...and it's working! 20.05 2020, Praksa Maker space First test -melting plastic, adjusting the temperature that will melt the plastic fast without burning it during the process	Everything connected... 19.05 2020, Praksa Maker space Finally our forth machine - Injector is finished!	Help from the expert 18.05 2020, Praksa Maker space Wires connected successfully, but we needed some professional guidance...thanks Zverko!	Connecting the wires 12.05 2020, Praksa Maker space This is the first time we are connecting the wires without Chow, who is in Malaysia due to series of unfortunate events...let's see if we can make it....
Making the box for electronics 08.05 2020, Praksa Maker space Adjusting the box for puzzles into a box that will hold together all the electronic parts, reused and beautiful	Heaters added to the structure 06.05 2020, Praksa Maker space Another day another element added...we are now rushing home before the curfew...	Injector structure 03.03 2020, Praksa Maker space After longer break we had a working day in Praksa and injectors structure is now finished. Sooner the better we should try the Barrack Bar Mould.	Barrack Bar Mould 27.02 2020, Fine Arts Faculty Belgrade Peđa, an assistant on the Sculpture department of the Faculty of fine arts helped us make a mould for the Barrack Bar. It is ready now, the only ...
Tandem Western Balkans meeting no. 2 20.02 2020, Skopje Another project we are participating in together we two other partners INKA from Struga - N. Macedonia and Off The Grid from Novi Pazar - Serbia. Here...	Making the mattress 18.02 2020, Mytilene, Lesvos Volontiers and Refugees working together to make the mattress for those people that are living in the olive growth next to the refugee camp in Moria.....	On the road again 17.02 2020, Mytilene, Lesvos Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace. We were invited to help establish the plastic recycling un...	Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace 14.02 2020, Mytilene, Lesvos
Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace 10.02 2020, Mytilene, Lesvos	Value of art in social fabric, meeting no. 4 05.02 2020, Ghent Developing strategies and methodologies to question value of art and relations between artists, funders and the community.	Communication 02.02 2020, Graz Exercise that shifts the communication beyond obvious...people are using wooden branches to make the sound / rhythmical messages gently moving the fin...	Examining space in the Marienplatz 02.02 2020, Graz Preparations for the exhibition that will happen in the beginig of May organized by rotor Zentrum f�r zeitgen�ssische Kunst.
Christmas Market at GTC Centre: happy buyer 25.12 2019, Gtc Centre, New Belgrade One of the happy buyers from the GTC Center with her new purchase on the cigarette break.	Christmas Market at GTC Centre 24.12 2019, Gtc Centre, New Belgrade We were invited to take part on the Christmas Market organised by GTC Business Center. For us this was completely new opportunity to get in touch with...	Christmas Market at GTC Centre - Products 24.12 2019, Gtc Centre, New Belgrade In this occasion we offered part of our new production made with extruder and new moulds.	Last Day in the Krnjaca Camp 14.12 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp This is now our last day in the Krnjaca camp. It is strange to see the space empty and cleaned in the same state as we found it the first time we came...
Packing 11.12 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp All our stuff is packed and we are waiting for our friend Max to come with a van to transport it to the new places. Chow our third member of minipogon...	Winter Storage 11.12 2019, Magacin Most of our stuff including all machines we placed in the basement of the Magacin. Magacin is placed in the same courtyard with Praksa, the workshop w...	Even our Trash Is Beautiful! 11.12 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Second day of cleaning and dismantling the workshop. We keep all the rests, so called "trash" from our work, as this is the material for the most inte...	Barrack Bar Mould 11.12 2019, Fine Arts Faculty Belgrade Pedja, te assistent on Sculptors department of Fine arts Academy is advancing with the mould for the Barrack Bar. Very economically we managed to engr...
Rachel's Bowl 09.12 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Last week in the Krnjaca camp. We are packing and already taking things. Rachel Klipa, running Community Arty Center in Pittsburgh is our last guest ...	Looking for the new workshop space - Adra 19.11 2019, Adra, Borca Another place we visited is a day refugee center Adra, run by adventist charity organization Adra. It is one of the rare places where a day activities...	Looking for the new workshop space 18.11 2019, Trudbenik One of the options for the new workshop space came to be housing blocks where former workers of Trudbenik factory are resisting as factory went bankru...	Autmn Forestation 09.11 2019, Juzni Bulevar On the initiative of our friend and initial member of our collective Danilo Prnjat, who bought 30 seedlings of beautiful trees Pawlinia Officialis we ...
Leaflets Minipogon 09.11 2019, Cluj, ARTA Within the project Reshape we are currently taking part in and so bridging the economical problems for our work (no payment have ar4rived yet) we re s...	Injector structure finished 07.11 2019, praksa Maker space The structure of the injector is almost done, so now comes the electronic parts..	Symposium on Circular Economy 06.11 2019, Government of Serbia Somehow we found ourselves on the plenary discussion of the Ministry of Energetics on introducing Circular Econoimy standards in Serbia... All is on l...	Bye Bye Krnjaca 06.11 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp We had a meeting with the management of the Commissariat for refugees who are managing the camps, and were informed that we have to leave the workshop...
1st collaboration with Ecoplastics 05.11 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Ecoplastics called us as they wanted to land our shredder for shredding 200 PET plastic bottles for their experiments in making pavement tiles. But we...	1st collaboration with Ecoplastics 2 05.11 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The workshop was filled with the piles of plastic bottles which at the end of the day were successfully converted in two big sacks of shredded PET.	Barrack Bar Mould 05.11 2019, Fine Arts Faculty Belgrade It is time to seriously take over the building of the Barrack Bar mould. It is going to be a genuine product of our one year work in Krnjaca refugee ...	New machine on the way - Injector 04.11 2019, praksa Maker space Our experimental combo Extruder-injector was an interesting attempt to combine two machines, but it had a lot of deficiencies, especially in the terms...
Posthuman Work 01.11 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp With a little help of our friends, namely Reza's new cat Karona is helping with sorting the plastic lids..	Shredder on Sale (Pro Mlin) 28.10 2019, Pro Mlin A engeneer we are collaborating with Pro Mlin (Dalibor) made a great all in steel shredder. It is on sale for 2.000eur. It is really a piece of art.	Busy day in the Workshop 18.10 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Making new tests with the extruder is the thing to do now. Daniela, girl employed in Commissariat, arist and scientist by vocation, visited us and eng...	New Extruded Objects 17.10 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Lots of new products from HDPE plastic made on the extruder. Everything done in one day!
Back to the Camp 13.10 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp After a longer period of absence, summer vacations, building machines in Albania and the exhibition we are returning to our workshop in the Camp. Ther...	Finissage with Recycle Kitchen #1 04.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Friends and curious people from the street are joining the finissage. Luckily Bermet prepared plenty of food. The atmosphere is nice and friendly.	Finissage with Recycle Kitchen 04.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Bermet is preparing 'recycled' snacks arranging them in recycled bowls. The finissage party is about to start.	Finissage with Recycle Kitchen #2 04.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Friends and curious people from the street are joining the finissage. We even extended the gallery space to the exterior.
Exhibition View - Plastic Sheets 03.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Plastic boards in different patterns produced from PP (Polypropylene) displayed as part of the exhibition. The plastic sheets are production material ...	Minipogon's Admin 03.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade A book of economic transactions from Minipogons workshop in Krnjaca camp, the key of the workshop, etc are also displayed as part of the exhibition.	Troubles with the Screw 03.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade While working with the Extruder at one point the small screw from the hopper which was not well fastened fell of and got stuck between the extrusion s...	Machines on Display 03.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade In the middle of a very small gallery space we displayed 2 of our machines - shredder and extruder and even made them work during the days of the exhi...
New Extruded Items #2 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.	Wea are Living Interesting Times 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Three wall watches showing time in Ahwaz, Krnjaca and Kualalumpur are hanging in our exhibition space.	Clip Earrings 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade New line of clip earrings made form PP plastic sheets.	Extruded Plate 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big Extruded plate, preparing dishes for the Friday finissage with Recycling Kitchen.
New Extruded Items #4 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.	Hanging Earrings 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Drop-shape hanging earring on its new owner. Made from PP plastic sheet.	HDPE Big Fruit Bowls #1 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big size bowls made of separated HDPE plastic, provided by Cap for Handicap (cep za hendikep). Each approx 500gr.	New Extruded Items 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.
New Extruded Items #3 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.	Road works outside the gallery 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade In the course of our exhibition the big road works with lots of noise and smelly gases were running in the exterior. It took exactly one week to put t...	HDPE Big Fruit Bowls #2 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Big size bowls made of separated HDPE plastic, provided by Cap for Handicap (cep za hendikep). Each approx 500gr.	Tijana extruding the Plate 02.10 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Aluminium dish was used as a support for extruding a big plate. The plates will be used for serving food on Friday finissage with Bermet and Rcycling ...
Starting a Spectroscope 30.09 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Spectroscope is a device which will allow us to recognize different types of plastic even if they are not marked. The ordered parts are slowly arrivin...	The Open Workshop at ULUPUDS Gallery 28.09 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade During one week we will be presenting our work in the Small gallery of Applied Arts in Belgrade (ULUPUDS Gallery), where we are also moving a part of ...	Living in Interesting Times 24.09 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp We are living in the interesting times, in many ways. So we make a new line of wall watches to underline this!	The Workshop Day in front of the Nivica School 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania The usual working day in Nivica on a plateau in front of the school.
Going to Workshop in Nivica 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania Arrived to our final destination Nivica. This is how looks our usual walk to the working place in the school in the village center. On the way we also...	Workshop in the School, Nivica 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania The worksop in the Nivica school finally starts to attract attention of the local villagers, and they could try the machines themselves.	Cleaning the Area from Plastic Trash 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania We made an action of collecting plastic trash from the local area, and now the plastic has to be separated and cleaned for the further processing in t...	The test with extrusion machine 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania The local villager, Miklosh very fast learned to use the extrusion machine and is making beautiful objects.
The first test 12.09 2019, Nivica, Albania After the workshop we brought the first made object produced from the local trash to the local bar (the only one in village) and served the snacks fro...	Machines Arriving to Tepelena 10.09 2019, Tepelena, Albania After 7 hours of driving in packed van we arrived to Tepelena, where we will pass the night before going to Nivica.	Combo Assembled 08.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana The Combo is now assembled and we are doing the first tests in the Tulla workshop.	With a Little Help From our Friends 08.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana Tomorrow the machines should be moved to Nivica village in south Albania, and we have help from voloneers and artists from a local nearing workshop, w...
Assembling Compressor 04.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana The compressor is almost finished. For this time the decision was made to orient the oven horizontally, not vertically as in Precious Plastic blueprin...	New Metal Cutting Machine in Tulla 02.09 2019, Tirana Among other things we had to buy tool for cutting metal bars. Bella, a young volunteer is learning how to use the tool and taking over the cutting. Th...	Building machines in Tirana 02.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana We are invited to lead the building of machines in Tirana with Tek Bunkeri. Afterwards the machines will be brought to village Nivica. At the moment w...	Assembling Combo 02.09 2019, Tulla, Tirana The big motor 2,2kw will be used for operating shredder and extruder. The motor shaft is mounted with extruder screw and shredder shaft now for the te...
Buying materials & tools 02.09 2019, Tirana In Tirana we have to build all the workshop from scratch, so we are buying most of the materials in small hardware shop next to Tulla art-space which ...	Tirana Cargo Bicycle 31.08 2019, Tirana We are in Tirana, where we arrived by invitation of Tek Bunkeri to build a set of machines and take them to southern village Nivica. On the Tirana str...	New Products - Earrings 29.08 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The rests of the thin boards are used for making clip earrings.	Robust Big Bowl Blue (PP) 28.08 2019, Minipogon Big robust bowl made of PP plastic with uneven finishing and tender colors. 580gr; 45eur
Pink Big Bowl PP 28.08 2019, Minipogon Pink and red PP plastic bowl, very smooth on touch. with fine finishing. 500gr; 45eur	Transparent Bowl PP 28.08 2019, Mala galerija ULUPUDS, Belgrade Bopwl made of transparent PP plastic, with colored dots, with a fine finishing. 450gr; 45eur	Secession Golden Blue Bowl HDPE 28.08 2019, Minipogon Mix of golden and colored HDPE plastic flakes combine into big bowl of secession pattern. 550gr; 45eur	Technicolor Big Bowl PP 28.08 2019, Minipogon PP plastic bowl in Technicolor colors, very smooth on touch. 500gr; 45eur
Green HDPE Bowl 28.08 2019, Minipogon Mix of green HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit bowl. 450gr; 45eur	Purple HDPE Bowl 28.08 2019, Minipogon Mix of purple and coloured HDPE plastic flakes combine into shallow fruit bowl. 450gr; 45eur	Black HDPE Bowl 28.08 2019, Minipogon Black HDPE plastic flakes combined with colored dots into bowl with fine dripping finishing. 450gr; 45eur	Coloured Bowl HDPE 28.08 2019, Minipogon Mix of HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit bowl. 550gr; 45eur
Green & Coloured HDPE Bowl 28.08 2019, Minipogon Mix of green and colored HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit bowl. 500gr; 45eur	Orange dotted Big HDPE Bowl 28.08 2019, Minipogon Colored HDPE plastic with predominantly orange tone makes beautiful pattern of a big fruit bowl with somewhat robust finishing. 500gr; 45eur	Breaking a Chair 21.08 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Finally we are back from vacations and the workshop is full of new plastic pieces ready for breaking and shredding. Reza took a challenge to de-fragme...	Workshop in Petnica 07.08 2019, Petnica, Valjevo For the Petnica Summer course for the talented high-school students we worked with a designers group. They were resrching the ways to process differen...
Workshop in Petnica 07.08 2019, Valjevo, Petnica Traveling to Petnica, science development center near Valjevo, where we will give a workshop on plastic recycling to a group of scholars.	New contigent of materials 06.08 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp As the exhibition is finished we finally could bring all of the plastics which were kept there on display. There will be a lots of work today...	Injection Mould for the Shroom 06.08 2019, Fine Arts Faculty Belgrade The professor on the Fine Arts Faculty, Raj�a, offered us to make the first test mould casted in aluminum... We came to the fraculty department to do ...	Peđa finishing the injection mould 06.08 2019, Fine Arts Faculty Belgrade It was necessary to thread the hole to the mould and make canals.
Shredder box for Cuba 06.08 2019, Post Office Belgrade The shredder box goes to Cuba, via Amsterdam (Louis Fernandez, a friend who is organising a collaboration with the local fab-lab)	Transporting the cargo bicycle 02.08 2019, Belgrade The cargo bicycle we constructed two months ago had to be moved from the NNK boat to the Camp.	Transporting the cargo bicycle 02.08 2019, Belgrade It took a whole day journey, approx. 6 hours to move the cargo from New Belgrade side to Krnjača on foot.	Pashto - Serbian Clasess 01.08 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Spontaneous language lessons (Pashto / Dari / Serbian / English) are taking place in the work breaks. Wais, an afghan guy talented for languages is ma...
Shredder Box Remont 01.08 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today there was a problem with the shredder box and we used this opportunity to do a general remont. Here are Khairullah and Wais leading the operatio...	Preparing the Plastics 31.07 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The exhibition is over and finally we could bring all of the plastic resources which served as decoration there to the workshop and start preparing it...	Our 1st purchase of waste plastic from neighbourning Roma Settlment 31.07 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp When we went to a Roma settlement to find a young guy D�evad and give him a bowl in which fabrication he took part last winter when Roma settlers brok...	New Oven 26.07 2019, Ada Ciganlija We got a new oven which is something bigger and more solid then the one we are already using. We separated it and brought to the Praksa workshop. When...
Caps from the Camp 23.07 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp As all our plastic resources were captured in the exhibition installation we were left without materials for work. Therefore Noorullah took an initiat...	Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade 05.07 2019, Cultural Center Belgrade Silence is Deafness Here	Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade 05.07 2019, Cultural Center Belgrade Silence is Deafness Here	Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade 05.07 2019, Cultural Center Belgrade Silence is Deafness Here
Mosaic Table Board 26.06 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Khairulla is filling the gaps between triangular plastic tiles with the black silicon. The board will be used for a small hexagonal coffee and tea ...	3d prototypes 24.06 2019, Polyhedra Most of the prototypes of the selected ideas on the open call are ready. We are waiting for some more to continue with the new steps of making the ...	Green Ideas Finale 18.06 2019, Erste Bank We took part in Green Ideas competition. The process of selection resulted kind of odd in relation to the open calls initial proclamations. As we p...	Making Cricket Bat 12.06 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Khairulla and other guys came to the studio in hurry to make a cricket bat. It all took 15min, and they rapidly went out to play.
CNC machine electronics box 06.06 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The CNC machine had some missing parts for housing the electronics, so an old shampoo bottle was improvised as one	CNC machine 04.06 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp CNC machine being assembled Donation from the Polyhedra Belgrade, www.polyhedra.co	Resources Supply for June 30.05 2019, Backyard storage This time we purchased 18kg of discarded plastic from our now habitual supplier on the Zemun Flee market, and this is the maximum which could fit in...	Assembling the New Shredder 29.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Finally we are slowly starting to assemble the new double shredder. With it it will be possible to shred 2 types of plastic at the time without a n...
# Me Too 26.05 2019, Mixer festival At the Mixer festival of Circular economy we managed to make contacts with kindred organisations (Trash Hero Serbia, 3d Republic, etc) who also sup...	Mixer / Day #2 25.05 2019, Mixser festival The whole process of recycling plastic from selecting, washing to shredding and injecting it in to the 'star' mouldes has been continuously demonst...	Mixer / Day #1 24.05 2019, Miekser festival Taking part on the Mixer Festival at the first sight seemed kind of discouraging, as our machines being made by ourselves didn't matched their secu...	Curious crowd 16.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp There is always new guys in the camp who peek through the window of of our studio in the camp. We chat a little bit and invite them to join us insi...
Mould by Comission 15.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp A dutch fashion designer Danielle Van Camp commissioned us to produce a mould for the hat stripes. Here it is assembled but still needs some improv...	Safety Regulations 14.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Keeping safe is very important especially for the youngest mates :) such as Mortaza.	Table-board Triangular Tiles Design 09.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp An initiative came from Jadranka Ahlgren, very active retired architect to produce a small oriental coffee tables. This is our approach to the tabl...	Extending the Workshop 08.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Khairula has an experience of working in car mechanic workshop in Afghanistan so he could very fast take over lots of tasks requiring technical ski...
Following Up Selected Design Ideas at Polyhedra 08.05 2019, Polyhedra Borko Jovanovic responsible for Plyhedra Fab Lab offered us a possibility to organise a working meeting with the authors of selected design ideas s...	06.05 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp	Fijuk Fair in Novi Sad 25.04 2019, Svilara, Novi Sad Fijuk Fair of alternative publishing this month had an extra edition in Novi Sad. The event was taking place in new municipal cultural center Svila...	Shredding full speed 23.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp To break the plastic in smaller pieces, so it can fit the shredder, is a task that requires some more strength, luckily there are always some guys ...
Awarded idea: Shrooms (Dimitrije Mi�ović) 20.04 2019, Vi�a likovna �kola, Beograd Wall hangers inspired by the form of mushrooms in basic geometrical shapes and colors.	Awarded idea: Modular Cube (Mihajlo Ećim, Srđan Lazić, Andrijević Marija) 20.04 2019, Srednja umetnička, Ni� Modular hollow cube, could be used as basic element for building tool recipients for desk, office or workshop purposes, also offers potential for p...	Idea for Development: Honey (Vanja Grubić) 20.04 2019, Vi�a likovna �kola, Beograd Idea was presented as three elements of Candle support. We asked the author to develop the idea based on one modular element. Further the idea was ...	Awarded idea: Attachable Trash Bin (Anđela Tasković) 20.04 2019, Vi�a likovna �kola, Beograd Trash bin in round and square form could be attached to the working table.
20.04 2019,	Idea for Development: Polaroid Frame (Tijana Ćirić) 20.04 2019, Vi�a likovna �kola, Beograd Polaroid frame for pictures. It was necessary to adapt the idea in order to ease the fabrication of the mould.	Awarded idea: Cups (Petra Kovačević) 20.04 2019, Srednja umetnička, Ni� Set of three cups of refined shape.	Spanish Video Artist Discovering New Medium of Expression 18.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp An old friend from Spain who visited Belgrade for his exhibition came to visit our workshop in the camp. He made some experiments with the extruder ...
Mastering the Extrusion 17.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp We brought new contingent of plastic from our new discovered supply in Zemun flea-market privately owned scrap-yard. Also some of the new-arrived g...	Would you like some coffee or tea? 11.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The guys are using a window as a shortcut if they want to borrow from us anything they might need at the moment, such as tools, cigarettes, or simil...	Mortaza and the Rabbit 10.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Mortaza got the rabbit and came to show it to us, his dream is to have a cat when he finally arrive to Germany..	I made this 05.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Bowl made on the extruder
I made this 05.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Bowl made on the extruder	Arteza in action 04.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Our close friend who is working with minipogon for some time now is always finding the ways of improving either the products we are making, suggest...	Extrusion talents 03.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp	Extrusion talents 03.04 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp A group of guys came to our studio, for the first time, tried to work on the extruder and some of them without much instructions did a great job, f...
New Guys Joining 26.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The barrack where our workshop is placed remained empty during all of the winter, but with the spring new arrivals are coming, and this week we got...	Cap for Handicap Festival 23.03 2019, Belgrade Market The Cap for Handicap organization dedicated to collecting plastic caps through public campaign in order to secure wheelchairs for the ones needing ...	Cap for Handicap Festival - Caps 23.03 2019, Belgrade Market On the festival visitors were arriving with the bags full of colorful HDPE caps. Some of this went to our shredder... All of the caps we could shred...	Towel Hanger Prototype 19.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Dejan had an idea to try to make a small foldable hanger from the remaining pieces of the board he bought from us.
Ali Hazrat 14.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Our new close collaborator is Ali Hazrat. He is only 19, but knows lots of different things, so as chemical composition of plastics, recycling mach...	Ali Hazrat 14.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp	Dividing plastic by color 13.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp After cleaning the plastic we have to divide it by the color, to be able to control visual patterns of future products.	Friends 12.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Mortaza 8 year old boy comes to our studio almost every time we are there, sometimes just for fun other times he engages in the work very seriously....
Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim 11.03 2019, The second day of the extended workshop we were about to do the main part of building the cargo bicycle which included putting the wheels and attac...	Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim 10.03 2019, NNK - under Gazela bridge, Belgrade It was beautiful sunny day and we set the workshop space on the bank of the river in front of NNK boat. Rasim, who made hundreds of cargo bicycles ...	March 8th Fijuk Fair 08.03 2019, Fijuk Fair Fair of alternative publishing and crafts happening once a month in Imago Center, Belgrade. This is our 3rd month taking part as Minipogon there an...	Students from college of fine and applied arts visiting 07.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp
Afternoon activities 07.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Since the weather started to get warmer many more of the camp inhabitants are visiting us in the studio. Very fast they are able to get involved in ...	Students of Fine and Applied Arts Visit 07.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we had a visit of over 20 art students and 3 professors. It was conceived as a practical training for the students also potentially participa...	Mayla, a volonteer from Berlin 07.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Mayla is volunteering in Sarajevo and had worked in the refugee camp there until the access to the volunteers was denied. Before returning to Berlin...	Fusing Cut-offs Test 06.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp An interesting test done by fusing cut-offs left from cutting the laminates for the clip-boards. The quality of fusion is very good and very happy ...
Reading time 05.03 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sometimes one needs to stop and think	Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim Ferizović 03.03 2019, NNK - under Gazela bridge, Belgrade Otvorena radionica izrade kargo bicikla pod vođstvom Rasima Ferizovića Subota 9. mart Ispod mosta Gazela sa Novobeogradske strane na p...	Plastic Meka 03.03 2019, Zemun Flea Market We went to the Zemun Flea market in order to find second wheel for the cargo bicycle. We did found it but also our new source of plastic resources....	At Ajkula's (The Shark) 01.03 2019, Gazela Searching for the material for the cargo bicycle we visited Ajkula a man who is running a cement factory next to the NNK boat. He complained how Ro...
Danilo dropped by, just to say hello 28.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp After a long time not being able to work with us due to many different obligations, finally today Danilo had some time to spare and join us to work ...	Red is the color 27.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sometimes we are very lucky to find many pieces of plastic in the same color	Transporting the Estruder from Miksali�te 26.02 2019, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Finally we are leaving the Miksali�te completely taking all our remaining things there to Krnjača. Now we will have all of the machines on one...	Washing to begin with 22.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp These cups are collected on two different locations in the city, one is EU Info Center where they collect plastic cups for us, after events they ha...
1984. plastic I 22.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Struggle to break one old plastic barrel which was made in 1984 and still looks and behaves like new.	1984. plastic II 22.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Almost done, with a little help from friends in the camp and from the boat...	Collecting Plastic Waste from the Mexican Fastfood 21.02 2019, private location Going to appointment in Cultural Center Grad for them collecting for us plastic we made a stop at Burrito Fast-Food. Realising that all of their di...	Quiet afternoon 19.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Due to very nice weather almost all the people living in the Camp where rather outside playing sports, we didn't have many visitors it was a good t...
Brand new/old resources 19.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Streets of Belgrade are truly inspiring, every time our friend N.M. goes for a walk minipogon is working full speed.	Minipogon on Trade Show (Radmin Festival, Bristol) 16.02 2019, Radmin Festival, The Cube Cinema, Bristol In the scope of the Radmin Festival, festival of radical administration and business there was a Trade Show (http://trade-show.info/shows/trade-sho...	Kids department 12.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Because the machines are not for kids to use, we let them draw on the walls...and enjoy great decoration surrounding us.	After work chat 12.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Who is going and where, or is it maybe better to stay...
Minipogon Manual Vol.2 11.02 2019, Belgrade Download pdf This is the 2nd updated version of the Minipogon's...	Minipogon in Augustin 08.02 2019, Vienna After visiting us in Belgrade Natalie Deewan wrote an article about Minipogon in Vienna magazine Augustin..	Vlasto, join the conversation! 07.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Vlasta, who is working on the maintenance in the camp, likes to drop by and have a coffee from time to time.	Friends from Belgium and Austria, visiting 07.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp People who are coming to Belgrade for different reasons usually are very curious to see our studio and work with us.
Key-chains for KIRS 06.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp On the suggestion of camp management we fabricated the key chains with the support board for the all 18 barracks in the camp.	Note-books 06.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Hard cover note-books with replaceable papers in sizes 7x7 and 7x9cm, available in diverse color patterns. Price 3 eur.	Clip-boards 4 05.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.	Clip-boards 05.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.
Clip-boards 2 05.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.	Clip-boards 3 05.02 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.	Plastic Boards 23.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Cutting and filing the thin plastic boards (2 and 3mm) obtained by compressing shredded plastic with T-shirt press. We are mostly planning to use t...	Visit from Handicap Cap 17.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we received a visit to our studio from the group of Handicap Cap (Čep za hendikep). Handicap Cap is an humanitarian initiative dedicated ...
New nozzle - testing 16.01 2019, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade The new nozzle, that will be directly attached to the mould, is put to test and it is working just fine!	Extruded Bowl 16.01 2019, private location Very light but super strong bowl made with a help of the extruder machine. For the mould was used the basketball ball.	Redha in action 15.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Our friend Redha is getting more activated in the studio work. And also he is bringing some novelties in the production process.	Tests with the PET #2 09.01 2019, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade The new nozzle for the extrusion is ready and we are attempting to do a test with the PET
Tests with the PET #2: liquid 09.01 2019, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade The PET has significantly higher melting point that PP and HDPE so we set the temperature to over 300 degrees. As the result the PET was coming out ...	Tests with the PET #2: result 09.01 2019, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade But then cooled down, it becomes very brittle and easily breaks. Apart from this the gasses produced in the process are difficult to bare with.	Shredded PET 08.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Collected PET plastic is shredded and ready for the first test. Btw. PET plastic is most commonly used and most easy to collect as all water and so...	Meling PET - 1st test 08.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp The 1st test of melting PET plastic has been performed using sheet press. We have put just a small quantity of shredded plastic to see how it will ...
4 years detained in Serbia and proud 07.01 2019, Krnjaca - refugee camp Some people from the Camp are coming to our workshop for a chat and some like to work on the machines more.	Mould for the PET Cube 04.01 2019, Praxa / Makerspace The mould for the PET cube is almost done. The works for the new extruder/injection nozzle are advancing so the first test could be done soon.	Testing the Market 28.12 2018, Belgrade Night Market Deciding to continue with testing the market around the festivities we hired a 1/2 stall on the Belgrade Night market. It was lots of fun, our frie...	Blue Grey Pattern (PP) 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sample of a blue grey pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
Red Dotted Pattern (PP) 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sample of a red dotted pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.	Blue Grey White Pattern (PP) 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sample of a blue grey white pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.	Blue Dotted Pattern (PP) 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sample of a blue dotted pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.	New Collection of Watches 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Square boards were used to make wall watches. (photo: N. Deewan)
3d printed cup prototype 27.12 2018, Polyhedra We made a first test prototype for the cup with 3d printer at Polyhedra. When we are happy with how it looks and feels we couls think of milling th...	Pink Grey Pattern (PP) 27.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sample of a pink grey pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.	New Kids on the Camp 26.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we had an invasion of the kids we saw for the first time in the camp. As we soon understood with their families just a day before they were s...	New Kids on the Camp 26.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp
Printing the Glas Prototype at Polyhedra 26.12 2018, Polyhedra This morning we visited Polyhedra to see what are the possibilities for producing a mouold in CNC there. As we had a 3d file of the glass we were c...	New Kids on the Camp 26.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Action wall painting and learning some English..	New Kids on the Camp 26.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Our small visitors from neighboring Roma community are showing lots of interest for the procedure of plastic recycling. They indeed helped us (also ...	A Motor for the new shredder 25.12 2018, Bolex, Vojvođanska 106, Surčin We went to see the motors for the new shredder to a place in Surčin, and found a good one. 1.5 kw, 70rpm. It was even cheaper than the one we ...
Collecting Aluminium for Casting Moulds 25.12 2018, Birčaninova We also started to collect the aluminum for casting the molds. By chance Deki, a guy working at CZKD cafe said to us he was for a long time collect...	Konkurs za idejno re�enje dizajna proizvoda od recikla�ne plastike 24.12 2018, Beograd Izazov u 3E dizajnu (3E=Ekologija+Ekonomija+Etika) Minipogon / 24.12.2018. � 01.03.2019. Poziv je upućen mladim dizajnerim...	Quest for recatgular tubes on the Scrapyard 23.12 2018, Sek-Si scrapyard in �arkovo We were asked to cast a cube from PET plastic which matched with our intentions to do some tests with PET on the extruder. For casting the cube we ...	Fijuk stand 21.12 2018, Fijuk Sajam, CUK Imago another view of the bowls and pots during the event
MP on Fijuk 21.12 2018, Fijuk Sajam, CUK Imago We are in the phase of testing different markets, so we decided to join the Fijuk Fair of Alternative Publishing. The Fair was not too much visited...	Assistant 20.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sometimes kids from camp are coming to our workshop mostly to play with plastic toys we collect, but also they get curious about machines and enjoy...	reza's cat 19.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp a friend from the camp has adopted a cat that goes everywhere with him.	"Importing raw material from Austria" 18.12 2018, Vienna Plastic lids collected at Wiener Deewan (even washed and dried), all together occupying 7 liter bucket approximately are soon going to be brought t...
plastic jewelry - making of 18.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp experimenting with the new possible products, having a lot of colorful boards (from the T-shirt press) we decided to make pieces for earrings or ne...	Visitor from the neighborhood 12.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp A friend Ivan who lives in the Camp neighborhood visited us today in the workshop. He and all opf his family worked in the Trudbenik factory which ...	2 mm sheet sample PP 12.12 2018, Krnjača - refugee camp With new T-shirt press we are able to produce thin plastic laminates. This is one sample made from polypropylene, 2mm thick.	Kids came to play 12.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Sometimes in the collected plastic, that is found in the streets of Belgrade, we have toys for children. This is what can happen if a child finds o...
Equipping the Workshop 11.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Long research and consultations about what kind of welding machine we should get finally ended with a decision to buy the Varstroj 160 amp. It see...	Call for the Workshops 11.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Winter days bring even more desolate mood in the Camp. We decide to make an effort to invite more people to the open workshops where with a new equ...	Key-chains for the Baracks 11.12 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Some time ago camp management suggested that we could produce the key-chains from recycled plastic for each of the 18 barracks in the Camp. Today w...	Our first online purchase 05.12 2018, Australia Our first online purchase through Precious Plastic Bazaar is just sent to Australia.
T-shirt press 28.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp A T-shirt press with which we will be able to make thin plastic laminates was donated to us by ...	Plastic Cut 27.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp In half an hour all plastic objects were cut in smaller pieces suitable for shredding. But they still have to be washed before shredding.	Processing the new contingent of plastic 27.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp At some moment Rahmani with a new brother showed up in a studio and without a question started cutting the plastic objects from a new contingent br...	New Contingent of Plastic Brought by Neboj�a 27.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Neboj�a brought us a new contingent of plastic he collected, just in a good moment as we were getting out of material for work.
More Extruded Bowls 2 22.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade The extruded bowl finished. The technique requireas lots of patience and steady hand.	The Furniture Knobs 22.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Spinning the extruded plastic directly around the special screws usually used for furniture knobs gives rather interesting designs for irregular kn...	More Extruded Bowls 22.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade More tests are being done with the Extruder and mastering of the technique continues now on Tuesdays in Miksali�te.	Cold Weather Keeps us Indoors 20.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp The temperatures had suddenly went sharp down this week and for the first time since we installed the workshop in Krnjača we are forced to wor...
Workshop in Miksaliste 14.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Zaki is trying to work with the extruder. Today we had changed the nozzle putting the one with a bigger hole, and it results a bit more difficult t...	Workshop in Miksaliste 14.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Today in Miksali�te we had lots of visits, and everybody wanted to try the extruder. There was Zaki, Sylvie Fortin, Neda Kovinić with her boyf...	Valentina and her Mother 14.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Valentina and her mother who are refugees from Kosovo and living in Miksaliste with other members of their family often come to look what we are do...	Krnjača / Day 10 13.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Another day goes by, someone is working, someone just enjoys watching others work. All in all we are having a good time.
Bowls Photo Session 13.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we were doing lots of work on finishing the bowls and taking pictures of them as we are preparing to offer them for sale.	Krnjača / Day 10 13.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp The weather is still great so we can work outside, people are joining our work day slowly. In the camp nobody rushes, the time is running slowly.	Krnjača / Day 9 12.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp We are preparing and cutting the plastic into smaller pieces for shredding.	Krnjača / Day 9 12.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Shredder seams to be the most interesting machine. Probably because the result is visible immediately.
New Objects done with Extruder 08.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade This time we are trying with the bigger shapes as a molds, such as cardboard boxes, metal trays and similar. Experimenting with more free lines, ge...	Tests with Extruder-injector 08.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade This week at Miksali�te we are continuing the experimentation with the Extruder-Injector, every time getting more in control over the process.	Tests with Extruder-injector 08.11 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade The days are still warm so we could take the machine outside but the night is falling very fast so we have to use additional illumination.	Krnjača / Day 8 07.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Next day completely different situation in the camp.Now it is again crowded. And again a lot of people are interested in what we are doing.
Krnjača / Day 8 07.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Finishing the edges is quite interesting job to do.	Empty Camp 06.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today in Krnjača the camp was emptied, no one to play cricket or sit around. After a while one guy came around and explained us why. big group...	Translucent Green 06.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Nevertheless we continue working, today we tested translucent polypropylene plastic that was shredded yesterday. The result seems to be very intere...	Krnjača / Day 7 06.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Now that the Game is on, the youngest, that have stayed, finally can see what is going on.
Krnjača / Day 6 01.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Our friends Wajid and Rahmani are joining us in the work. We took out Wajids pot from the oven and he is doing the finishing. Rahmani looks for the ...	Collecting wasted plastic 01.11 2018, Belgrade Our friend Neboj�a Milikić is our greatest provider of plastic resources. Today he delivered us big quantity of plastic he collected last days...	Krnjača / Day 6 01.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp As the rain started we brought all the machines inside. Wajid and Chow are cleaning the shredder, while our friend the cleaner of the camp joied us ...	Krnjača / Day 6 01.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp View of our working place. Its quite a mess although we try to keep it tidy. We hope to be allowed to install some shelves, at least for displaying...
Plastic for Shredding 01.11 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp All plastic collected bu Neboj�a is brought to our workshop space in Krnjača camp. We are slowly starting to select it and shredd it. Thanks t...	Extruder - 1st Products 31.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Some first tests with the Extruder are being done, and we still have to excersize a lot in order to fully dominate this technique. We made a knife ...	Workshop in Miksaliste 31.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade We are continuing Wednesday sessions in Miksali�te, with the Extruder machine that we had left there. Chow is setting it, so that the temperature c...	Experimenting with the Extruder 31.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade We continue to work in our regular Wednesday working terms in Miksali�te. There we left one machine Extruder-Injector that till now we havent had t...
Bowl HDPE 30.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp A colorful bowl made from HDPE bottle lids, with new method of iron finishing.	Krnjača / Day 5 30.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Wajid is pouring shredded plastic in the bowl. He is doing it very carefully.	Barack 15 emptied 30.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp To our surprise, today arriving to our working place in Krnjača camp we found that the barrack 15. where our workshop studio is placed was clo...	Krnjača / Day 4 25.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Cleaning and shredding plastic,every participant has a task to do.
Plastic Tiles 25.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Plastic tiles 1cm wide, could be used for diverse purposes.. We are planning to make key chain pendant from them for the camp management purposes.	New Bowls from Krnjača 25.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp New bowls have been made in our new working space in Krnjača refugee camp.	Shredded plastic 25.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp We are separating shredded plastic by colors as well (apart from plastic types PP and HDPE). For the moment we shredded almost all of plastic thing...	Shredding Plastic 25.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp We are catching up with the working routine in the camp. Usually arriving around 12h and starting to prepare for the work. Taking machines outside,...
Krnjača / Day 3 24.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp In the meantime of shredding we are also using the occasion to learn some pashto.	Krnjača / Day 3 24.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we had with us a Colombian artist Juan David Galindo, who in couple occasions joined us already in the workshops in Miksali�te.	Krnjača / Day 3 24.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp While we are starting to work our young friends are arriving from the lunch and gathering on the window of our workshop space.	Krnjača / Day 2 23.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp ...and in the end it was a very productive day
Krnjača / Day 2 23.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp At the beginning everybody we're just looking how process is conducted...	Krnjača / Day 2 23.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Then they joined... taking different tasks, shredding, washing and cutting plastic.. Wajid, Ahmed, Nagib, Rahman, etc.	Day 1 - arranging the space 22.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Working space arranged! Machines, plastic, tools now have their place in this colorful room. This is going to be our working space for next 5 month...	Day 1 - arranging the space 22.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Working space arranged! Everything is prepared for tomorrow, workshops can beguine!
Day 1 - bringing equipment from Miksaliste 22.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Arranging equipment - transferring machines, tools and plastic from the van to the new asined space in Krnjaca refugee camp (Building no. 15) with ...	Workshop in Miksaliste 17.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Shredder is working properly again. With our guest from Columbia and new friends from Afghanistan we are shredding plastic nomber 05 - PP, at the sa...	Assigned Space in Krnjaca Camp 11.10 2018, Krnjaca - refugee camp Today we visited Krnjaca camp to check the space that was assigned to us for installing our machines. The room is spacious and full of light. Only ...	Ussual Workshop in Miksaliste 10.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade We are continuing our usual Wednesday activities in Miksaliste refugee day center. Preparing all PP plastic for shredding. An unfortunate thing hap...
Sealing the Oven 05.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade Sealing the oven with the high heat resistance silicon. In that way we hope oven will maintain better the heat and leak less energy, so as the poss...	Workshop in Miksaliste 03.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade We have continued with workshops which we have been doing every Wednesday in Miksaliste in Belgrade. Shoes seller from Pakistan have joined us t...	Setting up the storage place in Miksaliste 02.10 2018, Miksaliste - Refugee Day Center, Belgrade After a month we are back in Miksaliste, cleaning and setting up the storage place and looking how better to arrange it for the coming cold season ...	Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Urosh and his husband keychains 22.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Urosh and his husband who hosted us on one of our first visits to Vienna got a keychains made from one piece of plastic board fabricated on the spot...
Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gathering 22.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Closing event at the Viktor-Adles-Markt. All machines and tools are gone, we only stayed with the produced objects, displaying them, giving away to...	EFC meeting camp in Rome - Workshop Day 2 22.09 2018, Centocelle - Rome Today we have visited High Art School in Centocelle part of the City of Rome where we have taken a part in public event "City and work: creating...	Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gabriele's neckless 22.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Gabriele Michalitsch got a designed neck-less made on the spot.	Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gathering 22.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Closing event at the Viktor-Adles-Markt. All machines and tools are gone, we only stayed with the produced objects, displaying them, giving away to...
Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Exchange with Peter Haumer 22.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Peter Haumer (Papierfabrik) brought us grappa (which we served on the spot) 2 homemade marmalade jars and soap from Greek self-managed factory to e...	5th working day @ Stand 129 - Curious Passers By 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna By the end of the working day we displayed all of the produced balls and objects that made lots of people approach driven by curiosity.	5th working day - Hexagon Bowls 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Five hexagon bowls, all except one produced at Victor-Adler-Markt.	5th working day @ Stand 129 - Curious Passers By 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna By the end of the working day we displayed all of the produced balls and objects that made lots of people approach driven by curiosity.
5th working day - Ussual working tasks 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Today is the last day and situation on the Stand 129 is a little bit tense, as we are trying to finish all the works, have the last lunch/discussio...	EFC meeting camp in Rome - Workshop Day 1 21.09 2018, Baobab Refuggee Place in Rome Part of Minipogon have visited Baobab Refuggee Center in Rome during EFC meeting Idea Camp...	5th working day - VAMarkt Serie 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna All obejcts produced at Victor-Adler-Markt displayed together. The colors dominating shades of blue, black and white are provided by the vegetable ...	Machines set back at Circular Economy exhibition @ AIL 21.09 2018, AIL, Vienna Machines are returned back at the Circular Economy Exhibition at AIL together with more material and will stay there until the 26th of September wh...
5th working day @ Stand 129 - with Stefanie Wuschitz on Value 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Our last guest Stefanie Wuschitz (MZ*Baltazar) joined us for today's lunch in discussion on Value.	5th working day - Uma's plastic lids bowl 21.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna A bowl was made with the colorful plastic lids of HDPE (2) plastic type brought by Uma. The white base proceeded from detergent bottles brought by ...	4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Improving Shredder 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Stefan Schlee together with Chow today was busy with improving the shredder performance so no plastic bits will be any more lost in vain.	4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Lale on Work 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Our todays guest for the lunch-break conversation was Lale Rodgarkia-Dara. Lale is herself artist, sound musician and has experience in working in...
4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Misho Udarnik 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Misho Kapetanovic, who was assigned by the Wienwoche Festival to help us with the translations on the Stand is now completely integrated in all wo...	4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Shades of Blue 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Misho is finishing with all blue plastic boxes we collected from the Victor-Adler-Markt. They are giving particular jeans style pattern which make...	4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Lale on Work 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Todays lunch was kindly prepared by Rory Archer, so we were a bit more relieved from this task.	4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Pressing the moulds 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna When the mould is took out from the compressor it is very important to let it naturally cool down under high pressure. For this purpose various ha...
4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Blue Plastic Crates 20.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Lots of blue plastic crates collected on the market are ready to be shredded today.	3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Performing usual working tasks at Victor-Adler-Markt.	3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Gabriele Michalitsch on Economy 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Todays discussion guest was Gabriele Michalitsch, a professor on political economy at Vienna University, with whom we discussed on the topics relat...	3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - filling moulds 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Pouring shredded plastic in to the mold. Different mixtures of colored plastic is coming through, in predominance white, blue and black.
3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Performing the usual working tasks on Victor-Adler-Markt.	3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Accident with the Extruder 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna At some point weldings on the extruder pipe had loosen and it started spinning around detached from its base pulling all electric and heating cabl...	3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Jeans Line 19.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna New square mold is being tested with Victor-Adler-Markt plastic resources, providing 'jeans' line design. The pot on the lef side is sparkled with ...	2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Peter on WORK 18.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Our todays guest is Peter Haumer and with him we will discuss about the topic of Work in the lunch-time break.
2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - luch break / discussion 18.09 2018, Standt 129, Viktor Adler Markt, Vienna Lunch break discussion with Peter and great people form the market area...	2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Washing Plastic 18.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna We start with washing collected plastic. A Russian lady who speaks Bulgarian, Uma, who already was there yesterday came today as well bringing a ful...	1st Working Day @ Stand 129 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Misho Kapetanovic is our helper at the Stand 129 engaged by the Wienwoche Festival for helping us in translations and communication in German. But ...	1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Discussion / MATERIAL 17.09 2018, Standt 129, Viktor Adler Markt, Vienna Lunch time with great discussion about MATERIAL with the great people from the market place.
1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Discussion / MATERIAL 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Todays topic for the lunch-break is MATERIAL and for this we have special visitors: Maria Sulzer (Material Koje) and Natalie Deewan (Wiener Deewan)...	1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Testing new Forms 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna After the lunch we are proceeding with working tasks and testing some new forms from the plastic containers from the same Market.	1st Working Day @ Stand 129 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna We are receiving visitors and proceeding our usual tasks. At the moment testing the stamping of the bowls.	1st Working Day @ Stand 129 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Our work attracts passers by...
1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Lunch break 17.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna In the lunch break some occasional people also join us for the cup of pottage...	Intro-event on the Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Atmosphere at Stand 129. Various people came to see the presentation and others are approaching led by curiosity.	Intro Day - Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna People are gathering around machines and various discussions are going on. The formal presentation is going to begin.	MP Presentation on the Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna The presentation is very brief and we are letting people to ask questions.
Presentation of Minipogon on the Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Current members of Minipogon about to start the discussion with demonstration.	Demonstration on the Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Pouring shredded plastic collected from our Collection Nodes to the mold.	Cleaning the Plastic Bottles - Material Koje 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna We brought machines and collected plastic from our two collecting spots: Wiener Deewan and Material Koje, installed the machines and we are slowly ...	MP Presentation on the Stand 129 15.09 2018, Stand 129 - Vienna Some of our future guests during the week to come are also present: Peter Haumer, Stefanie Wursticz, Gabriele Michalitsch, Natalie Deewan...
Transporting plastic from Collection point -Wiener Deewan 14.09 2018, Wiener Deewan - Vienna During the whole summer the Wiener Deewan was established as Minipogons plastic collection point. Thanks to Natalie Deewan.	Circular Economy exhibition opening 04.09 2018, AIL, Vienna Opening of the Circular Economy exhibition by ARA Innovation Space Project. Chow is demonstrating extruder-injector to the visitors.	Minipogon Manual, Vol.1. english / arabic 04.09 2018, Belgrade Download whole booklet in PDF Minipogon user's manual / Towards...	Extruding Test #1 01.09 2018, AIL, Vienna After few intents we managed to achieve better form with the extruder. For this we used a glass supported on the solid flat surface that allowed th...
Visiting WUK metal workshop space in Vienna 29.08 2018, WUK, Vienna We have visited WUK metal workshop today, meeting great people and partners there and making a deals about using the space during our work in Vi...	Natalies Box 29.08 2018, WUK, Vienna Natalie (Deewan) brought to show us collection of HDPE lids of her home consumption from the period of July/August 2018. We will make an object fro...	Minipogon at Stand 129 / flier distribution 29.08 2018, WUK, Vienna We are distributing fliers and posters for the event we will be doing in Viennas 10th district at Victor-Adler-Markt, Stand 129.	Testing CNC at Macondo 28.08 2018, Macondo, Vienna Lale from MZ*Baltazars Laboratory invited us to take part in the Festival she is organizing in Macondo, an immigrant neighborhood of Vienna. Chow m...
Installing Machines at AIL 28.08 2018, AIL, Vienna We are installing machines for the ARA Innovation Space Exhibition at AIL, Vienna.	Macondo - Deportation Center 27.08 2018, Mac The first day in Macondo Festival was dedicated to setting up and situating. We still had no electricity supply so could not connect the CNC machin...	Washing Plastic in AIL Bathroom 27.08 2018, AIL, Vienna We are going to test for the first time our new Extruder-Injector Machine in the AIL Exhibition space. For this we got plastic lids that were colle...	Shredding Plastic Lids AIL 27.08 2018, AIL, Vienna The lids are dried and are going to be shredded so we could put them in the Extruder.
Defragmenting the CNC machine 26.08 2018, MZ Baltazar, Vienna We have fixed the CNC machine in MZ Baltazar that was broken and defragment it for a transportation to Macondo in Vienna.	MZ Baltazar meeting after setting up CNC machine 26.08 2018, MZ Baltazar, Vienna Making the contact with the great people (Lale and Stefanie) from MZ Baltazar and making a deal to fix CNC machine and maybe use it for our work...	Setting up a CNC 24.08 2018, MZBaltazar's Laboratory, Vienna* Chow is setting up the CNC machine to operate opensource with arduino. The idea is to use it for the Macondo festival, and also see if it could be ...	ATA Carnet 23.08 2018, Belgrade > Vienna The 3 machines are heading to Vienna where they will be presented at the ARA Exhibition and employed for Wienwoche Festival in September. For takin...
Transportation day - Belgrade to Vienna 23.08 2018, Horgo�, Hungary Custum border control at Hungarian border. Machines are checking...	Vaiting on the border for machine check 23.08 2018, Horgo�, Hungary Resting on the border after a hard working day in Praxa Makerspace while waiting at the EU border...	Making the chain connector between two motors on extruder 22.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace, Belgrade We finished the connection between 2 motors in extruder / injection. Guy from neghbouring bike shop help us with the chain connection.	Installing Heathing Elements for the Extruder-Injector 22.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Installing heating elements together with electric box, PID temperature controller...
Centering the Extruder-Injector 19.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Difficult task showed out to be centering all the extruder/injector components in line.	Flier for the Wienwoche Festival 17.08 2018, Belgrade Download flier PDF The fliers for the Winewoche Festival through which ...	Poster for the Wienwoche Festival 17.08 2018, Belgrade The posters for the Winewoche Festival through which people will be invited to join us on Victor-Adler-Markt are finished and sent for printing an...	The Square Mould Finished 17.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The square mould is finished and ready to be tested.
Building Extruder Structure 11.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace We decided to venture with a third machine not following the PP instructions. Our member Chow made proposal for building extruder and injector mach...	Visiting the refugee camp in Obrenovac 10.08 2018, Obrenovac near Belgrade Today we have visited refugee camp in Obrenovac which is the most populated camp in Serbia. Most of the inhabitants are men and there are a lot ...	Cutting Square Mould in Two 10.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The pieces for the square mold we asked Limar to water-jet for us were too big for fitting in our compressor, so we decided to cut them in two obta...	Visiting the refugee camp in Kikinda 07.08 2018, Kikinda, Serbia Today we have visited refugee camp in Kikinda which is located in Vojvodina, two and a half hour driving from Belgrade. The camp is completely i...
Visiting the refugee camp in Kikinda 07.08 2018, Kikinda, Serbia We discussed a possibility of organizing at least some part of workshops in Kikinda refugee camp. The camp is inhabited mostly by families who ...	Square Mould 04.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The metal pieces that we ordered to water-jet cut from Limar are now welded and would have to be finely grinned in order to add other components. ...	Grinding Outter Mould 04.08 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Polishing inner side of outer mold is very exhausting job and needs special tools and patience.	Collecting plastic in Vienna 03.08 2018, Material Koje Maria Sulzer from Material Koje collected plastic for the event in September on Viktor-Adlers-Markt. Chow came to separate 'good' from 'bad' plast...
Visiting refugee camp in Krnjača 02.08 2018, Refugee Camp Krnjača From September we will start to work in one of the refugee camps near Belgrade. For this we are organising visits to 3 camps - Krnjača, Obren...	Extruder-Injector / Technical Drawings Part 2 01.08 2018, -- Cross sectional diagram of the pusher, hex shaft, sprocket and extrusion screw assembly, showing ball bearing locations, attachment of the hex s...	Open Air Workshop#10 01.08 2018, Miksali�te Today we made 2 bowls with a new hexagonal bowl mould, from 2 different types of plastic 2 and 6. It seems that 2 (HDPE) gives better result in co...	Extruder-Injector / Technical Drawings Part 01.08 2018, -- Top: cross section view of hex shaft inside pusher assembly, showing ball bearing location Bottom : side view of extrusion screw inserted into ex...
Open Air Workshop#9 - Compressing 31.07 2018, Miksali�te arranging the colors from shredded plastic, making the plate. (guests from Milan)	Extruder-Injector View 31.07 2018, -- Perspective view of assembled extruder/injector concept. Coloured sections indicate critical positioning elements.	Nozzles for the Extruder-Injector 31.07 2018, Praxa / Makerspace After discussing for a long time how to make a nozzle for the extruder we happen to find the already produced threaded pipe extensions that could b...	Extruder-Injector / Upper Sprocket Position 29.07 2018, Greyscale 3d rendering of the main rotating mechanisms of the extruder: pusher, hex shaft, sprocket, ball bearing (and structural support), and ...
Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing 27.07 2018, Miksali�te and here it is, final product - hexagonal bowl raw, before polishing	Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing 27.07 2018, Miksali�te checking if everything is ok in the compressor...it takes around 20 min for one mould to be compressed. (guests from Vienna)	Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing 27.07 2018, Miksali�te combining colors (HDPE shredded plastic)in the mould, for the hexagonal bowl	Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing 27.07 2018, Miksali�te to speed up the process of cooling we are using cold water - putting the hot mold in to the water immediately after it is taken out from the compres...
Square Pot Mould Blueprint 25.07 2018, Belgrade The mould for the square pot. Its planned to be cut from 3mm steel, welded and grinded.	Open Air Workshop#7 - Compressing 16.07 2018, Miksali�te a quick break with guys who joined us today	Open Air Workshop#7 - Compressing 16.07 2018, Miksali�te compressing is getting more efficient. here we see Uros (who helps us to move the machines every time) getting very interested in the process of co...	Heaters for the Extruder 13.07 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the heaters for the extruder arrived, built by S...
Improving the Moulds 12.07 2018, Praxa Moulds had to be improved for better performance. Both the chinese dishes, as the hexagon bowl mould that we made.	Open Air Workshop#6 - Compressing 10.07 2018, Miksali�te	This goes serious 10.07 2018, Miksali�te Bowls made in HDPE plastic, need finishing.	Hexagon Bowl Mould Finished 08.07 2018, Praxa The hexagon bowl mould is finished and the first test could be made.
Hexagon Bowl Mould Welded and Polished 07.07 2018, Praxa The welded bowl mould and polished.	Hexagon Bowl Mould Parts 07.07 2018, Praxa Bowl part have been laser cut by Limar in steel 3mm thick (5000rsd). Now we are preparing them for welding.	Hexagon Bowl Mould Assembling 07.07 2018, Praxa It is necessary to fix bowl mould parts with the tape very precisely so they are well positioned for welding.	Hexagon Bowl Mould Welding 07.07 2018, Praxa Starting to weld te moulds goes in phases.
Hooper for the Extruder 06.07 2018, Praxa The hoper is cut in two folded pieces so it was easier to weld it together. It needed some tweaking as it was made to fit thinner pipe.	Hooper Attached to the Pipe 06.07 2018, Praxa Finally the hopper can be attached to the pipe.	Making hole in the Pipe 06.07 2018, Praxa The hole to in the pipe where hopper will come has to be cut very precisely.	Mini Plant Set Up 04.07 2018, Miksali�te Finally we set up two machines shredder and extruder working simultaneously, so the work process could go faster.
Buying pipe in Ledine / 3rd intent 28.06 2018, Ledine (RM Alkon Stahl) We went to Belgrade suburb of Ledine to try to find the seamless pipe that would exactly fit the size of screw. We found it for the price of 2000R...	Sorting HDPE Plastic by Colours 27.06 2018, Miksali�te After PP we passed to shred HDPE plastic today.	Slobodan Neighbour the Saviour! 27.06 2018, Miksali�te The most delicate part in building the shredder consisted in how to fix the shredder box to the structure maintaining the direction of its axel co...	Minipogon working uniforms 25.06 2018, Miksali�te Embroidering signature on the working uniforms
Small Bowl 20.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Small bowl (PP). The shredded plastic on the bottom didn't fused completely, but it left nice rustic effect.	Extruder Screw 17.06 2018, Precious Plastic Forum Technical diagram of extrusion screw. The tapered core section is apparent: as the material is brought to the front of the screw, it is compress...	Bowl #01 15.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The first bowl that we had made. 200gr (PP)	Bowl #2 with finishing 15.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Second bowl with finishing. 250gr (PP)
Cup Tray 15.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Small tray (PP)	Bowl #2 No Finishing 15.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Second bowl we made, at the moment without finishing. 300gr	Installing Compressor in Miksali�te 13.06 2018, Miksali�te It was necessary to do some adjustments on the compressor when we transported it to Miksali�te in pieces.	Working Table 13.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Various compressing experiments (except the egg tray found on the garbage).
Transporting Compressor to Miksali�te 13.06 2018, Praxa : Miksali�te Today we transported the compressor to Miksali�te in order to start compressing there. For this we had to disassemble it in pieces. Two french gir...	Planing new machine: Extruder&Injector 11.06 2018, Dača / Promlin Chow and Dača are making sketches of how our new machine should be.	Compressing plastic: Test #3 09.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace A test is made with 2 identical stainless-steel bowls (found in the chinese supermarket 720rsd both). Plastic used: PP Temperature: 205C Duratio...	Compressing plastic: Test #3 09.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace A plastic bowl could also be used as a hat, for when it's raining :)
Compressing plastic: Test #3 09.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace 3 further plastic test moulded bowls with different colours of polypropylene. Problems encountered included uneven thicknesses of the bowls and...	Compressing plastic: Test #2 08.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The results show that 200 grams of plastic was not enough to fill the volume between the bowls, but melting was consistent and the thickness was e...	Compressing plastic: Test #2 08.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Test mould using planar sheets of metal, separated by 4mm metal bars. The uneven results are due to insufficient amounts of plastic to fill the vo...	testing the compression - 3 01.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the mould is cooled under water
testing the compression - 3 01.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The mould is removed from the plastic	testing the compression - 1 01.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the mould is filled with shredded polypropylene from varous sources	testing the compression - 4 01.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace The compressed piece of recycled plastic	testing the compression - 2 01.06 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the mould is heated inside the oven to 160�C in order to melt the polypropylene, and the two halves of the mould are pushed together to compress...
Putting Isolation to the Compressor 26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace stone wool isolation has to be cut so to leave place for passing all the wiring and ventilation tube..	Putting Isolation to the Compressor 26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace All electric installations are set so we started putting stone wool isolation around the oven. Stone wool was purchased in Uradi Sam departmat st...	Putting Isolation to the Compressor 26.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Attaching isolation on the compressor has to be performed outdoors as and with the required caution as the stone wool could result toxic.	Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding & Shredding 23.05 2018, Miksali�te Great guy - Predrag approached us while working in front of Miksaliste, and stayed till the end, resolving various mechanical and practical probl...
Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding 23.05 2018, Miksali�te the people around miksaliste/migrants are joining the process and are interested in the possibilities of recycling	Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding 23.05 2018, Miksali�te at the beginning of the work process/shredding we have to sort the plastic by the type....today we were shredding the no.5 type of plastic (pp-poly...	Extrusion screw arrived! 22.05 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Finally after 5 weeks extrusion screw had arrived from Indonesia. We ordered it on Precious Plastic Bazar. So far this would be the most expensive...	Open Air Workshop#3 - Shredding 09.05 2018, Miksali�te The workshop crew. Lots of shredding..
Open Air Workshop#2 - Shredding 02.05 2018, Miksiliste Second Worksop in Miksili�te! We managed to fix the problem we had with 3-phase electricity. It was done by intoducing Variable frequency drive we...	Open Air Workshop#2 - Shredding 02.05 2018, Miksali�te Our first shredded plastic! Huge dish dryer was entirely shredded and this made just enough of work for the first session. The plastic pieces even...	Open Air Workshop#1 - Prepared Plastic for Shredding (PP) 25.04 2018, Miksali�te Diverse Polypropylene plastic was washed broke in to smaller pieces and now it's ready to be shredded. We also decided to separate plastic by colo...	Open Air Workshop#1 - Preparing Plastic for Shredding (PP) - cutting 25.04 2018, Miksali�te Guys from Pakistan were cutting the plastic while sharing our life and work experiences.
Taking Shredder for a Walk 25.04 2018, Praxa - Miksali�te For the first time the Shredder was took out for a walk. We had to transport it to Miksali�te (refugee day center) for its inauguration. On the ha...	Open Air Workshop#1 - Washing Plastic 25.04 2018, Miksali�te First working session in front of Miksali�te we used for selecting, cutting and washing collected plastic. Some plastic was collected in Miksi...	Announcing the Opening of the Open Air Workshop at Mixali�te 24.04 2018, Miksali�te As the warm days are coming we decided to move our works outside the basement in Praxa and bring it to the daylight. We made agreement with Miksal...	Collecting Waste Plastic 07.04 2018, Slavija Plastic containers (from BelgrAid) are used for collecting different types of plastic from domestic use.
first activation of oven 03.04 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Internal view of the oven after applying power for 1 minute. Visible in the middle is the temperature probe's braided connection on top of the c...	turning on temperature controller 03.04 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Powering on temperature controller for the first time for testing, only the power cable is connected and all other connections are absent, to ch...	Compressor is almost finished 03.04 2018, Praxa / Makerspace We ahve alomost finished the second machine - compressor! Some small electronic stuff and isolation left.	electronic temperature control system testing 03.04 2018, Praxa / Makerspace All electronic and electric components of the oven, connected and functioning. From left to right: Original oven thermostat connected betwee...
test mold No. 1 29.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the first trial mold in which we will test how the compression machine and plastic react	Drilling hole for grounding wire 25.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace A hole is drilled for securing the connection from the grounding wire from mains power supply to the built in grounding terminals in the oven	Grounding wire connected 25.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Grounding wire connected and secured. Also note connections to the two heating elements on the near (right) side and the single element on the f...	connecting the heaters with the thermostat 21.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Rear view of the oven. All heating elements are wired in parallel. The loose exposed wires are grounding terminals and will be connected to the ...
digital thermostat arrived 17.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace digital thermostat arrived from kupujem/prodajem https://www.kupujemprodajem.com/Digitalni-termostat-Rex-C-100- PID-SSR-40A-K-tip-senzor-57751797-o...	compressing platform completed 15.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace view of the compressor machine with all the parts assembled - except the electrical parts and the insulation that are yet to come	compressing platform tube 10.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace view of the positioned tube that raises compressing platform	compressing platform mechanism 10.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace view of the compressing platform mechanism without the oven
grinding the guiding tube 08.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace grinding welds that are attaching guiding tube to a stand	welding the guiding tube 08.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace view of the guiding tube being welded on to a stand	top panel for the compressing platform 05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace preparation for the welding	grinding the found tube 05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace grinding the found tube that will be used in the mechanism of the compressing platform as a guidance
drilling the hole in the bottom wall of the oven 05.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace drilling the hole for the compressing platform tube	completing the oven frame 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the oven frame is welded onto the oven unit	the completed oven stand 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the oven legs of the oven stand have been welded	building oven stand 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the legs of the the oven stand are welded
side view of oven 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace side view showing oven door and gas exhaust pipe	oven and oven stand 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace oven frame and oven stand , ready to be welded together	griding the oven frame before welding 02.03 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the surfaces to be welded are ground down to remove old welding bumps, thus ensuring the parts fit together	the oven 15.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Oven unit is extracted from second hand cooker, and is ready to be worked on. Due to the design constraints of the compressor, the oven will be ...
building the oven frame 15.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace we ordered all metal parts for the structure for 7.500RSD. first step in making structure was to weld metal sections together to form the oven sup...	disassembling the cooker 14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace we got the 2nd hand cooker for 3.000RSD through Kupindo.com and it is disassembled in order to extract the oven	cleaning the oven parts 14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace the oven is disassembled, and its parts need deep cleaning as its covered with a tick layer of fat	taking the measures for the structure 14.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace our oven is of different size from the one given in PP instructions, so we have to calculate and adapt measures for the new structure we are going...
shredder works! 01.02 2018, Praxa / Makerspace We connected everything and the shredder worked! And successfully shredded couple of plastic bottles..	connecting electricity 31.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace We bought 10.5m cable, 25AMP switch and three- phase plug in near by electric shop (3.900RSD). Milo� and Aleksandar helped us in making connexion...	fixing the motor to the structure 31.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Marko, who is engineer helped us to fix the motor to the structure. This was the most delicate part that we had to solve because we opted for a ri...	Mesh no.1 29.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace For making mesh we need perforated metal sheet 1.5mm thick. Problem is that in Jeep our usual supplier such sheets could be purchased only as enti...
Extending the structure 2 27.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Tijana, who joined our team is flattening the welds with the grinder.	Wooden board 27.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace We found a wooden plank by the garbage bin in front of the studio and are sanding and cutting it for the shelf in the structure. Its 30mm thick ex...	Extending the structure 25.01 2018, Praxa / Makerspace Because the motor with reductor is bigger than we initially planned (it has lineal not lateral axis) we had to make extension of the basic structu...	making connection between motor and shredder/ making machine 1 24.01 2018, PRO-MLIN, Ledine, New Belgrade Making the connection between shredder and motor in PRO-MLIN workspace in New Belgrade. Transport of the whole structure of the machine 1 from P...
making connection between motor and shredder/ making machine 1 24.01 2018, PRO-MLIN, Ledine, New Belgrade Making the connection between shredder and motor in PRO-MLIN workspace in New Belgrade. Transport of the whole structure of the machine 1 from P...	motor & reductor 29.12 2017, Paraćin - Kupindo after long consultations we decided for the motor with reductor from Paraćin, that we found on Kupindo.com. Propositions 1,5KW, 60rpm, price:...	meeting with comessariat 20.12 2017, Comessariat, Gavrila Principa We had meeting with Commissariat for refugees discussing for a long time details of our project and possibilities for collaboration. Coordinator N...	distribution of posters for the 1st workshop 19.12 2017, Infopark, Miksali�te we distributed the posters to the places which refugees attend, Miksali�te, Infopark, some were sent to the camps in Krnjača and Obrenovac
1st presentation 15.12 2017, RAS school first presentation in RAS school - there was 3 people, we realised that we have to change the strategy and have more advanced machines in order ...	looking for motor&reductor 13.12 2017, Obrenovac we dedicated lots of time to search for a motor with reductor for both shredder and extruder. lots of consultations and looking for different mode...	making hopper 08.12 2017, Praxa / Makerspace hopper is made from the thin metal. We ordered parts from Jeep (500rsd) and welded it ourselves.	feet for the stability of the structure 08.12 2017, Praxa / Makerspace because motor makes lots of turbulence it is necessary to add feet to the structure with which the whole machine will be fixed to the floor
metal structure 25.11 2017, Praxa / Makerspace Welding metal structure for the shredder machine. Metal bars: 13 eur, Jeep, Karađorđeva	frenzekovanje 18.10 2017, Praxa / Makerspace frenzekovanje - lowering the angle of the holes on the sides of the shredder box	assembling shredder box 17.10 2017, Praxa / Makerspace our first working day in Praksa Makerspace in Kraljevića Marka stret in Belgrade. Assembling shredder box.	bearings arrived 11.10 2017, �ivko i sinovi bearings arrived from �ivko i sinovi. Price: 860 RSD
hexagon axel 06.10 2017, kosinox.rs we ordered hexagon axel from Kosinox.rs (Smederevski put..). Price 3.900RSD