Pyramid Festival logo pieces
Minipogon has been invited to participate in Pyramid Featival 2024. Pieces made with t shirt press
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(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community
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(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community
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(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community
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(Non) working hours - tuning a sustainable community
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Reshape
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Reshape
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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THE SCHOOL OF THE WE
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...
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Vases
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4 x 5 x X = 15 + Y
Spring exhibition, Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić.
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WBRC
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WBRC
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WBRC
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Spectrometer box
First prototype chassis for spectrometer.
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NEW WORLD OF PLASTIC WASTE II
Second workshop.
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NEW WORLD OF PLASTIC WASTE
First workshop within the festival Na Sopstveni Pogon 2020 (self-propelled festival 2020 organised by Independent Culture Scene of Serbia)
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Measure of agreement
exhibition of independent artists "It must be possible", Pavilion Cvijete Zuzorić,
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Haunted Camp / Scupture Exhibition
We made an 18 replicas of the camp baracks and positioned them according to the real situation in the camp. Camp barracks were made from recycled plas...
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Birds Parlament
Birds are having the last chat before heading north via Lower Austrian Alps.
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100 Shtiglich's
4 weeks of work / 5 stiglich per day / 2.5 people
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Shtiglich and Barrack Bars
This summer went in hard work. We had to produce 100 plastic birds (shtiglich's) and 18 Barrack bars, for two different shows.
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The first test with a new mould
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...
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...and it's working!
First test -melting plastic, adjusting the temperature that will melt the plastic fast without burning it during the process
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Everything connected...
Finally our forth machine - Injector is finished!
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Help from the expert
Wires connected successfully, but we needed some professional guidance...thanks Zverko!
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Connecting the wires
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....
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Making the box for electronics
Adjusting the box for puzzles into a box that will hold together all the electronic parts, reused and beautiful
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Heaters added to the structure
Another day another element added...we are now rushing home before the curfew...
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Injector structure
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.
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Barrack Bar Mould
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 ...
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Tandem Western Balkans meeting no. 2
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...
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Making the mattress
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.....
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On the road again
Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace. We were invited to help establish the plastic recycling un...
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Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace
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Building machines within One Happy Family - Community Center, Lesvos - low tech makerspace
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Value of art in social fabric, meeting no. 4
Developing strategies and methodologies to question value of art and relations between artists, funders and the community.
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Communication
Exercise that shifts the communication beyond obvious...people are using wooden branches to make the sound / rhythmical messages gently moving the fin...
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Examining space in the Marienplatz
Preparations for the exhibition that will happen in the beginig of May organized by rotor Zentrum f�r zeitgen�ssische Kunst.
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Christmas Market at GTC Centre: happy buyer
One of the happy buyers from the GTC Center with her new purchase on the cigarette break.
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Christmas Market at GTC Centre
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...
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Christmas Market at GTC Centre - Products
In this occasion we offered part of our new production made with extruder and new moulds.
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Last Day in the Krnjaca 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...
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Packing
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...
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Winter Storage
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...
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Even our Trash Is Beautiful!
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...
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Barrack Bar Mould
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...
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Rachel's Bowl
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 i...
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Looking for the new workshop space - Adra
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...
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Looking for the new workshop space
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...
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Autmn Forestation
On the initiative of our friend and initial member of our collective Danilo Prnjat, who bought 30 seedlings of beautiful trees Pawlinia Officialis we ...
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Leaflets Minipogon
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...
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Injector structure finished
The structure of the injector is almost done, so now comes the electronic parts..
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Symposium on Circular Economy
Somehow we found ourselves on the plenary discussion of the Ministry of Energetics on introducing Circular Econoimy standards in Serbia... All is on l...
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Bye Bye Krnjaca
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...
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1st collaboration with Ecoplastics
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...
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1st collaboration with Ecoplastics 2
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.
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Barrack Bar Mould
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 c...
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New machine on the way - Injector
Our experimental combo Extruder-injector was an interesting attempt to combine two machines, but it had a lot of deficiencies, especially in the terms...
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Posthuman Work
With a little help of our friends, namely Reza's new cat Karona is helping with sorting the plastic lids..
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Shredder on Sale (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.
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Busy day in the Workshop
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...
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New Extruded Objects
Lots of new products from HDPE plastic made on the extruder. Everything done in one day!
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Back to the 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...
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Finissage with Recycle Kitchen #1
Friends and curious people from the street are joining the finissage. Luckily Bermet prepared plenty of food. The atmosphere is nice and friendly.
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Finissage with Recycle Kitchen
Bermet is preparing 'recycled' snacks arranging them in recycled bowls. The finissage party is about to start.
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Finissage with Recycle Kitchen #2
Friends and curious people from the street are joining the finissage. We even extended the gallery space to the exterior.
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Exhibition View - Plastic Sheets
Plastic boards in different patterns produced from PP (Polypropylene) displayed as part of the exhibition. The plastic sheets are production material ...
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Minipogon's Admin
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.
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Troubles with the Screw
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...
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Machines on Display
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...
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Clip Earrings
New line of clip earrings made form PP plastic sheets.
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Wea are Living Interesting Times
Three wall watches showing time in Ahwaz, Krnjaca and Kualalumpur are hanging in our exhibition space.
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New Extruded Items #2
Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.
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Extruded Plate
Big Extruded plate, preparing dishes for the Friday finissage with Recycling Kitchen.
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New Extruded Items #4
Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.
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HDPE Big Fruit Bowls #1
Big size bowls made of separated HDPE plastic, provided by Cap for Handicap (cep za hendikep). Each approx 500gr.
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Hanging Earrings
Drop-shape hanging earring on its new owner. Made from PP plastic sheet.
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HDPE Big Fruit Bowls #2
Big size bowls made of separated HDPE plastic, provided by Cap for Handicap (cep za hendikep). Each approx 500gr.
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Road works outside the gallery
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...
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New Extruded Items
Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.
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Tijana extruding the Plate
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 ...
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New Extruded Items #3
Big extruded bowl for fruits is made from HDPE plastic.
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Starting a Spectroscope
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...
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The Open Workshop at ULUPUDS Gallery
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 ...
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Living in Interesting Times
We are living in the interesting times, in many ways. So we make a new line of wall watches to underline this!
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Going to Workshop in Nivica
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...
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The Workshop Day in front of the Nivica School
The usual working day in Nivica on a plateau in front of the school.
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Cleaning the Area from Plastic Trash
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...
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Workshop in the School, Nivica
The worksop in the Nivica school finally starts to attract attention of the local villagers, and they could try the machines themselves.
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The test with extrusion machine
The local villager, Miklosh very fast learned to use the extrusion machine and is making beautiful objects.
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The first test
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...
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Machines Arriving to Tepelena
After 7 hours of driving in packed van we arrived to Tepelena, where we will pass the night before going to Nivica.
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Combo Assembled
The Combo is now assembled and we are doing the first tests in the Tulla workshop.
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With a Little Help From our Friends
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...
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Assembling Compressor
The compressor is almost finished. For this time the decision was made to orient the oven horizontally, not vertically as in Precious Plastic blueprin...
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New Metal Cutting Machine in Tulla
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...
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Building machines in 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...
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Assembling Combo
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...
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Buying materials & tools
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 ...
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Tirana Cargo Bicycle
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...
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New Products - Earrings
The rests of the thin boards are used for making clip earrings.
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Transparent Bowl PP
Bopwl made of transparent PP plastic, with colored dots, with a fine
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Pink Big Bowl PP
Pink and red PP plastic bowl, very smooth on touch. with fine
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Robust Big Bowl Blue (PP)
Big robust bowl made of PP plastic with uneven finishing and tender
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Green HDPE Bowl
Mix of green HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit bowl. 450gr;
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Technicolor Big Bowl PP
PP plastic bowl in Technicolor colors, very smooth on touch. 500gr;
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Secession Golden Blue Bowl HDPE
Mix of golden and colored HDPE plastic flakes combine into big bowl
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Purple HDPE Bowl
Mix of purple and coloured HDPE plastic flakes combine into shallow
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Green & Coloured HDPE Bowl
Mix of green and colored HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit
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Coloured Bowl HDPE
Mix of HDPE plastic flakes combine into big fruit bowl. 550gr; 45eur
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Black HDPE Bowl
Black HDPE plastic flakes combined with colored dots into bowl with
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Orange dotted Big HDPE Bowl
Colored HDPE plastic with predominantly orange tone makes
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Breaking a Chair
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...
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Workshop in Petnica
Traveling to Petnica, science development center near Valjevo, where we will give a workshop on plastic recycling to a group of scholars.
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Workshop in Petnica
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...
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Injection Mould for the Shroom
The professor on the Fine Arts Faculty, Rajša, offered us to make the first test mould casted in aluminium... We came to the faculty department to do ...
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New contigent of materials
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...
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Peđa finishing the injection mould
It was necessary to thread the hole to the mould and make canals.
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Shredder box for Cuba
The shredder box goes to Cuba, via Amsterdam (Louis Fernandez, a friend who is organising a collaboration with the local fab-lab)
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Transporting the cargo bicycle
The cargo bicycle we constructed two months ago had to be moved from the NNK boat to the Camp.
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Transporting the cargo bicycle
It took a whole day journey, approx. 6 hours to move the cargo from New Belgrade side to Krnjača on foot.
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Pashto - Serbian Clasess
Spontaneous language lessons (Pashto / Dari / Serbian / English) are taking place in the work breaks. Wais, an afghan guy talented for languages is ma...
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Shredder Box Remont
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...
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Preparing the Plastics
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...
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Our 1st purchase of waste plastic from neighbourning Roma Settlment
When we went to a Roma settlement to find a young guy Dževad and give him a bowl in which fabrication he took part last winter when Roma settlers brok...
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New Oven
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...
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Caps from the Camp
As all our plastic resources were captured in the exhibition installation we were left without materials for work. Therefore Noorullah took an initiat...
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Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade
Silence is Deafness Here
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Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade
Silence is Deafness Here
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Exhibition in Cultural Center Belgrade
Silence is Deafness Here
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Mosaic Table Board
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 tab...
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3d prototypes
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 mou...
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Green Ideas Finale
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 pass...
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Making Cricket Bat
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.
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CNC machine electronics box
The CNC machine had some missing parts for housing the electronics, so an old shampoo bottle was improvised to replace it.
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CNC machine
CNC machine being assembled Donation from the Polyhedra, Belgrade.
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Resources Supply for June
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 t...
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Assembling the New Shredder
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 need...
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# Me Too
At the Mixer festival of Circular economy we managed to make contacts with kindred organisations (Trash Hero Serbia, 3d Republic, etc) who also suppor...
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Mixer / Day #2
The whole process of recycling plastic from selecting, washing to shredding and injecting it in to the 'star' moulds has been continuously demonstrate...
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Mixer / Day #1
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 securit...
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Curious crowd
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 inside.
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Mould Made on Commission
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 improveme...
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Safety Regulations
Keeping safe is very important especially for the youngest mates :) such as Mortaza.
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Table-board Triangular Tiles Design
An initiative came from Jadranka Ahlgren, very active retired architect to produce a small oriental coffee tables. This is our approach to the table b...
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Extending the Workshop
Khairula has an experience of working in car mechanic workshop in Afghanistan so he could very fast take over lots of tasks requiring technical skills...
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Following Up Selected Design Ideas at Polyhedra
Borko Jovanovic responsible for Plyhedra Fab Lab offered us a possibility to organise a working meeting with the authors of selected design ideas sele...
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New visit in the Camp
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Fijuk Fair in 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 Svilara,...
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Shredding full speed
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 aro...
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Awarded idea: Modular Cube (Mihajlo Ećim, Srđan Lazić, Andrijević Marija)
Modular hollow cube, could be used as basic element for building tool recipients for desk, office or workshop purposes, also offers potential for play...
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Awarded idea: Shrooms (Dimitrije Mišović)
Wall hangers inspired by the form of mushrooms in basic geometrical shapes and colorus.
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Preparing for the New Batch of Plastic
There is a new contingent of plastic that has to be mastered.
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Awarded idea: Attachable Trash Bin (Anđela Tasković)
Trash bin in round and square form could be attached to the working table.
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Idea for Development: Honey (Vanja Grubić)
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 dev...
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Idea for Development: Polaroid Frame (Tijana Ćirić)
Polaroid frame for pictures. It was necessary to adapt the idea in order to ease the fabrication of the mould.
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Awarded idea: Cups (Petra Kovačević)
Set of three cups of refined shape.
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Spanish Video Artist Discovering New Medium of Expression
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 an...
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Mastering the Extrusion
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 guys...
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Would you like some coffee or tea?
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 similar...
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Mortaza and the Rabbit
Mortaza got the rabbit and came to show it to us, his dream is to have a cat when he finally arrives to Germany..
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I made this
Bowl made on the extruder
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I made this
Bowl made on the extruder
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Arteza in action
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, suggesting...
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Extrusion talents
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Extrusion talents
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, for ...
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New Guys Joining
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 ar...
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Cap for Handicap Festival
The Cap for Handicap organization dedicated to collecting plastic caps through public campaign in order to secure wheelchairs for the ones needing the...
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Cap for Handicap Festival - Caps
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 i...
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Towel Hanger Prototype
Dejan had an idea to try to make a small foldable hanger from the remaining pieces of the board he bought from us.
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Ali Hazrat
Our new close collaborator is Ali Hazrat. He is only 19, but knows lots of different things, so as chemical composition of plastics, recycling machine...
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Ali Hazrat
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Dividing plastic by color
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. W...
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Friends
Mortaza 8 year old boy comes to our studio almost
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Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim
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 attachin...
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Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim
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 lik...
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March 8th 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 and i...
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Students from college of fine and applied arts visiting
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Afternoon activities
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 ou...
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Students of Fine and Applied Arts Visit
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 participatin...
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Mayla, a volonteer from Berlin
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 s...
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Fusing Cut-offs Test
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 to ...
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Reading time
Sometimes one needs to stop and think
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Cargo Bicycle Workshop with Rasim Ferizović
Otvorena radionica izrade kargo bicikla pod vođstvom Rasima Ferizovića Subota 9. mart / Ispod mosta Gazela sa Novobeogradske strane na platou ispred b...
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Plastic Meka
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. Th...
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At Ajkula's (The Shark)
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 Roma ...
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Danilo dropped by, just to say hello
After a long time not being able to work with us due to different obligations Danilo joined us today working on his favourite machine - the Shredder!
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Red is the colour
Sometimes we are very lucky to find many pieces of plastic in the same colour
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Transporting the Estruder from Miksali�te
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 place...
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Washing to begin with
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 have ...
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1984. plastic I
Struggle to break one old plastic barrel which was made in 1984 and still looks and behaves like new.
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1984. plastic II
Almost done, with a little help from friends in the camp and from the boat...
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Collecting Plastic Waste from the Mexican Fastfood
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 dishe...
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Quiet afternoon
As the weather is very nice almost all of the guys are outside playing sports. This gave us relaxed time with no many visitors, so we could finish som...
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Brand new/old resources
Streets of Belgrade are truly inspiring, every time our friend N.M. goes for a walk minipogon is working full speed.
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Minipogon on the Trade Show
minipogon presented its products and philosophy on the Trade Show part of Radmin - festival of radical administration.
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Kids department
Because the machines are not for kids to use, we let them draw on the walls... and enjoy great decoration surrounding us.
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After work chat
Who is going and where, or is it maybe better to stay...
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Minipogon Manual Vol.2
Download pdf This is the 2nd updated version of the minipogon's manual.
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Minipogon in Augustin
After visiting us in Belgrade Natalie Deewan wrote an article about Minipogon in Vienna magazine Augustin..
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Vlasto, join the conversation!
Vlasta, who is working on the maintenance in the camp, likes to drop by and have a coffee from time to time.
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Friends from Belgium and Austria, visiting
People who are coming to Belgrade for different reasons usually are very curious to see our studio and work with us.
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Key-chains for KIRS
On the suggestion of camp management we fabricated the key chains with the support board for the all 18 barracks in the camp.
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Note-books
Hard cover note-books with replaceable papers in sizes 7x7 and 7x9cm, available in diverse color patterns. Price 3 eur.
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Clip-boards
Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.
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Clip-boards 4
Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.
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Clip-boards 2
Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse color patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.
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Clip-boards 3
Clip-boards for A5 and B5 paper sizes, available in diverse colour patterns, comes with the elastic bend. Price 8 to 14 euro.
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Plastic Boards
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 them...
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Visit from Handicap Cap
Today we received a visit to our studio from the group of Handicap Cap (Čep za hendikep). Handicap Cap is an humanitarian initiative dedicated to coll...
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New nozzle - testing
The new nozzle, that will be directly attached to the mould, is put to test and it is working just fine!
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Extruded Bowl
Very light but super strong bowl made with a help of the extruder machine. For the mould was used the basketball ball.
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Redha in action
Our friend Redha is getting more activated in the studio work. And also he is bringing some novelties in the production process.
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Tests with the PET #2
The new nozzle for the extrusion is ready and we are attempting to do a test with the PET.
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Tests with the PET #2: liquid
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 in...
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Tests with the PET #2: result
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.
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Shredded PET
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 soft ...
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Meling PET - 1st test
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 com...
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4 years detained in Serbia and proud
Some people from the Camp are coming to our workshop for a chat and some like to work on the machines more.
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Mould for the PET Cube
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.
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Testing the 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 friend ...
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Red Dotted Pattern (PP)
Sample of a red dotted pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
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Blue Grey Pattern (PP)
Sample of a blue grey pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
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Blue Grey White Pattern (PP)
Sample of a blue grey white pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
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Blue Dotted Pattern (PP)
Sample of a blue dotted pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
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New Collection of Watches
Square boards were used to make wall watches. (photo: N. Deewan)
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Pink Grey Pattern (PP)
Sample of a pink grey pattern in polypropylene plastic. Board 20x20cm.
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3d printed cup prototype
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 the m...
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New Kids on the Camp
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New Kids on the 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 sett...
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Printing the Glas Prototype at 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 cons...
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New Kids on the Camp
Action wall painting and learning some English..
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New Kids on the Camp
Our small visitors from neighboring Roma community are showing lots of interest for the procedure of plastic recycling. They indeed helped us (also wi...
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A Motor for the new shredder
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 last tim...
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Collecting Aluminium for Casting Moulds
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 collecting...
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Konkurs za idejno rešenje dizajna proizvoda od reciklažne plastike
Izazov u 3E dizajnu (3E=Ekologija+Ekonomija+Etika) Minipogon / 24.12.2018-01.03.2019 Poziv je upućen mladim dizajnerima koji bi želeli da se svojim id...
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Quest for recatgular tubes on the Scrapyard
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 fir...
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Fijuk stand
another view of the bowls and pots during the event
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MP on Fijuk
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, w...
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Assistant
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 wo...
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reza's cat
A friend from the camp has adopted a cat that goes everywhere with him.
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Plastic lids collected at Wiener Deewan (even washed and dried), all together occupying 7 liter bucket approximately are soon going to be brought to S...
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plastic jewelry - making of
Experimenting with the new possible products, having a lot of colourful boards (from the T-shirt press) we decided to make pieces for earrings or neck...
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Visitor from the neighborhood
A friend Ivan who lives in the Camp neighbourhood visited us today in the workshop. He and all of his family worked in the Trudbenik factory which wen...
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2 mm sheet sample PP
With new T-shirt press we are able to produce thin plastic laminates. This is one sample made from polypropylene, 2mm thick.
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Kids came to play
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 one ...
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Equipping the Workshop
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 seems t...
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Call for the Workshops
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 equipm...
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Key-chains for the Baracks
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 we f...
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Our first online purchase
Our first online purchase through Precious Plastic Bazaar is just sent to Australia.
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T-shirt press
A T-shirt press with which we will be able to make thin plastic laminates was donated to us by Refugee Art Trail (R.A.T).
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Plastic Cut
In half an hour all plastic objects were cut in smaller pieces suitable for shredding. But they still have to be washed before shredding.
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Processing the new contingent of plastic
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 broug...
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New Contingent of Plastic Brought by Nebojša
Nebojša brought us a new contingent of plastic he collected, just in a good moment as we were getting out of material for work.
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More Extruded Bowls 2
The extruded bowl finished. The technique requires lots of patience and steady hand.
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The Furniture Knobs
Spinning the extruded plastic directly around the special screws usually used for furniture knobs gives rather interesting designs for irregular knobs...
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More Extruded Bowls
More tests are being done with the extruder and mastering the technique continues on Tuesdays in Miksalište.
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Cold Weather Keeps us Indoors
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 work indoor...
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Workshop in Miksaliste
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 to w...
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Workshop in Miksaliste
Today in Miksalište we had lots of visits, and everybody wanted to try the extruder. There was Zaki, Sylvie Fortin, Neda Kovinić with her boyfriend, e...
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Valentina and her Mother
Valentina and her mother who are refugees from Kosovo and living in Miksalište with other members of their family often come to look what we are doing...
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Bowls Photo Session
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.
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Krnjača / Day 10
Another day goes by, someone is working, someone just enjoys watching others work. All in all we are having a good time.
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Krnjača / Day 10
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.
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Krnjača / Day 9
We are preparing and cutting the plastic into smaller pieces for shredding.
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Krnjača / Day 9
Shredder seams to be the most interesting machine. Probably because the result is visible immediately.
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New Objects done with Extruder
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, getti...
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Tests with Extruder-injector
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.
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Tests with Extruder-injector
This week at Miksalište we are continuing the experimentation with the Extruder-Injector, every time getting more in control over the process.
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Krnjača / Day 8
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.
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Krnjača / Day 8
Finishing the edges is quite interesting job to do.
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Empty 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 groups of you...
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Translucent Green
Nevertheless we continue working, today we tested translucent polypropylene plastic that was shredded yesterday. The result seems to be very interesti...
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Krnjača / Day 7
Now that the Game is on, the youngest, that have stayed, finally can see what is going on.
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Krnjača / Day 6
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 op...
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Collecting wasted plastic
Our friend Nebojša Milikić is our greatest provider of plastic resources. Today he delivered us big quantity of plastic he collected last days. On the...
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Krnjača / Day 6
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 fo...
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Plastic for Shredding
All plastic collected bu Nebojša is brought to our workshop space in Krnjača camp. We are slowly starting to select it and shredd it. Thanks to Nebojš...
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Krnjača / Day 6
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 th...
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Extruder - 1st Products
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 han...
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Experimenting with the Extruder
We continue to work in our regular Wednesday working terms in Miksalište. There we left one machine Extruder-Injector that till now we havent had too ...
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Workshop in Miksaliste
We are continuing Wednesday sessions in Miksalište, with the Extruder machine that we had left there. Chow is setting it, so that the temperature cont...
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Bowl HDPE
A colourful bowl made from HDPE bottle lids, with new method of iron finishing.
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Barack 15 emptied
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 closed and ...
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Krnjača / Day 5
Wajid is pouring shredded plastic in the bowl. He is doing it very carefully.
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Krnjača / Day 4
Cleaning and shredding plastic, every participant has a task to do.
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Plastic Tiles
Plastic tiles 1cm thick, could be used for diverse purposes.. We are planning to make key chain pendant from them for the camp management purposes.
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New Bowls from Krnjača
New bowls have been made in our new working space in Krnjača refugee camp.
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Shredded plastic
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 things c...
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Shredding Plastic
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, pu...
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Krnjača / Day 3
In the meantime of shredding we are also using the occasion to learn some pashto.
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Krnjača / Day 3
Today we had with us a Colombian artist Juan David Galindo, who in couple occasions joined us already in the workshops in Miksalište.
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Krnjača / Day 3
While we are starting to work our young friends are arriving from the lunch and gathering on the window of our workshop space.
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Krnjača / Day 2
...and in the end it was a very productive day
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Krnjača / Day 2
At the beginning everybody we're just looking how process is conducted...
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Krnjača / Day 2
Then they joined... taking different tasks, shredding, washing and cutting plastic.. Wajid, Ahmed, Nagib, Rahman, etc.
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Day 1 - arranging the space
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 months. ...
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Day 1 - arranging the space
Working space arranged! Everything is prepared for tomorrow, workshops can beguine!
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Day 1 - bringing equipment from Miksaliste
Arranging equipment - transferring machines, tools and plastic from the van to the new asined space in Krnjaca refugee camp (Building no. 15) with the...
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Workshop in Miksaliste
Shredder is working properly again. With our guest from Columbia and new friends from Afghanistan we are shredding plastic nomber 05 - PP, at the same...
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Assigned Space in Krnjaca 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 thi...
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Ussual Workshop in Miksaliste
We are continuing our usual Wednesday activities in Miksaliste refugee day center. Preparing all PP plastic for shredding. An unfortunate thing happen...
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Sealing the Oven
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 possibl...
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Workshop in Miksaliste
We have continued with workshops which we have been doing every Wednesday in Miksaliste in Belgrade. Shoes seller from Pakistan have joined us today..
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Setting up the storage place in Miksaliste
After a month we are back in Miksalište, cleaning and setting up the storage place and looking how better to arrange it for the coming cold season whe...
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Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Urosh and his husband keychains
Uroš 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.
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Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gathering
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 th...
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EFC meeting camp in Rome - Workshop Day 2
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 terri...
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Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gabriele's neckless
Gabriele Michalitsch got a designed neck-less made on the spot.
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Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Exchange with Peter Haumer
Peter Haumer (Papierfabrik) brought us grappa (which we served on the spot) 2 homemade marmalade jars and soap from Greek self-managed factory to exch...
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Closing Event @ Stand 129 - Gathering
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 th...
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5th working day - Hexagon Bowls
Five hexagon bowls, all except one produced at Victor-Adler-Markt.
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5th working day @ Stand 129 - Curious Passers By
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.
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5th working day - Ussual working tasks
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/discussion a...
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EFC meeting camp in Rome - Workshop Day 1
Part of minipogon have visited Baobab Refugee Center in Rome during EFC meeting Idea Camp...
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5th working day @ Stand 129 - Curious Passers By
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.
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Machines set back at Circular Economy exhibition @ AIL
Machines are returned back at the Circular Economy Exhibition at AIL together with more material and will stay there until the 26th of September when ...
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5th working day - VAMarkt Serie
All obejects produced at the Victor-Adler-Markt displayed together. The colours dominating shades of blue, black and white are provided by the vegetab...
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5th working day @ Stand 129 - with Stefanie Wuschitz on Value
Our last guest Stefanie Wuschitz (MZ*Baltazar) joined us for today's lunch in discussion on Value.
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5th working day - Uma's plastic lids bowl
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 Mar...
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Lale on Work
Our todays guest for the lunch-break conversation was Lale Rodgarkia-Dara. Lale is herself artist, sound musician and has experience in working in var...
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Improving Shredder
Stefan Schlee together with Chow today was busy with improving the shredder performance so no plastic bits will be any more lost in vain.
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Misho Udarnik
Mišo Kapetanović, who was assigned by the Wienwoche Festival to help us with the translations on the Stand is now completely integrated in all working...
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Shades of Blue
Mišo is finishing with all blue plastic boxes we collected from the Victor-Adler-Markt. They are giving particular jeans style pattern which makes the...
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Pressing the moulds
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 handy ...
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Lale on Work
Todays lunch was kindly prepared by Rory Archer, so we were a bit more relieved from this task.
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4th Working Day @ Stand 129 - Blue Plastic Crates
Lots of blue plastic crates collected on the market are ready to be shredded today.
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Gabriele Michalitsch on Economy
Todays discussion guest was Gabriele Michalitsch, a professor on political economy at Vienna University, with whom we discussed on the topics related ...
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129
Performing usual working tasks at Victor-Adler- Markt.
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - filling moulds
Pouring shredded plastic in to the mold. Different mixtures of colored plastic is coming through, in predominance white, blue and black.
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129
Performing the usual working tasks on Victor-Adler- Markt.
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Accident with the Extruder
At some point weldings on the extruder pipe had loosen and it started spinning around detached from its base pulling all electric and heating cables. ...
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3rd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Jeans Line
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 or...
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2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - luch break / discussion
Lunch break discussion with Peter and great people form the market area..
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2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - with Peter on WORK
Our todays guest is Peter Haumer and with him we will discuss about the topic of Work in the lunch- time break.
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2nd Working Day @ Stand 129 - Washing Plastic
We start with washing collected plastic. A Russian lady who speaks Bulgarian, Uma, who already was there yesterday came today as well bringing a full ...
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129
Mišo Kapetanović is our helper at the Stand 129 engaged by the Wienwoche Festival for helping us in translations and communication in German. But he a...
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Discussion / MATERIAL
Lunch time with great discussion about MATERIAL with the great people from the market place.
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Discussion / MATERIAL
Todays topic for the lunch-break is MATERIAL and for this we have special visitors: Maria Sulzer (Material Koje) and Natalie Deewan (Wiener Deewan). B...
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Testing new Forms
After the lunch we are proceeding with working tasks and testing some new forms from the plastic containers from the same Market.
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129
We are receiving visitors and proceeding our usual tasks. At the moment testing the stamping of the bowls.
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129 - Lunch break
In the lunch break some occasional people also join us for the cup of pottage...
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1st Working Day @ Stand 129
Our work attracts passers by...
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Intro Day - Stand 129
People are gathering around machines and various discussions are going on. The formal presentation is going to begin.
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Intro-event on the Stand 129
Atmosphere at Stand 129. Various people came to see the presentation and others are approaching led by curiosity.
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Presentation of Minipogon on the Stand 129
Current members of Minipogon about to start the discussion with demonstration.
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MP Presentation on the Stand 129
The presentation is very brief and we are letting people to ask questions.
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Demonstration on the Stand 129
Pouring shredded plastic collected from our Collection Nodes to the mold.
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MP Presentation on the Stand 129
Some of our future guests during the week to come are also present: Peter Haumer, Stefanie Wursticz, Gabriele Michalitsch, Natalie Deewan...
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Cleaning the Plastic Bottles - Material Koje
We brought machines and collected plastic from our two collecting spots: Wiener Deewan and Material Koje, installed the machines and we are slowly pre...
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Transporting plastic from Collection point -Wiener Deewan
During the whole summer the Wiener Deewan was established as minipogon's plastic collection point. Thanks to Natalie Deewan.
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Circular Economy exhibition opening
Opening of the Circular Economy exhibition by ARA Innovation Space Project. Chow is demonstrating extruder-injector to the visitors.
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Minipogon Manual, Vol.1. english / arabic
Download minipogon's booklet as PDF file Minipogon user's manual / Towards equality through collaborative productive work / Vol. 1. 04.09.2018. Belgra...
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Extruding Test #1
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 the g...
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Visiting WUK metal workshop space in 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 Vienna.
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Natalies Box
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 from h...
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Minipogon at Stand 129 / flier distribution
We are distributing fliers and posters for the event we will be doing in Viennas 10th district at Victor- Adler-Markt, Stand 129
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Testing CNC at Macondo
Lale from MZ*Baltazars Laboratory invited us to take part in the Festival she is organizing in Macondo, an immigrant neighborhood of Vienna. Chow mana...
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Installing Machines at AIL
We are installing machines for the ARA Innovation Space Exhibition at AIL, Vienna.
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Macondo - Deportation Center
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 machine. ...
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Washing Plastic in AIL Bathroom
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 collecte...
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Shredding Plastic Lids AIL
The lids are dried and are going to be shredded so we could put them in the Extruder.
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Defragmenting the CNC machine
We have fixed a broken CNC machine in MZ Baltazar and dismembered it for a transportation to Macondo neighbourhood of Vienna.
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MZ Baltazar meeting after setting up CNC machine
Getting in contact with great women Lale and Stefanie from MZ*Baltazar and arranging with them to fix our CNC machine there...
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Setting up a CNC
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 use...
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ATA Carnet
The 3 machines are heading to Vienna where they will be presented at the ARA Exhibition and employed for Wienwoche Festival in September. For taking t...
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Transportation day - Belgrade to Vienna
Customs border control at Hungarian border. Machines are being checked...
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Vaiting on the border for machine check
Resting on the border after a hard working day in Praksa Makerspace while waiting at the EU border...
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Making the chain connector between two motors on extruder
We finished the connection between 2 motors in extruder / injection. Guy from neghbouring bike shop help us with the chain connection.
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Installing Heathing Elements for the Extruder-Injector
Installing heating elements together with electric box, PID temperature controller...
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Centering the Extruder-Injector
Difficult task showed out to be centering all the extruder/injector components in line.
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Flier for the Wienwoche Festival
Download PDF flier The fliers for the Winewoche Festival through which people will be invited to join us on Victor-Adler- Markt are finished and sent ...
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Poster for the Wienwoche Festival
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 and d...
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The Square Mould Finished
The square mould is finished and ready to be tested.
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Building Extruder Structure
We decided to venture with a third machine not following the PP instructions. Our member Chow made proposal for building extruder and injector machine...
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Visiting the refugee camp in Obrenovac
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 of tec...
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Cutting Square Mould in Two
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 obtaini...
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Visiting the refugee camp in Kikinda
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 isolate...
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Visiting the refugee camp in Kikinda
We discussed a possibility of organising at least some part of workshops in Kikinda refugee camp. The camp is inhabited mostly by families who are asy...
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Square Mould
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. But ...
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Grinding Outter Mould
Polishing inner side of outer mold is very exhausting job and needs special tools and patience.
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Collecting plastic in Vienna
Maria Sulzer from Material Koje collected plastic for the event in September on Viktor-Adlers-Markt. Chow came to separate 'good' from 'bad' plastic. ...
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Visiting refugee camp in 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, Obrenovac and ...
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Extruder-Injector / Technical Drawings Part 2
Cross sectional diagram of the pusher, hex shaft, sprocket and extrusion screw assembly, showing ball bearing locations, attachment of the hex shaft t...
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Open Air Workshop#10
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 compre...
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Extruder-Injector / Technical Drawings Part
Top: cross section view of hex shaft inside pusher assembly, showing ball bearing location Bottom : side view of extrusion screw inserted into extrusi...
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Open Air Workshop#9 - Compressing
arranging the colors from shredded plastic, making the plate (guests from Milan)
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Nozzles for the Extruder-Injector
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 be u...
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Extruder-Injector View
Perspective view of assembled extruder/injector concept. Coloured sections indicate critical positioning elements.
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Extruder-Injector / Upper Sprocket Position
Greyscale 3d rendering of the main rotating mechanisms of the extruder: pusher, hex shaft, sprocket, ball bearing (and structural support), and extrus...
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Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing
checking if everything is ok in the compressor... it takes around 20 min for one mould to be compressed. (guests from Vienna)
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Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing
and here it is, final product - hexagonal bowl raw, before polishing
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Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing
combining colors (HDPE shredded plastic) in the mould for the hexagonal bowl
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Open Air Workshop#8 - Compressing
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 compresso...
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Square Pot Mould Blueprint
The mould for the square pot. Its planned to be cut from 3mm steel, welded and grinded.
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Open Air Workshop#7 - Compressing
a quick break with guys who joined us today
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Open Air Workshop#7 - Compressing
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 compr...
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Heaters for the Extruder
the heaters for the extruder arrived, built by Svetlost Užice.
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Improving the Moulds
Moulds had to be improved for better performance. Both the chinese dishes, as the hexagon bowl mould that we made.
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Open Air Workshop#6 - Compressing
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This goes serious
Bowls made in HDPE plastic, need finishing.
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Hexagon Bowl Mould Finished
The hexagon bowl mould is finished and the first test could be made.
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Hexagon Bowl Mould Parts
Bowl part have been laser cut by Limar in steel 3mm thick (5000rsd). Now we are preparing them for welding.
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Hexagon Bowl Mould Welded and Polished
The welded bowl mould and polished.
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Hexagon Bowl Mould Assembling
It is necessary to fix bowl mould parts with the tape very precisely so they are well positioned for welding.
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Hexagon Bowl Mould Welding
Starting to weld te moulds goes in phases.
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Hooper for the Extruder
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.
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Hooper Attached to the Pipe
Finally the hopper can be attached to the pipe.
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Making hole in the Pipe
The hole to in the pipe where hopper will come has to be cut very precisely.
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Mini Plant Set Up
Finally we set up two machines shredder and extruder working simultaneously, so the work process could go faster.
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Buying pipe in Ledine / 3rd intent
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 2000RSD f...
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Sorting HDPE Plastic by Colours
After PP we passed to shred HDPE plastic today.
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Slobodan Neighbour the Saviour!
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 connec...
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Minipogon working uniforms
Embroidering signature on the working uniforms
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Small Bowl
Small bowl (PP). The shredded plastic on the bottom didn't fused completely, but it left nice rustic effect.
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Extruder Screw
Technical diagram of extrusion screw. The tapered core section is apparent: as the material is brought to the front of the screw, it is compressed aga...
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Bowl #01
The first bowl that we had made. 200gr (PP)
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Bowl #2 with finishing
Second bowl with finishing. 250gr (PP)
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Cup Tray
Small tray (PP)
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Bowl #2 No Finishing
Second bowl we made, at the moment without finishing. 300gr
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Installing Compressor in Miksalište
It was necessary to do some adjustments on the compressor when we transported it to Miksalište in pieces.
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Working Table
Various compressing experiments (except the Christmas egg tray found on the garbage).
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Transporting Compressor to Miksalište
Today we transported the compressor to Miksalište in order to start compressing there. For this we had to disassemble it in pieces. Two french girls w...
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Planing new machine: Extruder&Injector
Chow and Dača are making sketches of how our new machines should be constructed.
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Compressing plastic: Test #3
A test is made with 2 identical stainless-steel bowls (found in the chinese supermarket 720rsd both). Plastic used: PP Temperature: 205C Duration: 30m...
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Compressing plastic: Test #3
A plastic bowl could also be used as a hat, for when it's raining :)
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Compressing plastic: Test #3
3 following tests with different provisional bowl made in different colours of polypropylene plastic. Problems encountered included uneven thicknesses...
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Compressing plastic: Test #2
The results show that 200 gr of plastic was not enough to fill the volume between the bowls, but melting was consistent and the thickness was even due...
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Compressing plastic: Test #2
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 volume...
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testing the compression - 3
the mould is cooled under water
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testing the compression - 3
The mould is removed from the plastic
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testing the compression - 1
the mould is filled with shredded polypropylene from various sources
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testing the compression - 4
The compressed piece of recycled plastic
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testing the compression - 2
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 the m...
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Putting Isolation to the Compressor
stone wool isolation has to be cut so to leave place for passing all the wiring and ventilation tube..
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Putting Isolation to the Compressor
All electric installations are set so we started putting stone wool isolation around the oven. Stone wool was purchased in Uradi Sam departmat store f...
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Putting Isolation to the Compressor
Attaching isolation on the compressor has to be performed outdoors as and with the required caution as the stone wool could result toxic.
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Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding & Shredding
the people around miksaliste/migrants are joining the process and are interested in the possibilities of recycling
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Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding
the people around miksaliste/migrants are joining the process and are interested in the possibilities of recycling
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Open Air Workshop#4 - Shredding
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- polypr...
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Extrusion screw arrived!
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 pur...
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Open Air Workshop#3 - Shredding
The workshop crew. Lots of shredding..
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Open Air Workshop#2 - Shredding
Second Worksop in Miksilište! We managed to fix the problem we had with 3-phase electricity. It was done by intoducing Variable frequency drive we bou...
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Open Air Workshop#2 - Shredding
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 cut...
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Open Air Workshop#1 - Prepared Plastic for Shredding (PP)
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 colours ...
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Open Air Workshop#1 - Preparing Plastic for Shredding (PP) - cutting
Guys from Pakistan were cutting the plastic while sharing our life and work experiences
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Open Air Workshop#1 - Washing Plastic
First working session in front of Miksalište we used for selecting, cutting and washing collected plastic. Some plastic was collected in Miksiliste an...
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Taking Shredder for a Walk
For the first time the Shredder was took out for a walk. We had to transport it to Miksalište (refugee day center) for its inauguration. On the half w...
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Announcing the Opening of the Open Air Workshop at Mixalište
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 Miksalište...
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Collecting Waste Plastic
Plastic containers (from BelgrAid) are used for collecting different types of plastic from domestic use.
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first activation of oven
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 compres...
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turning on temperature controller
Powering on temperature controller for the first time for testing, only the power cable is connected and all other connections are absent, to check fo...
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Compressor is almost finished
We've almost finished the second machine - compressor! Some small electronic stuff and isolation left.
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electronic temperature control system testing
All electronic and electric components of the oven, connected and functioning. From left to right: Original oven thermostat connected between the soli...
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test mold No. 1
the first trial mold in which we will test how the compression machine and plastic react
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Drilling hole for grounding wire
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
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Grounding wire connected
Grounding wire connected and secured. Also note connections to the two heating elements on the near (right) side and the single element on the far (le...
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connecting the heaters with the thermostat
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 earth ...
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digital thermostat arrived
digital thermostat arrived from kupujem/prodajem https://www.kupujemprodajem.com/Digitalni-termostat- Rex-C-100- PID-SSR-40A-K-tip-senzor-57751797- og...
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compressing platform completed
view of the compressor machine with all the parts assembled - except the electrical parts and the insulation that are yet to come
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compressing platform tube
view of the positioned tube that raises compressing platform
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compressing platform mechanism
view of the compressing platform mechanism without the oven
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grinding the guiding tube
grinding welds that are attaching guiding tube to
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welding the guiding tube
view of the guiding tube being welded on to a stand
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top panel for the compressing platform
preparation for the welding
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grinding the found tube
grinding the found tube that will be used in the mechanism of the compressing platform as a guidance
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drilling the hole in the bottom wall of the oven
drilling the hole for the compressing platform tube
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the completed oven stand
the oven legs of the oven stand have been
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completing the oven frame
the oven frame is welded onto the oven unit
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building oven stand
the legs of the the oven stand are welded
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side view of oven
side view showing oven door and gas exhaust pipe
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oven and oven stand
oven frame and oven stand, ready to be welded together
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griding the oven frame before welding
the surfaces to be welded are ground down to remove old welding bumps, thus ensuring the parts fit together
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the oven
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 orient...
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building the oven frame
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 support...
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disassembling the cooker
we got the 2nd hand cooker for 3.000RSD through Kupindo.com and it is disassembled in order to extract the oven
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cleaning the oven parts
the oven is disassembled, and its parts need deep cleaning as its covered with a tick layer of fat
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taking the measures for the structure
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 to ...
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shredder works!
We connected everything and the shredder worked! And successfully shredded couple of plastic bottles..
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connecting electricity
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 connexions -...
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fixing the motor to the structure
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 rigid ...
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Mesh no.1
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 entire l...
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Extending the structure 2
Tijana, who just joined our team is flattening the welds with the grinder.
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Wooden board
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 exactl...
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Extending the structure
As the motor with reductor is bigger than we initially planned (it has lineal not lateral axis) we had to make extension of the basic structure.
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making connection between motor and shredder/ making machine 1
Making the connection between shredder and motor in PRO-MLIN workspace in New Belgrade. Transport of the whole structure of the machine 1 from Praksa ...
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making connection between motor and shredder/ making machine 1
Making the connection between shredder and motor in PRO-MLIN workspace in New Belgrade. Transport of the whole structure of the machine 1 from Praksa ...
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motor & reductor
after long consultations we decided for the motor with reductor from Paraćin, that we found on Kupindo.com. Propositions 1,5KW, 60rpm, price: 200EUR
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meeting with comessariat
We had meeting with Commissariat for refugees discussing for a long time details of our project and possibilities for collaboration. Coordinator Neda ...
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distribution of posters for the 1st workshop
we distributed the posters to the places which refugees attend, Miksalište, Infopark, some were sent to the camps in Krnjača and Obrenovac
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1st presentation
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 to be ...
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looking for motor&reductor
we dedicated lots of time to search for a motor with reductor for both shredder and extruder. lots of consultations and looking for different models a...
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making hopper
Hopper is made from the thin metal. We ordered parts from Jeep (500rsd) and welded it ourselves.
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feet for the stability of the structure
as 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
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metal structure
Welding metal structure for the shredder machine. Metal bars: 13 eur, Jeep, Karađorđeva
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frenzekovanje
frenzekovanje - lowering the angle of the holes on the sides of the shredder box
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assembling shredder box
our first working day in Praksa Makerspace in Kraljevića Marka stret in Belgrade. Assembling shredder box.
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bearings arrived
bearings arrived from Živko i sinovi. Price: 860 RSD
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hexagon axel
we ordered hexagon axel from Kosinox.rs (Smederevski put..). Price 3.900RSD
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Shredder Box Parts Arrived
Shredder box parts were ordered from Germany, thanks to Katharina Elke who made a contact for us, and organised a bulk order via Precious Plastic foru...
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