... of production. So, the difference of value between the used bronze and the leftover bronze is not a quality of the material itself but it is just the human manufacturing. What is wrought (man-made) is noble, what is rough (self-made, otherwise made, existing besides human crafts) is waste. What is used by man...

...Alison Creba Purpose Building on the thematic intersection of architectural waste and conservation, the purpose of this paper is to look at the demolition and deconstruction of Honest Ed’s and Mirvish Village – an iconic site in downtown Toronto. In doing so, it examines contradictory site values...

...Staffan Appelgren Purpose The purpose of this paper is to adopt posthumanist perspectives on waste as traces of life to investigate how the alternative heritage work of redesigners transforms discarded building materials into reuse interior designs. It combines recent research on waste, shifting...