CONSIDERING WASTE

Authors

  • Ieva Butkutė Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37522/a60fmw78

Keywords:

Waste, post-industrialisation, Kėdainiai , industrial architecture, Phosphorus, agricultural bi-products, future monuments, supply-chain, food chain

Abstract

Ieva Butkutė’s visit to the industrial phosphogypsum mountains of Kėdainiai visually tracks the uncomfortable tension that lies between personal ethics and systems of large-scale wasting.

Author Biography

  • Ieva Butkutė

    Ieva Butkutė is a Lithuanian architect who graduated in 2021 with an MA degree. Now she is in her second year of doctoral studies in architecture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She is rethinking cycles of life and the meaning of waste, and seeks to find non-destructive ways to redesign the environment. Her current research focuses on industrial sites, their materiality, by-products, the automation of industrial processes, and the phenomenon of industrial areas as huge architectural complexes disconnected from city life.

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Published

2025-02-21

Issue

No. 1 (2025): Edge of the Glacier

Section

Articles