WHAT TO DO WITH BAGS?
Aleksandra Knezevic, Melina Sadikovic, Stefan

Concept
Public action named WHAT TO DO WITH BAGS? is aiming to animate broader community with all its actors as on the individual as well as on collective level. Plastic PVC bags are just one of the many material evidence of our inadvertently attitude towards environment we are living in. The reasons for this behavior are mostly grounded in the lack of interest we have, our indifference which are mainly coming from lack of knowledge and lack of the interest to make any changes in our life , habits, attitude, and thus in our environment. One of the goals of this action is to open the question of responsibility, as individual as well as collective in the process of accumulating the non-degradable waste in our environment.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, as in the other countries in the world, are initiated many campaigns, pilot projects as initiatives on different levels of organization focused on solving the problem of accumulation and uncontrolled use of PVC bags. Still, all around us all we can here is just rustling, and this is one of the main reasons which motivated us to set simple but very important question HAT TO DO WITH BAGS? It is important to open communication and enable fluctuation of information regarding to the problems of control of the consumption of plastic bags.
The idea is to fill the space of Gallery 10m2 and thus on symbolic way demonstrate and visualize the consequences coming out of our attitudes and our acting in the society we are living in.

Cronology of the event and concrete actions
The first day of opening that is setting the question WHAT TO DO WITH BAGS? Space of the Gallery will be filled with plastic bags we collected in the period of 9 months, feeling responsibility and trying to find a way to protect our streets, parks, mountains and rivers from plastic shopping bags we are overwhelmed with. Also we will use this opportunity to invite visitors for help and to bring plastic shopping bags they are collecting in the period from Friday, 9 of October to Saturday, 7 of November, 2009.
On this way we would like to involve the visitors in the search for the answer on the question of the month: WHAT TO DO WITH BAGS?. It is imagine that visitors can contribute, beside the active involvement by bringing plastic shopping bags to the Gallery, but also by writing concrete suggestions into the book of suggestions which will be exposed in the Gallery. It is also important to stress that visitors will have a chance to get the information about harmfulness of plastic bags to the human heath but also to the environment, as about the concrete campaigns and projects focused on the solving the problem of uncontrolled consumption of plastic bags as well as information about the ways they can contribute in protecting the environment from plastic bags.

Goals
- To identify actors, organizations as individuals who are actively involved in the process of solving the problem of uncontrolled consumption of plastic bags
- To exchange information about the existing initiatives, pilot projects, campaigns as well as previous experiences of controlling the consumption of plastic bags
- To invite identified actors to present theirs projects and methods to the public
- Informing the public about harmfulness of plastic bags for human health as for the environment
- To inform about the recycling in general as about the different ways of recycling of plastic bags and its positive social, economical and ecological impact
- To perform how with minimal or zero budget and good will community can make big and positive changes in a way to invite people to be more responsible, creative and inventive and to contribute in creating positive changes in their society
- In cooperation with other public actors to inform public and educate them about the process of recycling as to raise awareness about the problem of uncontrolled production, consumption as well as the lack of advocate measures of solving the problem of plastic bags in our environment

We are not offering the solution, we are inviting people to looking for the solution together!

ŠTA S KESAMA?
Aleksandra Knežević, Melina Sadiković, Stefan

Koncept
Javna akcija pod nazivom ŠTA S KESAMA? ima za cilj da potakne širu zajednicu sa svim njenim akterima na individualnom i kolektivnom nivou. Pastične PVC kese su jedan od mnoštva materijalnih dokaza našeg nesavjesnog odnosa prema okolini u kojoj živimo, našoj nezainteresovanosti i indiferentnosti koje u većini slučajeva potiču iz neznanja i nedostatka želje da se bilo šta mijenja. Jedan od ciljeva akcije je da se otvori pitanje odgovornosti , kako individualne, tako i kolektivne u procesu zatrpavanja naše okoline nerazgradivim otpadom.
U Bosni i Hercegovini, kao i u drugim zemljama u svijetu postoji niz inicijativa za rješavanje problema nagomilavanja i nekontrolirane potrošnje plastičnih kesa, na različitim nivoima organizacije, međutim imajući u vidu činjenicu da se po tom pitanju ne mijenja baš mnogo i da svijet oko nas i dalje šuška, odlučili smo se da postavimo jednostavno i vrlo važno pitanje: ŠTA S KESAMA? I na taj način pokušamo da otvorimo komunikaciju uspostavimo sistem fluktuacije informacija o načinima kontrole potrošnje PVC kesa.
Ideja je da se prostor galerije 10m2 napuni kesama i na taj način simbolički prikaže, odnosno vizualiziraju posljedice koje prozilaze iz našeg stava, odnosno našeg djelovanja u okruženju u kojem živimo.

Hronologija dešavanja i konkretne akcije
Prvi dan otvaranja, 9. oktobra 2009., odnosno javnog postavljanja pitanja ŠTA S KESAMA? prostor Galerije 10m2 će biti ispunjen kesama koje smo prikupili u periodu od 9 mjeseci, osjećajući odgovornost i pokušavajući pronaći način da zaštitimo naše ulice, parkove, planine i rijeke od kesa kojima nas se svakodnevno zatrpava tokom obavljanja svakodnevne kupovine.
Tom prilikom ćemo pozvati posjetitelje da napunimo prostor kesama u periodu od petka, 9. 10. do subote, 7. 11. 2009. godine,ali i da u navedenom periodu zajedno pokušamo pronaći rješenje, odnosno odgovor na pitanje ŠTA S KESAMA?
Na taj način bi se posjetioci/posjetiteljke aktivno uključili/le u potragu odgovora na pitanje mjeseca: ŠTA S KESAMA?, upisujući svoje prijedloge u knjigu prijedloga koja će biti izložena u prostoru Galerije 10m2, ali i dobijanjem informacija o štetnosti PVC kesa po zdravlje i okolinu, kao i o aktualnim kampanjama, inicijativama kao i načinima rješavanja ovog problema koji se sprovode u zajednici.

Ciljevi
- identificirati aktere, organizacije, individue, koj/e/i su aktivno angažirani na rješavanju problema plastičnih kesa ,
- razmjena informacija o postojećim incijativama, pilot projektima, kampanjama, kao i o prethodnim iskustvima kontroliranja potrošnje PVC kesa
- pozvati identificirane aktere da predstave javnosti svoje ideje i metode rješavanja problema
- infomiranje javnosti o štetnosti PVC kesa po zdravlje ljudi i okoline
- informiranje o procesu recikliranja generalno, odnosno o načinima recikliranja konkretno PVC kesa, kao i o povoljnim ekonomskim, socijalnim i ekološkim efektima smanjenja koje donosi ograničena, odnosno zabrana upotrebe kesa
- pokazati kako se sa minimalnim budžetom i dobrom voljom može pokrenuti zajednica na način da ljudi budu odgovorniji, kreativniji i da svojim ličnim angažmanom doprinesu pozitivnim promjenama u svom okruženju
- zajedničkim angažmanom informirati javnost, educirati ih o procesu recikliranja, podići svijest o problemu nekontrolirane proizvodnje, potrošnje i nedostatka plana za rješavanje problema PVC kesa.

Mi ne nudimo rješenje, mi pozivamo ljude da ga zajedno potražimo!

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