mobile fabriek - Amsterdam - NL

During the Habitat Platform, the raw foundation came into contact with ‘De Mobiel Fabriek,b.v.’, an Amsterdam based company that is developing a mobile rubble-to-block factory in 14 containers, that will provide building materials from rubble in disaster areas. In a productive and inspiring meeting with Florens van den Bosch and his colleague, it was discussed how part of the development research will be directed at the adaptation of the process in order to use ‘other’ materials, following the raw goals and could be seen as a development of one of the prototypes mentioned in rawstuff - 08.2006 - the sealed,compressed,plastic-waste lego-block.
Potential collaborations in the context of brainstorming and concept development were discussed, where raw would be contracted to join the development team. This type of contract work, a source of private income for the foundation, will eventually reduce the dependance on subsidies.

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Remade - Johannesburg - RSA

“The Remade Group is a member of the Institute of Waste Management and very active in the war against waste.“

Remade is a municipal waste collection group, that are also manufacturing roof-tiles form tetrapak waste.
Having made contact with them, raw sees Remade as a potential source of paper-bales, plastic waste, among other materials, inspiration and collaboration.