Exploring the ways in which our cultures produce, process, appropriate and transform waste, is a vital issue for a museum of society like the Mucem.
Based on ethnographic investigations conducted in Turkey, Albania, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Morocco, and in south-east France (Marseille and its metropolis), this exhibition aims to raise public awareness about individual and collective waste management by exploring the ways that we collect, sort, repair, and transform refuse with the inventiveness that springs from necessity. Whether subject to diversions or high-tech treatments, waste gives shape to our landscapes and our social relations.
This exhibition encourages us to question our lifestyles and models of consumption and production through more than 450 objects, documents, installations, lms, maps and diagrams.