Recycling Day is an event centered on collective building and sharing. Operating in the space between a gravel pile and a building, yyyy-mm-dd presents a new instantiation of their ongoing research into textile forms that become structural when filled with loose aggregate. Sand, gravel, and small rocks account for 75% of concrete's composition, and their binding, via cement, yields 8% of total annual global carbon emissions. As the dissolution of twentieth-century structures reminds us of architecture's inclination to nonetheless settle, Recycling Day proposes alternative modes of gathering through (and within) a temporary assemblage of loose matter.

Drop-in participatory workshop on Saturday, April 11. RSVP to info@materialsandapplications.org for location and time. 

yyyy-mm-dd ︎ is a collaborative project of Kate Yeh Chiu and François Sabourin.

About Staging Construction

Staging Construction is an exhibition and public program by Materials & Applications that explores construction as both practice and performance. The winter program includes Scoring, Building, an experimental installation by Michelle JaJa Chang, alongside performances, lectures and participatory workshops by Neil Denari, Alex Maymind, Tommy Hill, and yyyy-mm-dd (Kate Yeh Chiu and François Sabourin), amongst others. Staging Construction is curated by Jia Yi Gu with support from the Contemporary Council of M&A (CCMA).