ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
The Upcycled Clinic: A global ethnography of material creativity in contemporary medicine
As the world wades through Covid-19 pandemic debris, it becomes harder to ignore that medicine is a distinctly wasteful enterprise. Hospitals in particular have become nodes of disposability. Solutions to this problem has to date attracted mostly the attention of medical technology companies promoting circular economies, a model still reliant on production and technological innovation. The Upcycled Clinic takes a different direction. This ethnographic project focuses on creative practices such as repurposing in the clinic, involving making the most of existing materials. Five sub-projects have been carefully selected with illuminating examples around the world including Antarctica, Ghana,…
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