Rethinking Recycling: A Crafting Framework Part 1 Project 2019 Lili Wagner Cardiff University | UK This project places a metal recycling centre at the heart of the city of Cardiff. Coupling plug-in, individual maker units with a new, public route through seeks to apply ideas of urban use and scale with sociologist Richard Sennett’s ideas of the Open City as a place for unexpected encounters.The exchange of, crafting and recycling of materials serves as a tool to amplify existing yet currently undervalued relationships between manufacturers and small-scale makers. The scheme advocated reinforcing the acquisition of skill within the workforce and introducing a circular, more sustainable lifecycle of materials.Building on the existing porosity of the site, the project aims to embed a new porous layer into the existing urban fabric, which mediates between the scales of material, people and infrastructure, by creating permeable and ambiguous borders between them. Lili Wagner Tutor(s) Zoë Berman