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Wohin mit all dem Zeux

Action week for the sustainable use of materials

A cluttered storage room filled with various rolls and bundles of fabric in different colors, stacked on shelves and piled on the floor. A metal ladder is positioned in the center, amid the packed materials, indicating a busy textile space.
A cluttered storage room filled with various rolls and bundles of fabric in different colors, stacked on shelves and piled on the floor. A metal ladder is positioned in the center, amid the packed materials, indicating a busy textile space.
Photo: Peter Rossner

Stage sets, exhibition display cases, red carpets, trade fair stands, waste materials in companies:
Many materials ended up at the recycling centre far too early. In workshops and lectures, the Zeux initiative from Subbotnik e.V. developed creative ideas for the sustainable use of such waste materials. This resulted in highly individual products and new perspectives that showed that what was supposedly obsolete was not only materially valuable.

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This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.