THE ACCHIAPPARIFIUTI - THE GARBAGE COLLECTORS OF THE GOLDEN JOURNEY

The coastal shores of the great city of Naples are battered with landfills caused by poor waste management whose protagonist is the very humanity itself: the true Eco-Mafia. It is both a philosophical and psychological matter, which if understood under such anthropological parameters, one will not be astonished to realise the different variables at which this issue can manifest itself is subject to each individual perception of its implications within the local ecology. The perverse formalities under which the Eco-Mafia co-operates the illegal waste management comprise the Golden Journey, a lucrative route formed of a series of designated dumping hot spots to ‘relieve’ the waste in their control. As such, a new form of architecture is being proposed, one that acts as the dissolving agent by becoming the very Golden Journey itself. It aims to break this prosperous money chain by substituting the hot-spots and working in ‘hidden’ surfaces, a change facilitated by Clement: a design group empowering handcraft processes and materiality to offer forgotten communities in less developed political zones the possibility to receive a fair trade through employment of skills to create garments and architecture. The architectural implications will propagandise ecological awareness onto the local and immigrant entities through implications and necessary ‘’exploitation’’ of the new sixth classical man-made element: the microfiber debris (obruta), a sustainable new raw material to be used within both the architectural and fashion industry. Without hesitation, it is best to perceive this new motion as combating our perverted and uncontrolled mass extinction of Earth.