Intangible Concepts To A Blind Person

Here's one of Tommy Edisons You tube clips we looked at in the lecture as an example of ways of knowing.

Rekindle

Rekindle

Rekindle is a social enterprise that makes furniture, sculpture, interiors and jewellery from waste wood. We focus on the social and environmental value of our work, that’s what makes us tick.

Rekindle is concerned equally with:

• Reusing wood waste

• Enabling meaningful transformative work opportunities

• Creating a healthy and satisfying workplace that encourages learning

• Nurturing creative responses to wood waste

• Producing commercially viable and marketable products that increase demand for reuse of wood waste.

Our mission is to support communities to utilise their wood waste fully and in doing so, maximize the benefits of the purposeful work involved. Rekindle works to create employment and learning opportunities, and to actively enable people to participate in meaningful valued activity. We are a social enterprise strongly committed to these concerns, and any profits go into development of opportunities that further our ability to do this work.

Beautiful ancient and irreplaceable indigenous timber such as kauri, matai and rimu are most commonly diverted from waste and reused at Rekindle.

In Christchurch we are working to intercept the hurried disposal of reusable timber from earthquake-damaged homes, but there is so much wood going to waste that we cannot save due to limited resources. Rekindle products are a constructive response from within Christchurch as it remembers and rebuilds.

 

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Juliet Arnott is an artist and designer, and has been an occupational therapist for 17 years. Last year, she founded Rekindle, a social enterprise that makes furniture and other useful objects from waste wood.