Waste Land is a project about demolition and construction waste and their impact on the climate crisis. It asks what the scale and scope of the waste produced by the built environment industry is, who is responsible for this, and how we can make these processes visible and tangible. 

The iterative interventions One Second Wasted and Spaces of Waste take the form of participatory workshops. In these workshops, audiences of 50 students of the built environment were invited to build representations of UK construction waste quantities to appreciate and critically reflect on the scale of the issue at hand. 

Studies in Waste is a photo-book depicting the materiality and processes of demolition in construction sites across London. 

The short film Waste Land provides a survey of these sites narrated by recombined excerpts of T.S. Eliot’s epic poem of the same name, a century after its publication, to portray contemporary loss and trauma of the climate emergency. 

Waste Land is a rallying cry for urgent systemic and cultural change for an industry threatening our existence.