Treasure Island

Choosing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island as my 3rd city of interdependence came as a natural progression throughout my previous discoveries/explorations/adventures in Nowa Huta and Sheffield. In Nowa Huta, a second hand shop which became popular amongst us in Studio Six was refered to by locals in the neighbourhood as ‘Treasure Island’. Later, I stumbled upon my first piece of ‘treasure’ here also. For more details refer to blogroll #10.

This started me on a path of inquiry; what is treasure? What is junk?  Why are things perceived of different value? Who decides which?

Later, more reading into other similar novels in the same genre of treasure hunting and ‘epic’ journeys, seems to further emphasise the question of ‘treasure’ and how ‘value’ is possibly a relative notion/suggestion. This thematic development has started to inform a project brief which revolves around the concept of waste management in the urban environment today.

What can we classify as waste? Is there a way in adding ‘value’  of so-called waste before we add to the count of landfills?

Is one man’s junk another man’s treasure?

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