Sunnking Donates E-Scrap for Syracuse University Architecture Student Project
Anastasija Gridneva, Katie Carroll, Robin Janik and Sascha Kollisch, four graduate students at Syracuse University, were enrolled in a course this Spring called ARC 553: Collage. The course challenges students to engage collage in both art and architecture. The syllabus of the course states that the course is "about investigating how space is created and understood through the method of collage, assemblage, and installation."
The final project for the graduate students challenged them to create installations using E-Waste. The students were very intrigued by the size, shape, and movement of the computer fans. The students reached out to Sunnking and were supplied with over 1,500 fans for the final installation of their project.
The 1,500 fans were zip tied together into cubes and stacked together to create a six foot wall at the entrance of Shaffer, an academic building on campus. The student's goal was to "create a structure that created a barrier, but still allowed the viewer to look through the spaces while listening to the distinct sound of the fans spinning in the wind."
E-Scrap represents 2% of America's trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste. Sunnking was happy to be a part of the students' project which reused the computer fans one more time before returning them to be e-cycled. eScrap is a growing concern on a global level. With finite natural resources on our planet, it is important to reuse and recycle electronics.