Decontaminate the Discarded // Craft Contemporary

Exhibition & Creative Collaboration

Decontaminate the Discarded was a collaborative exhibition co-produced with designer Edward Linacre at Mycelium Studios.

The exhibition invited designers and artists to reimagine waste materials through processes of transformation, repair and creative re-use. The project explored how discarded materials might be “decontaminated”, not only physically, but conceptually- shifting our cultural relationship with waste from rejection to possibility.

Presented as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Contemporary Festival, the exhibition brought together emerging and established designers whose work challenged dominant narratives of consumption and disposability.

The opening night transformed the exhibition into a lively gathering space, with live music, poetry readings interrogating dominant cultures and a bar creating an atmosphere where conversation, creativity, activism and community could unfold alongside the work itself. By bringing together art, performance and social exchange, the event invited visitors to engage not only with the objects on display, but with the ideas and relationships they sparked.

Through installation, material experimentation and dialogue, the project asked how creative practice can contribute to new ecological imaginaries.

Role: Co-producer, event curator and exhibition organiser

Videography and Photography by Francesco Vicenzi, Organic Photo