Sustainability Efforts

Energy

Disorient camp at Burning Man is aiming to use 95% renewable energy by 2027. We have been working on solar solutions for Geodesic Temple with our friends at Black Rock Labs since 2017.

Mixed plastic recycling

Goals: - Self-reliant plastic recycling solution
- Recycle plastics without pre-sorting and with no or minimum pre-washing. For long-term solution, need to weave plastic recycling into our lives which mean to form a habit (if not a ritual) of plastic recycling. - Reduce stress on waste management and recycling infrastructure
- Does not require water, chemicals, additives, adhesives, or fillers
- Protects our planet, oceans, waterways, and wildlife

To reduce our plastic waste we need to make plastic recycling easy, hyper-local and streamlined. To do so, we plan to use a plastic chipper which reduces plastic to little chips and a brick compressor which compresses the plastic chips into bricks similar to this one or that one to create bricks following this example.

Plastic chipper at the Museum of Space Available, Bali, Indonesia:

Plastic chipper and brick compressor at Monsieur Spoon in Pererenan, Bali, Indonesia:

We would like to use solar heat to melt or at least soften the plastic chips to help the brick-making compressing process.

We plan to bring a plastic chipper and a brick compressor to the playa. If you know of a camp that uses them please let us know. We would love to learn from/with them.

Our goal is not only to become self-reliant when it comes to plastic recycling by doing this recycling on-site (immediacy) but also to start using the resulting plastic bricks (and possibly other objects) as a component of our art installations.

Disorient Unplugged

What does Disorient look like without electricity?
Disorient Unplugged is a new type of Disorient event that requires no electricity.
Bali and India are possible testing grounds.