BOGOTA/HONG KONG
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Three Honorary
Mentions:
$1´000.000 COP / 2,500 HKD (for the filmaker)
$150.000 COP / 500 HKD (for the recycler featured in the video)
$450.000 COP / 1,500 HKD (for the filmaker)
Prize may increase subject to availability of sponsors for each of the cities
ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE
The Waste Pickers & Recyclers Project (WPRP) opens a challenge to you. If you are living in Bogota or Hong Kong and want to use the power of video to promote global awareness about the living conditions of waste pickers in your city, please enter our competition
KEY DATES AND DEADLINES
Submission Period July 1 - August 7, 2011
Juried Prize Winners Announced:
October 4, 2011 UNIANDINOS, Bogotá
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE
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To enter the contest submit the following:
1. A5 to 8 minute video documentary describing the daily life of a recycler in Bogota, or Hong Kong.
2. An online survey form about the recycler
from your documentary.
3. A Google Map Link, showing geographical data
about the recycler your documentary is about.
4. An informed consent form in which the recycler voluntarly agrees to the conditions of the documentary competition.
5. The online entry form.
Registration Procedure
Registration may be as an individual or team. All individuals must be 18 or over to participate. To register, an individual or team must either send an email to wastepickerproject_gmail.com, or fill out the following online registration form, and include all of the following information:
Write Registration as the subject of the email
Within five business days of receiving your email, WPRP
will reply with your registration number and more information about the competition. You will need the registration number when you submit the entry form. Thank you for taking up the Waste Picker & Recyclers challenge!
story tellers & statisticians
The WPRP wants to engage documentary makers in the development of data resources along with the stories they are telling. The lack of information about wastepickers in official statistics at national, regional and international levels make them invisible to researchers and policy makers. With your participation we can fill this gap in statistics, and make the living conditions of waste pickers in different urban contexts around the world visible.
Please download a printable version of our online survey and fill it out along with the waste picker your documentary is about. When you have it completed along with the rest of your material, please fill out the online survey that you will find along with our entry form.
WPRP_ENG-ESP_Encuesta a Recicladores.pdf
WPRP_ENG-CHINESE_329.pdf
story tellers & cartographers
Scavenging is neither a recent nor a marginal phenomenon, however their geography of scavengers within the city is still invisible. We invite you to also be a cartographer of the geography of waste pickers in your own city . If possible, submit map depicting the daily routes of waste collection along with your documentary. Through google maps, you can provide viewers of your documentary with a more comprehensive understanding of the story you are telling.
Learn how to create maps using "my maps" by Google, then be creative showing the journey of waste pickers from home to landfills, dumpsites or neighborhoods; their wanderings by donkey cart or simply sacks and backpacks; the joys and hardships of their itinerary; the places where they deliver the recycleling materials and get payment for their job; the places they sleep at night and their way back home. Add to your pictures, links, and all additional information you consider relevant. to the map. When you finish your map, make sure to make it private and submit the URL in the entry form .
We understand that this detailed route information may be sensitive for the waste picker, so this section of the competition is not mandatory.
CLICK HERE FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO "MY MAPS"
CLICK HERE FOR A SAMPLE OF A MAP DONE BY US
story tellers & responsibility
Being a documentary filmmaker is tough, your work will draw attention to issues of human rights, social justice and environmental protection. These are sensitive topics and not all actors involved in them would like to be featured in a public platform like the Internet. Therefore, we require that the recyclers who appear in your documentary agree to be featured in it fully aware that it will be publicly displayed. You also have to inform the recycler that the answers to the survey questions as well as the recycling routes will not be made public.
Please scan and send us a copy of informed consent form of the recycler featured in your video in PDF or JPEG to wastepickerproject_gmail.com. In the email, let us know your registration number.
WPRP-BOG-Consentimiento Informado.pdf
WPRP_informed consent form_Chinese.pdf
story tellers & a global audience
Please complete the online entry form and enter all required information. The first set of questions is about the participants in the Social Documentary Competition, the video, and the URL address of the google map. After finishing this page you will be requested to fill out the waste picker online survey that you should have already prepared before submitting this entry form.
Thank you for to taking up the Social Documentary Competition challenge!
CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE ONLINE ENTRY FORM FOR BOGOTA
CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE ONLINE ENTRY FORM FOR HONG KONG
WPRP-BOG-registration brochure.pdf
WPRP-HK-registration brochure.pdf
PARTNERS
what is the goal of the project
We all know that recycling renders great benefits to the environment by reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills and dumps, and reduces pollution and the energy required to obtain raw material from virgin sources. What is less evident is that recycling also helps a great number of people (in both the developed and the developing world) by providing an important source of income.
The Waste Pickers & Recyclers Social Documentary Competion is a participatory media and data collection event, our main objective is to learn about and record the lives of recyclers, and promote awareness about them and propose projects and initiatives to improve their working conditions. The material collected through this competition will be used in the future as a resource for a feature-length documentary and academic publications.
ASSOCIATES AND FELLOWS
ORGANIZERS
Alexander Niño is an Architect and Philosopher working in Slovenia. He designed the Waste Picker Shelter as part of his interest in community development and informal processes of urbanization in developing countries. He holds Master degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Paavo Monkkonen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong, where teaches courses in housing economics, urban planning and urban management, and social science research methods. He recently finished his PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley
BOGOTA
HONG KONG
18,000 families of recyclers collect almost one tenth of the daily waste produced in Bogotá. Paradoxically many of them are sheltered by the very waste they collect. Four barrel-shaped boxes in corrugated metal solves the equation of serving as a waste container and an easy-to-pull di-cycle for them to work and move. Boxes expand, rendering a shelter coated in reflective paint to become a visible part of the urban environment.
The Waste Picker Shelter started as a proposal for the "Design it: Shelter Competition" organized by the Guggenheim Museum. The initiative was well received by the competition's jury and the public, so we were encouraged to put the idea into motion.
The Waste Picker & Recyclers Social Documentary Competition emerges from the need to gather more information about the community of waste pickers before making design or policy recommendations. We want to invite anyone interested in producing a social documentary to describe the life of a waste picker in their local community. We will use this documentaries to advocate for the development of socially-responsible projects that benefit waste pickers around the world. In the menu at the right you can find more information about the waste pickers shelter proposal in Colombia. We hope that with your support we can develop more informed, feasible and community-targeted designs and policies to improve the lifes of waste pickers.
Coming up: Tijuana, Los Angeles & Belgrade
The WPRP Social Documentary Competition is a pilot project that will be launched first in Bogota, and Hong Kong. From the lessons learned with this competition we are expecting to extend the challenge to other locations. Our goal is to get to know communities of waste pickers around the globe, and share their local problems to a global audience
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