Adam Ben-Dror

Great to meet Teddy from the @therecreatorsnz at the quarterly @zero_waste_aotearoa community Waste Wise Skillshare and talk about how to increase community engagement. Teddy is making an embroidered brooch for a colleague. Materials used = reclaimed laser cut fabric and green wool.

Tāmaki Makaurau, IT’S A WRAP! Some highlights from last night’s ELECTRIC BODIES at Audio Foundation @audio.foundation Thank you for having us there, shout out to the wonderful tech team Matt, Sam and Jeff, who supported our shows all the way through, above and beyond. ❤️ Today WE STILL HAVE YUMMY WORKSHOPS! Book your tickets while they’re still available! ⚡️ Join Sarah @sezmoves  in the morning 11am-1:30pm, with GREEN SITES and Ivan @ivan.lupi.performance.artist  3-5pm, in ECHOES IN THE PRESENT. And, next week, we get to Ōtautahi! Woop woop. Tickets via link in bio. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Photos by Jaehwan Lee @jaehwan1010 1. Antonia Barnett-McIntosh — Soft Mouth | The language of fffflowers @antoni__abm 2. Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann & Clare Luiten — Roto / Matter / Tū / Gather @ruckstuhlmann 3. Adam Ben-Dror & Uncredited Performer — Capacitive Touch @adambendror 4. Surprise! Impromptu performance

Thrilled to be performing with Uncredited Performer on 16 obsolete iPads (among other things) at 8pm tonight @audio.foundation for the amazing @performanceartweekaotearoa , alongside many other immensely talented artists. Be there! Tickets - /electric-bodies-auckland/ Supported by

💡💡Excited to be exhibiting three lamps made variously in collaboration with @hannahleejade @alexsguthrie and @urbanepiphyte as part of In The Making - Design from Aotearoa Exhibition @mysilopark All lamps are made from locally foraged materials. Ingredients include LED diodes from "dead" energy saver lightbulbs, SCOBY brewed from Bamboo Leaf Tea, wool batting from mattress factory offcuts. Exhibition runs 10.00am-6.00pm Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March / Silo6 Silo Park Would love to see you there! https://designersinstitute.nz/events/in-the-making-a-designer-led-exhibition/ Well done and thanks to @cbd_ltd for organizing!

Adam and I made a lamp out of waste last year. Lots of hardwork learning to use Fusion/CNC in the DesignLab, with generous help from Jamie Coombe. Come and see it (and other amazing creations) in this exhibition, opening this Friday at Silo 6 https://designersinstitute.nz/events/in-the-making-a-designer-led-exhibition/

Really proud to have played a part in the creation of Abilitopia. I made a hybrid AI / human powered robot (In collaboration with the amazing @fuuu.zhou ) who features in the show. Premieres this Sunday @tepoutheatre . Runs 26th - 28th Feb. Would love to see you there! Get ya tickets! Ticket link in bio. Sound by the amazing @k.ristian.larsen Dance by the amazing @ravenfaasu , @julie.vanrenen , Duncan Armstrong & BFF Light by the amazing @filamenteleven11 Creative direction by the amazing @suz_dance_collab_nz

Tī Pakapaka nā Louie Zalk-Neale rāua ko @adambendror , 2025 [sᴏʟᴅ] Whā tī kōuka (cabbage tree leaves), clothes dryer heating coil, modified bike light, oyster shell, cables, DC transformers. Louie and Adam's collaboration Tī Pakapaka looks at reclaiming the electrical waste that flows out of our homes and into the world, tangling with the heavy duty fibre of tī kōuka leaves, and eventually becoming the segmented bodies of insect larvae. Louie Zalk-Neale (Ngāi Te Rangi, Pākehā) is a takatāpui artist based in Ōtaki. Mahi tī kōuka (working with NZ cabbage trees) is the foundational pūtake of Louie's work. Tough leaves combined with discarded plastic and waste materials form intricate body adornments and sculptural objects that Louie often activates in performances. Tī kōuka guides Louie's vision of queerness as an indicator of healthy natural and cultural systems. Adam Ben-Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and inventor currently based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. He co-runs Local Making, a neighborhood scale laboratory for exploring open-source making, joyful playing, inquisitive thinking and resourceful living in an interconnected world with Xin Cheng. Exhibited at ‘Tūtahi Lite’ artist lamp exhibition, curated by @heidibrickell and @jackbhadley at @grace_aotearoa Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, with 25% of proceeds going to @aucklandactionagainstpoverty . Photos by @samuel_hartnett

Here is BES, a lamp to tell a story of human and earth's resilience. (Bamboo E-waste and SCOBY, Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.) By @adambendror @alexsguthrie and me. With Adam’s practice of harvesting and repurposing the waste of electronics, including lithium batteries from old laptops and LED bulbs, to illuminate our lamp. Alex's crafting and sensitivity to wood fibres and resources, carefully curved, locally harvested bamboo pieces, to form the structure. Three weeks of grown SCOBY leather made with the same bamboo plant's leaf to make the kombucha tea, for it to feed on, dried and stretched, becoming the lampshade's skin. This all came together, stitching the fibres and materials together, avoiding glue to create a piece that felt true and honest in design, celebrating all its materials and the three of us as makers. BES the lamp's name is inspired by the acronym of SCOBY, the way to transparently share its materiality, the precious resources that have gone into creating her. BES, Bamboo Ewaste and Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. Growing materials, collaborating and harnessing the earth's energy to bring solutions of future materials to life. I love to call this bio-collaboration, well aware that there are many words and practices for this in the wisdom keepers' indigenous knowledges that have been passed through in practice for centuries. I acknowledge that this process existed, and as I am learning with the organisms, I try my best to honour and be aware of the colonial systems that are able to exploit. Step by step, making sure to go with reciprocity.

Over the past three seasons, we made a video, 'Stories of Te Auaunga Oakley Creek' You can see it online here (until Nov 9): https://tetuhi.art/soft-shell-permission-slip/ Also onsite @soft_shell_parnell , Parnell Station, Tāmaki Makaurau & @chchartgallery , Ōtautahi Christchurch .nz/exhibitions/he-kapuka-oneone Thanks to the Asian Artist Fund from @foundationnorth & @creativenz

#backcasting #micromobility for #creativeaging with @visions.of.christ

Work in progress! #backcasting #micromobility for #creativeaging with @snakebeings & @visions.of.christ @zero_waste_network

Tāmaki Makaurau friends - Open Call for Participation! Hackers and Designers Summer (aka Aotearoa Winter) Academy 2022 Connecting Otherwise 16-23 July 2022 > Negative Emissions and Waste Studies Programme and A Place for Local Making will be hosting the H&D Summer Academy in person in Aotearoa (formerly known as New Zealand) in a variety of locations in around the city of Tāmaki Makaurau (activities will mainly be held in Mairangi Bay), (other nodes in Seoul, Berlin/Online, and Amsterdam). > We are available over the period of the Summer Academy (16-23 July 2022) and will organise specific times to suit us and the participants who sign up. > Some activity will be in-person (at homes, community centres, and on the street), some online, and some asynchronous. >Participation is free but any additional material costs need to be covered by participants. >Daily lunches are self-organized by participants but we welcome food sharing. >We mainly use English for local events but speak a variety of, and WELCOME, any other languages. >Please let us know in the form if you have any access needs that we should take into consideration. Details and signup here: http://tiny.cc/hackersdesigners Please message if you have any questions