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Tehran’s Garbage Project

Tehrans garbologiskt projekt

Date:

2017-2019

Client/Collaborator:

Tehran Urban Research and Planning Center (TURPC)

Poverty, inequality and waste.

Leila Papoli-Yazdi and Omran Garazhian conducted a garbological project in Tehran which aimed to determine the impacts of rising inflation and poverty on garbage-making habits of poor communities. The project was successful in anticipating the uprising the happened in the coming years in the studied districts. Meanwhile, we could find the garbage-making behaviour of subaltern and poor people, those who are usually absent from the sight of more powerful and privileged people. 




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