Drawing on speculative and critical design, the project invited participants to rethink waste—not as something to throw away, but as a material for consuming, making, thinking, and learning.

Over two years, I hosted five workshops with over 100 participants, from international academic events to public art festivals. The workshops invited people to Eat (sample foods made from commonly wasted ingredients), Waste (explore and break down food-based waste), and Make (use discarded materials to create prints, collages, or artifacts). These activities used safe, familiar materials like fruit peels, yogurt containers, and food packaging to connect participants’ personal habits to larger systems of consumption and disposal.

Presented in Canada and abroad, Eat, Waste, Make brought critical food literacy into public and artistic spaces. It responded to Canada’s alarming status as the top producer of solid waste per capita, turning discarded materials into a platform for reflection, creativity, and change.