1. Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts,
DESIS-CHINA, BC, VALUDA, GZLCIA.
Guangzhou
Up-Cycling An workshop for China-UK
students to reuse industrial materails
Key words: low carbon design, Industry leftovers

2. Project: 51 students
and 17 staffs from ten UK
and six Chinese universities
together participated in a
two-week workshop to finish
67 pieces works using
industrial leftover to make .

3. Context: up-cycling involves using
something in a new way without doing
anything to reprocess the material it is made
from. It’ s possible to reuse items made of
materials which can’t be dealt with by
conventional recycling methods.

4. Design role: to find a
new way to help China
manufacture industry using
the industrial leftover to
make valuable products
directly and not pass the
traditional cycling process.