How everything began?
After leaving my former job (beginnings of
2010) I thought on how to build something
enduring and useful, starting from my personal
conscience and from the need of finding again
the final direction I was now missing. I began
on my own, working with my creativity mainly
as a hobby, but then just by coincidence, I met
a girl from Ljubljana with my same vision of
using creative power to raise conscience of
people.
This meeting has been the first opportunity
to let grow a network of creative talented
people. Moreover, in order to better invest
my capacities, in 2014 I decided to attend a
course promoted by the Regional Development
Centre of Koper – PVSP Enterprisingly into
the business world, targeting unemployed
young adults with higher educational level,
who wished to learn how to manage an
individual entrepreneurship and to enhance
their managerial skills.
Another aim of the course, was to finalize the
planning of Reuse – recycle centres, which
ought to be sustainable under economical aspect and have to affect the communities with
long term impacts.
What do you do in order to promote green
conscience?
I could say I moved from creativity to promotion
and education on recycling. I collaborate with
educational institutions, and I run different
workshops in Slovenian schools, mainly in the
coastal area of Koper. The workshops aim to
raise awareness on responsible consumption,
recycling & reuse, home gardening and
sustainability. Moreover, I also plan different
activities outside schools for the promotion
of these issues, in order to let a different
conscience arise in this direction.
Another activity that is now successfully
growing, is the SWAP party: this is an
occasion for different people to exchange
in the shape of barter, their clothes, accessories
and other stuff they don’t use anymore; at the
moment we are involving mainly citizens, but
in the future we also expect to collaborate
with artists and tailors.
However, the real meaning of these parties,
is that people here also exchange their stories,
their traditions, and give another value to
objects, which in this case are not merely
linked to money, purchase and capitalism, but
instead reveal something of the people who
used to own them, and represent an important
step for reuse of things.