iSchool scholar confronts rising tide of electronic waste
As an iSchool doctoral candidate, Nick Logler spent weeks rummaging through trash piles on the side of the road, ferreting around in thrift stores, and browsing platforms like Craigslist. Discarded desktop printers were his target, and he ultimately collected more than a dozen to supply workshops for middle schoolers to explore concepts like materiality and disassembly. They would take the defunct printers apart, then observe and identify the components beneath the surface. After brainstorming and reimagining applications for these parts, the students built entirely new objects. Workshops