Circular Systemic Solution for Sustainable Tourism in European Islands by Movable Plant on a Boat and Co-Creation with Island Stakeholders
ReBoat aims at CoCreating an active and conscious island demand for creative solutions for the recycling and upcycling of collected waste objects and materials, primarily focusing on plastics and textile, coming from the local environment. The main objective of the project is to activate the island ecosystem of citizens, tourists, artists, designers, architects, and small-scale producers as artisans’ laboratories, engaged in building together a sustainable and inclusive system, beautiful for eyes, minds and souls and encouraging dialogue across cultures, disciplines, professions, talents, genders, and ages. A local, flexible and modular decentralised circular systemic solution will be promoted in three European islands, namely Ionian (GR), Eolian (IT) and Azores (PT). Within these ecosystems, 4-week events will be organized around the mobile plant on board of a Boat container, that will be placed in the islands to process a sub-set of locally generated waste flows and to be open to all actors. Citizens and tourists will be involved to provide needs and challenges, artists and designers will be engaged through novel touristic packages to provide solutions inspired by local art and culture. Lessons learnt will be collected along the project, to define a replication strategy in multiple rural and peripheral eco-systems. The results described in the success stories will demonstrate future potential industrial uptake of the movable plant, the learning and the CoCreation system. ReBoat is built upon an innovative research strategy that lays its groundwork on the Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative and focuses on laboratories activities and material knowledge to build up EU SMEs, artists and designers with a broad and transversal training. Likewise, ReBoat wants to promote a social change starting from the plastic and textile materials and regenerating circular processes’ knowledge, showing it through a flexible, accessible, mobile factory on the Boat.
