Public

Sustainability
Beach Hut
Public Sustainability Beach Hut is a participatory
experience inviting tourists and locals to
actively tackle the waste they often leave
behind at Brighton beach. The project is built
upon a co-design and open design approach
with Brighton’s City Council office, people and
creatives.

Acting as a meeting point between human and

holidays, land rubbish and the Ocean, the beach
is a context where a change in behaviour can
create a big difference. As mass consumption
is making us more apathetic and passive
towards the consequences of how objects
are disposed, the hut is a place for discussion
and action. Participants are invited to collect
and bring their plastics, aluminium or other
waste to the workshop. They can test different
techniques, re-craft on the spot to create a
durable product of their choice and have fun
while doing so.

Public Sustainability Beach Hut aims to be a

Contact: Hà Nguyen / hataovision@gmail.com / +447594954361
responsible beach activity that can sensitize
people, create long lasting behaviour, and
ultimately prevent more rubbish from entering
the Ocean. It’s a beach hut for everyone, at
every beach in the world, starting in Brighton.
What’s the Public Sustainability Beach Hut?

This hut is a space to store all the tools used

for activities on sustainability and on-the-spot
recycling. For instance, it can contain parts of
a plastic injection machine that could be easily
set up. Holidaymakers or anyone interested
are invited to bring their plastic bottles or food
packaging to the hut, and discuss how they
can make it into a new meaningful product.
Experience diagram

When rubbish is disposed at the beach, it is

usually never collected and left there for years
to degrade progressively under the sun or in
the Ocean and releasing toxic chemicals.
Instead of relying on specific organisations
or local authority, the project involves people
in the process of transforming waste at the
beach through creative activities.
Co-design workshop in Brighton

In order to design an experience that engages people, I took Brighton as a starting point
and interviewed stakeholders including a manager from Brighton’s CityClean. I organized
a open co-design workshop using mock-ups of the hut and a plastic injection machine
that I built using Precious Plastic’s open source blueprints. Participants were invited to
brainstorm and speak their thoughts on what kind of activities would they want for the
public hut.

Video: Co-design workshop in Brighton

https://youtu.be/JiIghsgeB7I
Co-bench

CO-bench or Collective Bench is one of

the ideas that came out of the co-design
workshop in Brighton. Participants
are invited to bring a plastic waste
that could be used with the injection
machine to create a building block for
this public bench. It would act as an
activity to do with friends, family, kids.
Aiming for people feel more involved
in the process, it also shows how our
waste pile up over time.

Please find details of the concept in the

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The experience is conceived in a way that the local council, locals, business and
the public can interact with each other on the theme of sustainable consumption
and waste management. The Public Sustainability Hut aims to be a responsible
beach activity that can sensitize people, create long lasting behaviour, and ultimately
prevent more rubbish from entering the Ocean. It’s a beach hut for everyone, at every
beach in the world, starting in Brighton.