Was is(s)t der Mensch? / Ein Haufen Müll
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BA Visual Communication Project
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2023
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This book is based on a two-sided self-experiment. For one week I took pictures of my food, analysed what I ate and calculated the costs while also collecting all the waste I produced with my eating habits.
The result this book that can be read from both sides: either it is called “Was is(s)t der Mensch?” (german wordplay meaning “What does a human eat” as well as the philosophical question “What is a human?”) or “Ein Hayden Müll” (“A pile of rubbish”).
In the two different parts of the book the reader can explore the results of my self-experiment and hopefully start to reflect on how to improve their own habits of spending money on food, wasting and throwing away.
