Stand4Upcycling
History and today’s organisation.
The store opened with VC support in November 2018. Maggie (Sanjana) and Marc (Dana) raised grants (Bajaj, 50th Anniversary) to make this project happen. It is also closely connected to the Re-Centre.
We collectively run the shop from Tuesdays to Sundays. We share with Visitors about ecology, waste management green practice in Auroville as well as all around the world directly at the shop in Visitor Center. Activities include organizing and promoting Upcycling workshops and projects, promote products and shop.
Vision and Missions
The idea is to gather a collective of Upcyclers, project and individuals and through the sale of our products, promote up-cycling, waste sorting, management and education, conscious buying, green practices. Much more than a shop generating income, we see this place as a platform to raise the awareness around sustainable & ecological practices. Our daily experience in the shop is about speaking about wasteless, Re-center, eco-service, zero waste and others, educate about all the local and global green practices from baby step to big scale.
Leaders & Team
We are a collective of Aurovillians. B promotes Zero Waste. Celine coordinates the shop and upcycle Fabrics and any other item that ends up in her workshop. Crystal upcycle Jeans mainly into bags Devi runs SAKHI (Learning Education Center) and provides activity to women from surrounding villages through stitching (upcycled) fabrics Startupcycling (Marc, Anne, Isabelle upcycle tetrapak into furnitures but also plastic container, ceramic, natural products and others junks into various items. OkStudio (Abhipsa, Véronèse +volunteers) upcycle any kind of material into a high quality piece of art, bag, jewellery and others. Walter upcycles wood. Zeevic is part of Wellpaper and does art on papers items and incredible jewellery. Youth Center (Killi and Ganga) upcycle wood.
Opportunities at Stand4Upcycling
Open and run the shop (cash, digital payment, daily cleaning, keep the shop nice and tidy and make sure all items are visible and well arranged), talk with visitors about the upcycled products in the shop and through it about green practices and green activities happening in Auroville.
According to the volunteers could also be running upcycling workshop, posting on social media, creating posters and booklet.