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space.” These questions are              isn’t a specific way in which we are
                                                     important for Sibu in view of her        able to manage our waste. If you

                                                     desire “to make some real change         actually had to walk into Res, you’d
                                                     around the campus area where I           be disgusted at the sight of just a

                                                     live and where I engage with             trail of rubbish that usually inhabits
                                                     students.” Her idea is to use the        our passages. … It’s a very crazy and

                                                     graphic design platform to create        contentious space to be in –
                                                     awareness, and “make people a            currently being bombarded by all of

                                                     little bit uncomfortable here and        these things that you know are
                                                     there.” She remarks: “It is important    wrong.” Sibu interviewed the
                                                     to … go beyond a piece of paper          chairperson of the Green Campus

                                                     that says ‘save water.’ I have driven    Initiative, but was disappointed in
                                                     past those ‘save water’ posters for      the conventionality of the strategies

                                                     basically most of my life and it has     proposed for greening the campus.

                                                     never really connected to me in any      She argued that no-plastic and no
                                                     particular way.” Now, however, she       waste campus campaigns are
                                                     notes: “When going back into             useful, but instead of merely

                                                     spaces such as Res, I notice leaking     throwing a problem out there, one

                                                     taps all the time. I think, in terms of   needs to offer alternatives. What
                                                     maintenance, we have a lot of            she learned from the pilgrimage
                                                     piping issues. We also have a lot of     was the power of an approach that

                                                     plastic bottle usage … and there         engages people experientially.




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