Turning Can Collectors Into Designers, One Melted Beer Can At A Time

As a supplement to recycling, Studio Swine has created a mobile foundry that makes art of aluminum cans.

Discarded aluminum cans can be an urban blight. But designers at Studio Swine want to turn them into something else: an integral part of a city's character. To transform such a major segment of trash in São Paulo, the Studio Swine team, splitting their time between their London base and Brazil's largest city, created Can City, a mobile foundry that roams the streets, melting aluminum cans down into stools.

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