The Art of Reuse: Rethinking our Waste through Creativity | Lin-hsiu Huang | TEDxOgden

Having reuse, reduce, and recycle engraved in my mind as a child, growing up in Taiwan, I have always been a firm believer of seeing waste stream materials as viable raw material. Salt Lake Valley is a fast-growing community with a very young population, with opportunity and need for reshaping how we think about waste. Lin-hsiu Huang was born and raised in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. She is a multidisciplinary designer & intersectional activist and served as the student commencement speaker at Morehead State University's 2018 Fall Commencement. She has presented her advocacy research and productions in over a dozen conferences (e.g. Poster on the Hill, the Appalachian Studies Conference, the Southern Honors Council Regional Conference). Currently, Huang is the Program Coordinator at Clever Octopus – a creative reuse center in Murray, Utah – and an AmeriCorps VISTA member. She enjoys bringing studio art elements into her design work, and she designs with sustainability, purpose, and empathy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx