Recreational Club

Re-create-If

Program : Re-create-If

Date :Friday, 22nd July 2016

Venue :Teluk Kemang, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan

Purpose of program

            Recreational Club is about taking part in programmes as public service and recreational activities. This beach cleaning a public service activity that was organised under SOMAD KUL, hence, design terms was included in the programme building and progress. Groups were formed to allow the students for socialisation and cleaning works. The trashes were collected and assembled as a sculpture. This is due to the field of education which is designing. Designers solves problems, thus, such a method was an inspiring and challenging method in brainstorming to produce the outcome. The event was an opportunity for the students to break their restriction of mind in creative and critical thinking. This is critically for creativeness in eco and art.

How do you describe the eco art?

In opinion, eco art in a finding solution or development on ecological factors focussed in creative or innovative terms. Besides, it is an experience and study for understanding the relationship between the environment and art. This shows that eco can an inspiration of design in being creative and innovative. More to be added, eco art is a sense of human in approaching and gaining awareness on conserving and preserving or preventing uncontrolled littering habit. Moreover, in design perspective, this allows artists to understand and make use of environmental waste or recyclable things to reflect on sensitive issues around the world.

Why is it important to reduce, reuse, recycle and refuse?

The concept of reduce is that we should limit the number of purchases that we make in the first place. So, for example, we might limit our household to a single computer. The concept of reuse is what we should reuse items as much as possible before replacing them. For example, it generally makes more environmental sense to update our computer rather than get rid of it and buy a new one. However, if we do replace our computer, we should ensure that it, or its components, are reused. Many charitable organizations welcome donations of second-hand computers.

            The recycle concept is that we should ensure that items or their components are put to some new purpose as much as possible. The most common example for recycle is the use of newspapers for wrapping things in market, restaurants, houses, and many other use. There are organization that approaches in such a way of making use of waste that is made in daily living.

            Sometimes another R is added to the basic ones, generally standing for either "rethink" or "recover." Rethink is sometimes added to the front of the hierarchy, meaning that we should consider our options and think about their impact on the environment. Recover, which is the other R, refers to the practice of putting waste products to use. For example, decomposing garbage produces methane gas (one of the greenhouse gases), which some landfill sites recover and burn for energy rather than letting it dissipate.

            Refuse is an approach of thinking about things that we really need at a time. This is about avoiding things to be wasted with no use of the existence it. For an example, thinking twice during buying things is very important. If something is not really necessary, it shouldn’t be taken or used. This might end in wasting things. 

            Conclusively, the importance of these four (4) R is to avoid the impacts to be greater in all aspects such as economic, social connectivity and environmental extinction. The governmental and non-governmental efforts are countless, hence, not a solution that can solve the littering problem. Human act are one main reason of failure in accomplishing those objective of environment.

Have you ever experience involves in this kind of activities before?

Programs like public service and recreation intentional programs are many experienced by myself. This was a new experience in doing both recreation and services. During the primary education level, programs like ‘gotong-royong’ are the main activities that carried. That was an opportunity to get involved in activities with friends and teachers in school. Moving on to the secondary education institute, same activities are organised in a bigger and specified scope and motive. At the moment, a club called ‘Maths and Science Club’ had a park in the compound of the school. The club organised a program for cleaning and tidying the environment by cleaning the pond, relocating the pots and plants, and repainting works.

Do you feel the project was success?

In my opinion, this program was held successfully. The motive and objective are clearly seen as it involves bonding and social awareness in eco art. The project was about collecting trash around the beach in group, then creatively making something that could reflect something about beach. Other than that, people around witnessed us doing such an activity and created a feel of embarrassment and awareness. In future, programmes like this should be organised in a huge count so that many people realise the importance of cleanliness and the preservation of environment.

What do you each find most interesting/satisfying about working as part of this program?

Interesting facts about this program is about working in group and people from different part of Malaysia (other students) and with dissimilarities in culture and religion. Other than that, enjoying barefoot situations along the sea side was an enjoyment as a recreational matter. For the finalised task in this programme, we were required to make anything that reflects sea or the trashes collected. A mermaid were sculptured by the trashes collected and it was named ‘Trash Maid’.

What would you do differently in future?

In future, such a programme should be done in a bigger scope such as beach trash competition and with collaboration of major GOs and NGOs. This would involve more publicity of the event or programme. Recreational spots such as A’ Famosa in Melacca, Pedas Water Park in Melacca, public areas and recreational spots that is being a main place of attraction. Additionally, public would react if major activities are held in major public places.

Conclusion

Eco is one important element in the world. The environment supplies many goods for the human and it is a responsibility for us to maintain the beauty of earth and environment. Such an enthusiasm must be fostered since early childhood. Environmental awareness are the main thing that should be highlighted in most of institutes and schools. Pantai Teluk Kemang is a place with heritage and economic contributor as in social view, so it was a correct place for the programme held. In future, a bigger organisation should be formed to preserve and conserve the nature.