Toxicity Distributed / Driving The Human Festival



10–2021
Toxicity Distributed explores future economies through a new array of green new deal transition jobs that deal with mining environmental liabilities. The project identifies the significant mining waste and residues in the Coquimbo region (Chile) at three different sites: a tailings dam, a eucalyptus plantation, and the future site of a desalination plant. Each of these sites, a current source of environmental conflict between local communities and the mine since the early 2000s

Exhibited from 15-17th of October 2021 at Radialsystem, Berlin Germany. One of the 21 selected projects by Driving the Human, an initiative led by – acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Forecast, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.


Project idea and exhibition concept

  • AHORA (Linda Schilling Cuellar and Claudio Astudillo Barra)
  • Subject Matter Experts
  • Bernardo González Ojeda (PhD in Biological Sciences. Full Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability.)
  • Ariel Muñoz Navarro (PhD Forest Sciences, Dendrochronology and Environmental Studies Laboratory at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso)
  • Victor Castelletto Puño (Marine Biologist, NGO Surgencia)
  • Karen Villanueva Mayne (Bioplastics Designer)
  • Sebastián Escobar Cruz (Civil Engineer)


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