Community Service

Make Tiles for Mosaic Mural

Program Schedule
16 Jun - 11 Aug 2022
HKUST campus
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Make Tiles for Mural Mosaic cover photo

Can you imagine that discarded plastics can be turned into artwork? Let’s participate in Precious Plastic to Art Project, the HKUST's 30th anniversary student-led project by giving a new life to used plastic. We need your energy to convert bottle caps into shreds and strength to inject mosaic tiles! Join us as a volunteer to burn some calories in our lab sessions this summer!

Date: 16, 21, 23, 28 & 30 Jun; 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26 Jul; 2 & 9 Aug (Tue & Thu)
Time: 10am-1pm or 3-6pm
Location: HKUST campus
*You can attend any sessions you are available.

mosaic wall design

Mission of this project: Collect unwanted plastic as raw art materials and co-create a mosaic wall on campus.

We need your support in the following areas:
(1) Wash and clean bottle caps collected from campus;
(2) Sort lids by colour and shred them into pieces; 
(3) Mould the shredded caps into hexagons; and/or
(4) Polish mosaic tiles for mosaic artwork design