On December 3, Daniels alumni Alejandro Lopez Hernandez (Masters of Architecture, 2011) presented his thesis project Waste2No at CulturalDigital.BR Festival in Brazil.

The Waste2No Project is an ongoing project that explores how The Internet of Things (IoT) can be integrated into urban and domestic environments in ways that enhance sustainability and agency. The current iteration of this project consists of a concept for a website, the “Stuff Cloud,” that allows people to track things they would like to share, resell or swap with others within their urban vicinity. Secondly, it is a design speculation exploring of how an interactive urban infrastructure could alter the urban environment and the culture of shopping and disposing in cities. The CulturaDigital.Br Festival is a space for the gathering of agents of digital culture from Brazil and all over the world — producers and activists who operate in the intersection between culture, politics, technology.

Hernandez's website Stuff Cloud also recently received an Honorable Mention in the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest "City Sense: Shaping our environment with real-time data," an international competition organized by The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP.