Dec 12, 2025
WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND
impact & significance
upcycling is the art and science of repurposing, remaking, rethinking, reimagining. Of using old things in new ways. The shipping container is the thing that has captured our imagination for over a quarter-century: we have remade containers into homes, schools, galleries, libraries, and more. With hundreds of millions of obsolete and unused containers around the world, this is a new and necessary architecture to repair and regenerate the unnatural environment that we inherited. WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND is a feature-length documentary of our vision, and of the soulful lifelong partnership of the people, designers Ada and Giuseppe, behind it