Welcome to I-con, 1st Intercontinental Container Artwork Exhibition
The ISO container was one particular of the vital improvements in 20th century logistics. It enabled productive and less costly containment and distribution of products and solutions by land, sea and the sky for the world-wide mass usage. Practically just about every made item human beings take in spends some time in a container. 18 million complete containers make in excess of 200 million visits per calendar year all over the planet. Some ten,000 containers are lost at sea each calendar year.
Possessing its origins in the late 1780s, containers have been beside shipping utilized as structural element for endless uses. They variety from Africa, military schooling facility, educational facilities, houses, outlets, abstract art, labs, clinics, studios, details centres to clandestine cannabis gardens.
The Box, a BBC venture is following a container all over the planet for a calendar year to convey to stories of globalisation and the planet overall economy.
In this article at I-con we want you to follow the containers telling the story of their quest for a way to positively transform the lives of all with only one particular container, so the many others can be set free.
Posted by Lightmash on 2009-01-09 twenty:fifty eight:fifty
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