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17-25 October 2026

The Global Souvenir Shop

A re-mining renaissance out of human and mineral extraction

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

This project is part of
What A Time To Be Alive
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Photo by Almicheal Fraay
Photo by Almicheal Fraay
Smartphone Destructor by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop approaches the re-mining of minerals not just as a method of reusing raw materials for economic or ecological gain, but as a tool to extract the social, geographic and cultural inscriptions that are alive in the production and processing of smartphones.
With the dominance of global brands and increasingly inaccessible technological components our experience of technology tends to be uniform: we buy a device that is identical to millions of others and then throw it away. Such an experience simplifies and
The Global Souvenir Shop  by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
Photo by Almicheal Fraay
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
Left by Almicheal Fraay - Right by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
Photo by Almicheal Fraay
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer
The Global Souvenir Shop by Noud Sleumer

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