Scott Webel

Scott Webel is project coordinator at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder and co-curator of Austin’s Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata (www.mnae.org). His ethnographic research concerns creative reuse of urban waste at various scales, including DIY art environments, informal waste infrastructures, compost heaps, and wastewater ponds. His work addresses overlaps and antagonisms between ecological systems, formal economies, and informal economies in times of ecological crisis and economic precarity.