TRANSFORM PLASTICS, REFOREST IMAGINATIONS.
plastic collection ︎ workshops ︎ collective learning
and creation ︎ exhibition ︎ fundraising for forest care
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our mission
FLORESTANIA IM DRITTEN is a community art and environmental project taking place in Vienna’s new neighborhood, VILLAGE IM DRITTEN. The project invites people of all ages to take part in public workshops where plastic waste will be transformed into an immersive forest installation.
The word Florestania combines the Portuguese words for "forest" (floresta) and "belonging" or "citizenship" (cidadania). It was coined by Amazonian Indigenous activist Ailton Krenak in his book Ancestral Future, which calls on us to reforest the imagination as a path toward healing and protecting the Earth.
Workshops led by Fantoplast and Precious Plastic Vienna, alongside guest sessions on urban foraging, ancestral herbalism, and restorative ecology, offer space to reflect on our relationship with waste and urbanization, and reconnect with our inner landscapes.
Once completed, the plastic forest installation will be sold to raise funds for forest care initiatives, locally and globally, transforming urban waste into new alliances with the land.
FLORESTANIA IM DRITTEN is a project conceptualized by Mary Maggic (Artist & Project Lead), in collaboration with Max Scheidl (Workshop Facilitation & Conceptional Consultation from Fantoplast & Precious Plastic Vienna), Leon Thomas (Head of Material Sourcing), and Sofia Zorzi (Head of Design & Communication). You can reach us at transformplastic@florestania.at
Tree animation by Max Scheidl.
ABOUT
Get to know our project and partners, see our first plastic tree prototype, and participate in a collective performance with Karin Cheng. Offering music, food drinks, and free tote bags for plastic collection!
Lernt unser Projekt und unsere Partner kennen, seht unseren ersten Plastikbaum-Prototyp und nehmt an einer gemeinsamen Choreografie mit Karin Cheng teil. Wir bieten Musik, Essen, Getränke und kostenlose Tragetaschen für die Plastiksammlung!
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Landstraßer Gürtel & Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse
Get to know our project and partners, see our first plastic tree prototype, and participate in a collective performance with Karin Cheng. Offering music, food drinks, and free tote bags for plastic collection!
Lernt unser Projekt und unsere Partner kennen, seht unseren ersten Plastikbaum-Prototyp und nehmt an einer gemeinsamen Choreografie mit Karin Cheng teil. Wir bieten Musik, Essen, Getränke und kostenlose Tragetaschen für die Plastiksammlung!
Landstraßer Gürtel & Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse plastic forest workshops
EVERY SATURDAY 13:00-17:00
FROM 5 JULY to 6 SEPT
DOCKS, VILLAGE IM DRITTEN
Landstraßer Gürtel 51
1030 Wien
ABOUT
Join the collective process of transforming plastic waste into an immersive forest. Facilitated by members of Fantoplast and Precious Plastic Vienna, this workshop series will show participants various techniques like hand-shredding, injection molding and heat-sculpting. Bring your tote bag of plastic waste so we can identify the plastic species around us.
Machen Sie mit beim gemeinsamen Prozess, Plastikmüll in einen immersiven Wald zu verwandeln. Diese Workshop-Reihe wird von Mitgliedern von Fantoplast und Precious Plastic Vienna moderiert und zeigt den Teilnehmern verschiedene Techniken wie Handzerkleinerung, Spritzguss und Wärmeformung. Bringen Sie Ihre Plastikmüll-Tragetasche mit, damit wir die Plastikarten in unserer Umgebung identifizieren können.
A PROJECT BY
IN COOPERATION WITH
OUR PARTNERS
