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TRANSFORM PLASTICS,  REFOREST IMAGINATIONS.



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plastic forest workshops

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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.



Tree animation by Max Scheidl.



current events



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 Florestania 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.


See our workshop schedule at ESEL.AT







past events




Our project officially launched on 15 June! We hosted a participatory performance by multidisciplinary artist Karin Cheng, who led us through a series of somatic exercises inspired by the four seasons of nature. We also unveiled our very first plastic prototype of the Moringa Tree. Participants received our Florestania tote bags to collect their plastic waste for upcoming workshops with Fantoplast and Precious Plastic Vienna. A huge thank you to our partners and everyone who attended! 

Unser Projekt wurde offiziell am 15. Juni gestartet! Wir veranstalteten eine partizipative Performance der multidisziplinären Künstlerin Karin Cheng, die uns durch eine Reihe somatischer Übungen führte – inspiriert von den vier Jahreszeiten der Natur. Außerdem enthüllten wir unseren allerersten Plastikprototypen des Moringa-Baums. Die Teilnehmenden erhielten außerdem unsere Florestania-Stofftaschen, um darin ihren Plastikmüll für kommende Workshops mit Fantoplast und Precious Plastic Vienna zu sammeln. Ein riesiges Dankeschön an unsere Partner*innen und alle, die dabei waren!




Photos by Frankie Breakfast, 2025.

about 


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
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