Moscow Design Museum’s Fantastic Plastic exhibition in Tobolsk extended until January 31, 2022

26 november 2021

The Moscow Design Museum has extended its Fantastic Plastic eco-design exhibition until January 31, 2022. The exhibition was organized with the support of SIBUR and hosted by Tobolsk’s Center for Creative Initiatives. The exhibition features works by more than 40 foreign and Russian designers and design studios including jewelry, items of clothing and footwear, and art installations made out of recycled and reused plastics. The exhibits have been provided by designers from the Netherlands, China, Germany, Kenya, Russia, and other countries. Admission to the exhibition is free of charge.

The ambition of the Fantastic Plastic exhibition is to use examples from the international and Russian experience to educate people about the opportunities that recycling and reuse of this material offer.

The exhibition features projects that have already been implemented and some experimental ideas for reusing recycled plastic. These projects, despite their diversity in scale, technique and function, have one thing in common: their authors treat recycled plastic as an ideal medium that is easy to work with and that offers unlimited opportunities for seeing one’s creative plans through to fruition.

As co-organizers of the Fantastic Plastic exhibition, we share with our partners the basic principles of socially responsible behavior of corporations and individuals alike. We hope that every visitor of the exhibition will be able to look at these items and at recycling of plastic from a different perspective and will remember that this material can be given a new lease of life and reused many times over, Elena Belskaya, Head of ZapSibNeftekhim’s Department for Government Relations and Social and Economic Projects, commented.

An important part of the exhibition is its educational program intended for museum practitioners. Its objective is to introduce the latter to the basics of constructing a museum showroom. The lecture part of the program covers a variety of theoretical aspects: from a foray into the history of designing a unified object-spatial environment all the way to the principles of selecting exhibits. The practical part of the mini course covers the basics of creating and promoting an exhibition project: developing the concept and texts, interacting with the workspace, visual and graphic support, engagements with partners and volunteers.

One can enroll in the program by request at info@moscowdesignmuseum.ru

A free online audio-guide and a brochure have been made available for the exhibition’s visitors.