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Fantastic Plastic

Significant statistics
>9 000
visitors
>26
educational events
>2 500
participants in the educational program
Fantastic Plastic is both an exhibition and an educational project being implemented by the Moscow Design Museum in its drive to encourage recycling and reuse of plastics. SIBUR has been the project’s partner since 2019. The project has won 2021 Glamour Eco Awards and 2021 Moscow Urban Forum Community Awards.

The concept

The project includes a traveling exhibition of artworks and photographs made of recycled plastics by Russian and foreign designers, plus lectures, theme tours, master classes, and roundtables.The exhibition features artwork by over 40 foreign and Russian designers and design studios ranging from items of jewelry, clothing and footwear to art installations made out of recycled and reclaimed plastic. 

In 2019, such events were held in Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Perm, Ufa, Tomsk, and Moscow. A new collection of exhibits was opened in Moscow in the fall of 2020, followed by the project’s launch, in 2021, in the city of Tobolsk. The exhibition’s 2022 edition was hosted by Tomsk and Omsk.

Educational program

2019 saw about 1,000 people take part in the project’s educational program. The attendees were mostly interested in the master classes and lectures given by foreign and Russian designers. Perm hosted a round table on Design and Ecology featuring representatives of SIBUR, local authorities, environmentalists, and staff of the Moscow Museum of Design.

2021 saw Tobolsk host an educational program for museum professionals that included both a theoretical part consisting of an overview of the history of designing cohesive object-spatial environments and an outline of principles behind selecting display exhibits, and a hands-on session that included such topics as development of concepts and texts, working with space, visual and graphic design, interactions with partners, and recruitment of volunteers.

The project's educational sessions in 2022 were attended by more than 1,700 people. Lectures and excursions were open both to ordinary residents of Tomsk and Omsk, and to professional audiences. The program in Omsk featured an additional master class for children and a film screening session.