Academy of Fine Arts students participate in plasticLIFEcycle demo workshop

On June 3, 2025, anoth­er DEMO work­shop was held as part of the plas­ti­cLIFE­cy­cle project. This time, the par­tic­i­pants were stu­dents from the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, Katow­ice, who had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see first­hand how the PLC demo plant for sort­ing and pro­cess­ing plas­tics oper­ates.

The work­shop focused on mod­ern solu­tions in recy­cling and design. The stu­dents showed great inter­est in explor­ing the poten­tial of recy­cled plas­tics for artis­tic and func­tion­al appli­ca­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the con­text of 3D print­ing. Dis­cus­sions cov­ered strate­gies for design­ing with addi­tive tech­nolo­gies, as well as ways to com­bine aes­thet­ics with func­tion­al­i­ty and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty.

Dur­ing the meet­ing, par­tic­i­pants also learned about effec­tive mate­r­i­al prepa­ra­tion for recy­cling and how such stan­dards – known as the PLC stan­dard – can sup­port more informed and sus­tain­able design prac­tices.

The event demon­strat­ed that issues relat­ed to the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my are increas­ing­ly find­ing their place with­in art and design, open­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties for cre­ative and respon­si­ble explo­ration.