Plastic Reimagined at SITE 2025, Goat Farm Arts Center
Date: 2025.09 – 2025.10
Location: The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants: Anuj Chhikara, Darby Fly, Sara Hill, Ash King, Brian Lachnicht, Nicholas Liubinskas, Kayla Rinoski, Tianxiang Sheng, Sarah Thrasher, Rachel Witherspoon, Taylor Jensen, Qin Wang, Kai Wang
Status: Completed
Type: Exhibition
Photographer: Andrew Thomas Lee
Plastic Reimagined was presented at SITE 2025 at the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta as part of the second annual, site-wide celebration of art, performance, and spatial experimentation. Installed across the 12-acre industrial campus during the one-night public event and extended exhibition period, the project introduced a series of proto-architectural artifacts developed from post-consumer plastics sourced through Georgia Tech’s campus waste streams. Positioned within an immersive field of performances, installations, and moving publics, the work operated as a temporary civic instrument—inviting reflection on material circulation, reuse, and architectural responsibility within a shared cultural landscape.
Rather than treating recycled plastic as a symbolic gesture of sustainability, Plastic Reimagined framed waste as an infrastructural condition and design method. The SITE presentation emphasized the project’s research-driven approach: material experimentation, fabrication workflows, and typological testing that foreground plastic as an anthro-material shaped by human systems of production and discard. In the context of SITE’s ephemeral yet collective environment, the work staged architecture not as a finished object, but as an ongoing inquiry into how materials, publics, and infrastructures intersect.
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Participants: Anuj Chhikara, Darby Fly, Sara Hill, Ash King, Brian Lachnicht, Nicholas Liubinskas, Kayla Rinoski, Tianxiang Sheng, Sarah Thrasher, Rachel Witherspoon, Taylor Jensen, Qin Wang, Kai Wang
Status: Completed
Type: Exhibition
Photographer: Andrew Thomas Lee
Plastic Reimagined was presented at SITE 2025 at the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta as part of the second annual, site-wide celebration of art, performance, and spatial experimentation. Installed across the 12-acre industrial campus during the one-night public event and extended exhibition period, the project introduced a series of proto-architectural artifacts developed from post-consumer plastics sourced through Georgia Tech’s campus waste streams. Positioned within an immersive field of performances, installations, and moving publics, the work operated as a temporary civic instrument—inviting reflection on material circulation, reuse, and architectural responsibility within a shared cultural landscape.
Rather than treating recycled plastic as a symbolic gesture of sustainability, Plastic Reimagined framed waste as an infrastructural condition and design method. The SITE presentation emphasized the project’s research-driven approach: material experimentation, fabrication workflows, and typological testing that foreground plastic as an anthro-material shaped by human systems of production and discard. In the context of SITE’s ephemeral yet collective environment, the work staged architecture not as a finished object, but as an ongoing inquiry into how materials, publics, and infrastructures intersect.
(Photos by Isadora Pennington)
