Robotics workshop for children at the Alternative Atelier / Driant Zeneli in collaboration with Bonevet.

Storytelling meets science in Driant Zeneli’s Alternative Atelier, a 100-day laboratory for children and their families. Participants are invited to take part in weekly workshops with the artist and robotics specialists from Bonevet Prishtina, a non-profit makerspace for youngsters.

Why? To create a new story about old plastic, seeing as it is here to stay. Much like Zeneli’s film trilogy The Animals. Once upon a time … in the present time, also on show in the space, the story is conceived as a contemporary fable. This time its protagonist is an ostrich.

Known for its inability to fly, the bird nevertheless longs for a way up and out of its predicament. The predicament’s name is plastic: the billions of bottles and bags smothering the streets, choking the rivers and speaking to the plants and animals in a language they cannot – and do not want to – understand.

Eager to change the story, the ostrich is looking for creative allies. The first step is to define the second animal in the story. The rest unfolds from there.