Rigoletto, a plastic whale is a 1:1 scale reproduction of an 8-meter blue whale calf made entirely from plastic bottles by the third-year students. A work denouncing the waste and excessive use of single-use plastic, created following the viewing of the documentary film in its original language “A Plastic Ocean,” part of a civic education project that we documented this year on our blog: A plastic ocean: be the change
The whale, beached for months in our school garden, has become the symbol of denunciation of the dramatic pollution conditions affecting our seas and oceans and has attracted the attention of many people, including the media.
The MB News team contacted us, intrigued by this provocative installation, the result of a wonderful civic education and awareness project, and came to visit us to see Rigoletto up close.
The result of this visit was a wonderful article published on the MB News website, which you can read in its entirety at this link:
The blue whale calf will now make its journey: “we would really love for Rigoletto to become a permanent work of our school, also because it has now become the mascot of our students and also of the kindergarten children who pass by here, as well as the parents – says Professor Chiara Consonni, who together with Professor Claudia Berti led the project – but it is right that it makes its way toward recycling, it is our Whale of Change.”
