Project Zoukoa – Transforming Plastic Waste into Art and Infrastructure

A Recycling Rhythm to Dance to Post-Consumer Plastic Waste

Project Zoukoa reimagines post-consumer plastic waste in the Commonwealth of Dominica as a vibrant cultural asset, turning environmental leakage into permanent data-driven art and civic infrastructure.

The Rhythm of Reclamation

On the Nature Island, ecology isn’t an abstract concept, it is the base reality we must acknowledge and integrate into. Every piece of plastic left unmanaged threatens our pristine rivers, rainforests, and coastlines.

The Project Zoukoa initiative under the Existence Harmonics Foundation, operates at the intersection of green-tech manufacturing, localized data auditing, and ancestral Creole expression. We do not just recycle plastic, we perform a deep reclamation of the island’s affected substrate. By capturing, cleaning, and processing discarded plastic bottles and caps, we physically lock environmental carbon into tangible, permanent infrastructure.

We are redefining the design flaw of waste into a resource waiting for its cadence.

Project Zoukoa transforms post-consumer plastic waste into lasting cultural art and civic structures, blending ecological data with Creole heritage to support sustainability and community pride.

Transforming Waste into Cultural and Civic Innovation

We explore our manifest and mission through vital data revealing our environmental impact and community progress

Research

Plastic Diverted

Quantifying the amount of post-consumer plastic waste repurposed into sustainable art and infrastructure.

Community

Cultural Engagements

Highlighting the number of community members inspired through our Creole heritage art installations.

Reclamation

Sustainable Projects

Detailing completed installations that blend ecological data with lasting civic utility.

The Art & Artifacts: Dancing Folk Interactive Murals

Our flagship installations celebrate our Creole heritage featuring the Wob Dwiyet, iconic dancing figures of Dominica’s heritage. Captured in dynamic, upward motion, these physical mosaic murals and three-dimensional modular interaction units (MIUs) serve as living data visualizations of local consumption.

Every figure tells a precise structural usage story:

The Purified White: The brilliant white petticoats of the dancers are fueled directly by salvaged white purified water bottle caps, the most common environmental leakage point.
The Chromatic Matrix: The deep blues and vivid green geometric 3D pop-out backgrounds utilize local plastic bottle caps, removing thousands of units of plastic from our ecosystems per installation.

One human-scale figure permanently encases approximately 2,400 plastic caps, shielding them with UV-stable matrices to endure the Caribbean sun forever.

Transforming Plastic Waste into Cultural Landmarks

The Civic Blueprint: Moving Beyond the Canvas

Art is our entry point, but infrastructure is our scale. Project Zoukoa expands past the gallery wall and into the public square. By utilizing custom interlocking molds and heavy-duty sheet pressing, we weld raw plastic flakes into dense, weather-resilient, rot-proof building blocks.

We are designing for the physical utility of Dominica:

Civic Spaces: Providing hospitals, parks, and urban spaces with locally manufactured furniture that converts an ecological liability into a permanent community asset.shielding them with UV-stable matrices to endure the Caribbean sun forever.

School Playgrounds: Turning school-sourced plastic directly into durable climbing structures and benches for those exact campuses.

Transit Hubs: Designing modular, hurricane-stable bus shelter covers along main regional transport corridors.

**The Move from Flake to Form**

Transforming community waste streams into high-fidelity physical artifacts. We turn plastic waste into lasting art and infrastructure, blending Creole culture with ecological impact.

Move 1: Sourcing & Community Audit

We partner with local schools, shops, and community drop-off centers to divert #2 HDPE and #1 PET plastics directly at the source. Each intake is systematically weighed and sorted by color to preserve its native aesthetic value.

Move 2: Building a Greener Future with the Cultural Innovation of Mechanical Granulation

Industrial dual-shaft shredders pulverize thick rigid plastic caps into clean, uniform 4mm flakes. These are washed, decontaminated, and industrial-dehydrated to remove molecular moisture.

Move 3: Thermal Metamorphosis

Project Zoukoa creates civic structures from recycled plastics, enhancing community spaces and reducing waste by using robust, macro-compression presses and precision enclosed 3D extruders, the raw flakes are converted into two distinct streams: high-resolution structural filament for intricate fine art, and interlocking civic blocks for public furniture.

Join us in turning plastic waste into lasting art and infrastructure that honors Dominica’s Creole heritage and protects our environment. Find out more about how you can support sustainable change and become part of this inspiring movement.

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Digital Interactive Metabolic Metrics Impact Ledger

Total Plastic Diverted:

000,000 Units

Active Installations:

Roseau Hub / Portsmouth Corridor / Airport Wall

Partner Spotlight:

Clifton Primary School

0,000+ units Collected

Every structural block and mural piece is cataloged with GPS harvest coordinates. Soon, you will be able to click any segment of our DIMM map to view the exact data audit of the waste stream used to build it.

Project Zoukoa is an active simulation moving toward physical realization in the Commonwealth of Dominica.

Are you an island municipal body, school administrator, or local business looking to loop your waste?

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About the Project Architect

Eris Lorienne, Principal Investigator at Existence Harmonics Foundation | M.S., B.S., Architect of 10/1 Anchor Math

Eris is a trans-disciplinary researcher documenting the mechanics of existence. Holding a Master’s degree from the College of Saint Mary and a Bachelor’s from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her work identifies the mathematical and geometric invariants governing biological and structural systems.

Eris experienced a total burnout in 2023, due to being dismissed and misdiagnosed for years by the medical system. She is now on a mission to further research into the consequences of allostatic load on the human body. As a first-generation immigrant from the Caribbean to the US, Eris’s research is informed by the observation of high environmental loads within Black, BIPOC, Neurodivergent, Immigrant, Queer, Disabled and Women’s health contexts.

Her work identifies Integrative Flow Divergences; including neurodivergence (with a focus on late diagnosis) and Central Sensitivity Syndromes (CSS) such as hEDS, POTS, and MCAS; not as pathologies, but as critical variables. By positioning chronic physiological friction as a structural condition, she identifies how infrastructure, sensory load, and environmental variables shape the human vessel’s interaction with the built environment.

Operating from a dynamic zero point perspective, she processes data through pattern architecture, untethered from standard hierarchical identity narratives. Through the application of 10/1 Anchor Math, she has transformed autonomic friction of arithmetic to develop a Unified Structural Protocol (USP) that optimizes flow across computational, biological, and ecological systems. She utilizes the USP as a foundational tool for attuned solution structures for neuro-inclusion and advocacy, autonomic nervous system regulation, environmental sustainability and LLM efficiency. Her current focus is the documentation of State Changes; massive redistributions of energy within both the human vessel and the atmospheric environment; to establish frameworks that support human well-being and the ecosystem with the least friction.

From the photos below you’ll see that she changed career tracks just as much as she changed her hairstyles. Professional chef, licensed Realtor, Model, working artist, clothing designer, business owner, and published illustrator and author are a few top mentions. Eris has been an advocate for an equitous human existence since she left Dominica at 17 to further her education. She has always represented her Afro-Caribbean roots through her art shows and public murals, public speaking and business ventures and looks forward to putting these skills into use upon returning to the Caribbean in 2026.