Sustainable Geometry was created by Aphra Shemza in collaboration with students from Shenley Brook End school and commissioned by the Milton Keynes Islamic Arts and culture charity. The project combines the artist’s knowledge of sustainable design and the practice of co-creation to create a dynamic and interactive light artwork. Over the course of two days, students took part in plastic recycling workshops and learned how to turn recycled plastic waste into sheet material and each created one of the tiles that make up the Islamic rosette of the sculpture.

The sculpture is sound-reactive and uses a microphone to collect sound data and converts the data into a light animation. The work responds to the sound that a viewer creates and also reacts to live or recorded music, changing over time and creating a dynamic effect. Sustainable Geometry asks the viewer to contemplate their relationship to the artwork, the world around them and our responsibility to look after it.

The film explores Aphra's artistic practice.