The design site is located on Friesenheim Island between Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Numerous industries are clustered on and around the island due to its strategically significant location on the Rhine.

The design strategy envisions a site of resistance through reforesting historic woodland, habitat for the rare European Green Toad (a protest symbol and bioindicator), and pesticide-free agriculture.

As visitors and activists move through the site, the geometry of paths and ponds mirrors the geometry of the surrounding factories, and a series of spaces enable meeting, discussion and protest.

The forest transforms over the course of a century, from an initial grid formation into an established riparian forest, enabling flood mitigation and mycoremediation of the pesticide-contaminated soil.

A complex of shallow ponds supports the toad as a vulnerable symbol of resistance against the goliathan factories. A boardwalk allows visitors and researchers to observe and monitor toad populations.