In the mid-1980s, Romuald Hazoume began an extended series of works made from discarded plastic containers, and in particular from gasoline canisters. After slight modi cations, these objects became masks, which subtly reveal Hazoume’s critical vision of political systems. He has said of his work: I send back to the West that which belongs to them, that is to say, the refusal of consumer society that invades us every day.

His work has been widely shown in many of the major galleries and museums in Europe and beyond, including the British Museum, the Guggenheim, Bilbao, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, ICP, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Hazoume has participated in the Biennale de Lyon and Gwangju Biennale (both 2000), as well as the 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009). He was awarded the Arnold Bode-Prize for his participation in Documenta 12 (2007).

Edda is the co-founder of Australia’s largest sustainable fashion runway show, Undress Runways. Held across different Australian cities, the event showcases sustainable, ethical and forward-thinking fashion designers from around the world. For over six years she has built a movement in the fashion industry that introduces the public to a world that respects garment makers and cares for the planet.

Edda is also the editor of The Naked Mag, advocating for diversity, respect, equality, sustainability and smart textiles in the fashion industry, and empowers its readership to make informed and socially conscious decisions when making purchases.

Today, Edda is the CEO of a startup called UNDRESS; an online peer-to-peer platform where people can rent out their quality clothes. It’s the share economy for fashion. She wants
to use this platform to help people have a healthier, more sustainable relationship with fashion.

In September 2016, Edda was named a UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals. She was also recently awarded QLD Young Achiever of the Year 2017.

Entrepreneur and designer, Soukeina Hachem is recognized as one the most creative young people in Morocco. Placing cultural development, ecology and awareness through art at the heart of her concerns, Soukeina is involved in the transformation of her country towards sustainable development through creation.

After studies in design, she embarked on the great adventure of entrepreneurship in 2012 by founding Shape, a strategic consultancy in global design that promotes a holistic and social approach.

In 2014, she initiated Houna (‘‘here’’ in Arabic), a collaborative platform and cultural & artistic incubator that accompanies young artists and designers in the production and media coverage of their projects. Houna includes the Kouzina program, a Label and FabLab dedicated to creation and prototyping. At the COP22 in Marrakech, Houna organized a prototyping hackathon where designers, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers gathered around eco-committed projects with a strong social impact.

Also an artist, Soukeina has produced videos performances, VJing installations as well as a multi-awarded short- lm.

Ibrahim Mahama uses the transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity, migration, globalisation and economic exchange. Often made in collaboration, his large- scale installations employ materials gathered from urban environments such as remnants of wood and textiles or jute sacks, which are sewn together and draped over architectural structures.

Ibrahim’s interest in material, process and audience has led him to focus on jute sacks
in particular since they are synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana. Fabricated in Southeast Asia, the sacks are imported by the Ghana Cocoa Boards to transport cocoa beans but end up as multi-functional objects, used for both the transportation of food and commodities and for many daily chores around the home.

His work has appeared in international exhibitions including Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017), The Gown Must Go To Town, Accra, ‘All the World’s Futures’, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015); ‘Artist’s Rooms’, K21, Dusseldorf (2015); ‘Material Effects’, The Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2015); ‘An Age of Our Own Making’, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen and Holbæk city (2016); and ‘Fracture’, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel (2016) and Orderly Disorderly, Accra.

Archana Prasad, is an artist from Bangalore, India. Her work is a particular conjunction of visual art, technology and urban community art, steeped in design and research methodologies.

Archana has been actively engaged with community art practices for the last decade. She is the Founder-Director of Jaaga, a community based urban art, tech and activism project. Starting as early as 2004 with ‘‘Standing On Fish’’ a small project that engages the public with street art to in the context of the Bangalore City Project, a project that aims to explore ways by which people can connect with the city through cultural practices.

Apart from her formal studio work in drawing, animation and painting, she explores the world of art through multiple lenses. Previously, she has collaborated with Bangalore’s early experimental bands –Lounge Piranha and Bobbleheads- as lights and video performance artist. She has performed at more than 50 events and has toured across several Indian cities with these bands. Additionally she initiated an experimental docu-performative sound and video public intervention project – CitySignals.

Vincent JF Huang is an eco-artist and activist who combines art practice with environmental issues, aiming to raise awareness on climate change while simultaneously inviting the public to rethink modern civilization and sustainability.

Huang has focused his art and activism on a single question: “When extreme weather rages around the world, how can art take a stand, and furthermore, play a role in social reform?” Huang creates art that act as a catalyst capable of turning the experience of global warming into personal and public action, all the whilst creating transcendent aesthetic events that awaken passion for global ecology.

Starting in 2010, Vincent has been working with Tuvalu, a small island nation in South Paci c that is facing the risk of becoming uninhabitable due to rising sea levels. Vincent has represented Tuvalu as an of cial delegate at the UNFCCC since 2012. Vincent represented the Tuvalu Pavilion at the 55th & 56th la Biennale di Venezia.

In 2013, in acknowledgment of his sustained art activism in support of global environmental issues, he was awarded the Presidential Cultural Award in Taiwan.

Together, they started an online petition to allow farmers to conserve their traditional seeds. It was through the film ”Des Clics De Conscience” that the directors were able to show that citizens do have the power to change the law. With the film in cinemas now across France, they now meet with audience members to mobilize people on creating a lobby of citizens for the common good.