Tiffany Pattinson

Tiffany Pattinson – Designer – Hong-Kong

Le Conclave 2017

 

Born to a family of social workers, Tiffany wa raised with a mind to serve the world as
a social entrepreneur. Combining her passion for design, Tiffany Pattinson launched her namesake sustainable fashion & lifestyle label in Shanghai after participating as a nalist of the EcoChic Design Award in 2012.

The brand has strong focus on the preservation of culture and the environment, working with traditional craftsmen from tribes in China and adopting sustainable design and production techniques from the start to the afterlife of each product. In addition, the concept of multifunctional design is a common feature in her products in order to add longevity to the pieces.

Tiffany has been invited to present her designs around the globe, including Shanghai, Harbin, Brighton, New York, Brussels and Hong Kong promoting sustainable fashion design.

Thomas Ortiz

Thomas Ortiz – France

Le Conclave 2017

Thomas Ortiz’s work focus on the issues concerning energy, environment and human lifestyles. In 2012, he graduated from the Institut National Polytechnique following an Art and Science program. In 2014, he co-founded Matabase to develop the use of innovative and sustainable materials in creative communities. Since 2015, he is leading several actions with Atelier21, a think tank focusing on energy transition through social innovation.

In the same year, he worked as an independant researcher on the 2 year program Smart Grids Brain. This research explored the current development of energy and telecommunication networks through a citizen-oriented point of view.

He is the co-founder of Paléo-énergétique, a collaborative international research program investigating the past to exhumate forgotten innovations and patents in the public domain. In 2016, he developed RegenBox in collaboration with the designer Cédric Carles, the rst open-source alkaline regenerator based on a community.

He is also an active coordinator of SolarSoundSystem, an international network of sound systems powered by solar and human energy.

LES CONCLAVES OF ART OF CHANGE 21

Le Conclave of Art of Change 21 is an unprecedented event that brings together artists, social entrepreneurs and youth involved in the ecological transition and sustainable development.

Over a two-day period, the participants collectively imagine original actions that supports the environment. These actions are then implemented by the association Art of Change 21 in collaboration with its co-creators. 

Organized every three years by Art of Change 21, the goal of the Conclave is to relate art and sustainability and to generate new kinds of solutions.

 

LE CONCLAVE 2017

KEY FIGURES

  • 39 participants
  • 27 countries
  • 11 co-created actions

Sandrine Gintzburger

Sandrine Gintzburger, Sponsorship Officer

After graduating with a master’s degree from Essec and a career in print and digital magazine press groups (Lagardère, Marie Claire), Sandrine founded the Triptyc agency, specialising in art and business.

Passionate about contemporary and modern art, as you will have understood, she wants to help raise awareness of environmental issues through the power of art. In the light of the current health crisis, she has decided to become actively involved in the associative sector and so has joined Art of Change 21. She assists Art of Change 21 on matters concerning patronage, fundraising, and partnerships.

Between exhibitions, Sandrine tunes into podcasts about personal development from her elliptical.

The team

Fanny Legros

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fanny Legros 

President and founder of Karbone Prod and co-founder of Plinth

Fanny Legros has extensive experience in the contemporary art sector, including five years as director of the Galerie Poggi in Paris. It was while participating in international fairs and organizing numerous exhibitions that Fanny became aware that the art world had not yet begun its ecological transition and decided in 2020 to create Karbone Prod, an eco-design production and environmental impact calculation consulting agency, which assists companies and cultural institutions in their ecological transition. In 2021-2022, her agency carried out the first eco-design process for the Art Paris fair. 

In 2022, Fanny created Plinth with Carole Vigezzi, a company that offers a tool for the re-use of materials and scenographic equipment for the visual arts, winner of the PIA4 of the France 2030 plan in 2022.
Fanny Legros has been an expert member of our association in eco-conception since 2020, and is involved in the organization of eco-designed exhibitions (Biocenosis21), the Art Eco-Conception Prize and all projects relating to the reduction of the environmental impact of cultural activities. 

www.karboneprod.fr 

www.plinth.fr

 

Tristan Lecompte

Olafur Eliasson

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Olafur Elliasson, renowned Icelandic-Danish artist, believes that art has the power to transform society.

A native of Iceland and Denmark, Eliasson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts before opening his studio, Studio Olafur Eliasson, in Berlin in 1995. Since then, he has realized numerous exhibitions around the world, such as The weather project at the Tate Modern (2013), Contact at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2014), or most recently Olafur Eliasson Versailles at the Château de Versailles (2016).

His work — which includes sculptures, paintings, photography, films and installations — is not limited to the confines of a museum or gallery, it also takes place in public space, such as Green river (1998-2001), The New York City Waterfalls (2008), and Your rainbow panorama (2011).

The relationship between man and the environment has always been a recurring theme in his oeuvre, but in recent years it has taken on a decidedly activist tone. His current work triggers a greater sense of awareness, particularly about climate change.

For the COP21 in Paris in 2015, Olafur Eliasson exhibited Ice Watch, an ephemeral installation in the place du Panthéon that consisted of a dozen icebergs, 80 tons of ice, coming from Nuuk, Greenland. Displayed in a circle, like the dial of a clock, the volume of each block ice represented the equivalent of the ice that melts each one-hundredth of a second. The aim was to make climate change palpable, spurring a desire to act.

Olafur Eliasson is also a social entrepreneur. Together with engineer Frederik Ottesen, Eliasson founded « Little Sun, » an NGO that creates, sells and distributes solar-powered lamps to communities without access to electricity across the world.

 

Sources:

olafureliasson.net

http://icewatchparis.com

http://littlesun.com

Guillaume Robic

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Guillaume Robic, director of communication at “la Monnaie de Paris”, vice-president of Art of Change 21.

Guillaume Robic is a key player of the French cultural sector, specialized in communication and sponsorship. He has been the director of communication at la “Monnaie de Paris” since 2010. He was previously responsible of the sponsorship and partnerships department at the Centre Georges Pompidou, and also at the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais and Centre des monuments nationaux. He co-founded the association Coal Art & Sustainable development and was its vice-president from its creation in 2008 to September 2014.

Guillaume is also involved in a an organic farming family business in Brittany.

The steering committee

Karine Niego

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Founder and CEO of Green Raid, vice-president of Art of Change 21

Green Raid provides a collaborative platform named “Yes we green” for finding all the “local & green” deals in one’s neighbourhood, in the city of Nantes or Paris and many other cities in France and worldwide.

From thrift shops to bicycle repairers, from local manufacturers to communal gardens, from selective waste-disposal centers to “Relais” clothing recycling banks, Green Raid allows people to benefit from their neighbourhood and live their lives differently!

www.greenraid.fr

The steering committee

Jérôme Auriac

Jérôme Auriac, founder and CEO of Be-linked, founder of Societality.com

Specialized in sustainable development and business-NGOs partnerships, Jérôme Auriac is the founder of Be-linked, Business & Community Intelligence, a consultancy firm specialized in business and civil society organizations relationship. He is also the co-founder of Societality.com, a global collaborative platform, promoting and facilitating societal actions.

Jérôme teaches in business schools (at HEC: MS Sustainable Development, Business & Poverty Social Business Chair; at ESSEC : General management for Social Economy), business associations on the themes of CSR, NGO networks, as well as in educational institutions or foreign research institutes (such as the Natural Capital Institute or the Getulio Vargas Foundation).

President of a development NGO working in Brazil and fluent in Portuguese, he is also a board member of Foundations, NGOs and specialized think tanks.

www.belinked.net
www.societality.com 

The steering committee