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Discover how art can promote environmental awareness and inspire change toward a more sustainable future.
Thu, March 16, 2023 UTC-04:00
09:00 – 11:00
Online Session
100
Free
About crQlr Summit
The crQlr Summit is being co-hosted by FabCafe Global in Japan, Toulouse and Mexico City.
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The implementation of circular designs and systems is an essential component in advancing the circular economy. However, art presents a unique approach by offering unconventional perspectives that challenge conventional norms, as it can provide new channels for expressing scientific concepts, biological processes and more in a beautiful and inspiring expression through the artist’s lens.
Art holds the power to create change in society by delivering important information and perspectives in emotionally impactful ways. By shaping perception and influencing public opinion, art can inspire a mindset change to make more sustainable choices and constribute to a healthier relationship between humankind and the environment.
The crQlr Awards 2022 brought together an international panel of Judges who selected 31 projects that demonstrate powerful interventions for the realization of a circular economy. Winning projects included several art installations and projects that approach sustainability issues with sensibility and imagination.
At the crQlr Summit MEXICO CITY, we will look at how these multidisciplinary projects push forward the circular economy through unique intersections of research, design and artistic expression. Join online to meet the leaders of each project and attend an open feedback session between the winners and the crQlr judges.
FabCafe Mexico City is located inside the Membrana Lab, which experiments and spreads biotechnology, XR, and other technologies. FabCafe Mexico City and Membrana Lab are run by curator and artist Tania Aedo and Biomedia artist and glass artisan Federico Hemmer.
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AirBubble
The world’s first biotechnological playground integrating air-purifying micro-algae cultures
Designed by London-based architecture and innovation firm ecoLogicStudio, AirBubble creates a purified microclimate for children to play in, a true bubble of clean air in the centre of Warsaw (Poland). It incorporates a cylindrical timber structure wrapped in an ETFE membrane protecting 52 glass algae reactors. This creates a real urban algae greenhouse.
We all acknowledge that we are only part of an interconnected web of life, and that all of our actions have consequences. Try to leave a trace, a positive trace. While you are playing in the AirBubble, you are regenerating the environment. That’s a win-win for nature and for people, that’s what we need to accomplish in the coming years. Bring people and nature closer to each other so we become connected again.
“Bio Design Prize”, awarded by Mitchell van Dooijeweerd, DGTL Festival/Revolution Foundation.
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Another Moon
A large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon in the sky
As the original moon is visible as a reflection of sunlight in the sky, this second moon is created by a cross-temporal reflection of sunlight gathered during the day, projected back into the sky at night. The moon appears overhead where laser beams tightly superimpose to create a three-dimensional form that can be viewed up to 1km away. It was developed over a 6 year period by the artist duo Kimchi and Chips.
Culture and art installation needs to be in symbiosis with societal issues, energy consumption as a limited resource is a good way to materialize the ephemeral aspect of energy.
“Digital Art prize”, comment by Jérémie Bellot, Architect/Digital artist and founder of AV Extended/Owner and Creative Director of Château de Beaugency.
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Aquaterrestrial Recolonization
A joint effort to proactively respond to rising climate change concerns
Throughout history, human civilisation has been ignorant and often motivated only by profit and exploitation. Aquaterrestrial Recolonization records the current state of dead coral reefs in the Bahamas archipelago and uses AI technology to visualize a recolonized ocean floor. The project is described as a “calculated imaging, a way of returning to the planet parts mankind has destroyed”.
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Jérémie Bellot
Architect / Digital artist and founder of AV Extended / Owner and Creative Director of Château de Beaugency
Jérémie Bellot is a french Architect and digital artist, co-founder of the SAS AV Extended in 2014, specializing in architectural projection mapping and light installations, Jérémie Bellot is the artistic director of the company and works with Anne Sophie Acomat within Studio DAAO on the development of micro-architecture and furniture design. In 2016, he opened the second FabCafe in France, FabCafe Strasbourg. Since 2018, he has created scenography and projection mapping content for Monumental Tour with his friend Michael Canitrot. In 2019, he founded the “Ateliers Eclairés”, Makerspace in Strasbourg and is president of the association; the same year, he became curator for the festival Constellations in Metz. In 2020, he co-founded the project “Château de Beaugency, Digital Art Center” and continues to ensure its programming and artistic direction.
Jérémie Bellot is a french Architect and digital artist, co-founder of the SAS AV Extended in 2014, specializing in architectural projection mapping and light installations, Jérémie Bellot is the artistic director of the company and works with Anne Sophie Acomat within Studio DAAO on the development of micro-architecture and furniture design. In 2016, he opened the second FabCafe in France, FabCafe Strasbourg. Since 2018, he has created scenography and projection mapping content for Monumental Tour with his friend Michael Canitrot. In 2019, he founded the “Ateliers Eclairés”, Makerspace in Strasbourg and is president of the association; the same year, he became curator for the festival Constellations in Metz. In 2020, he co-founded the project “Château de Beaugency, Digital Art Center” and continues to ensure its programming and artistic direction.
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Tania Aedo
FabCafe Mexico City Co-founder
Cultural producer with a long trajectory on the participation in projects at the intersections of knowledge, especially art, science and technology. Co-founder at Membrana Lab Mexico City. Coordinator at Cátedra Max Aub, Transdisciplina en Arte y Tecnología, UNAM, Mexico and former director of Laboratorio Arte Alameda and Centro Multimedia at the National Center for the Arts in México City.
Cultural producer with a long trajectory on the participation in projects at the intersections of knowledge, especially art, science and technology. Co-founder at Membrana Lab Mexico City. Coordinator at Cátedra Max Aub, Transdisciplina en Arte y Tecnología, UNAM, Mexico and former director of Laboratorio Arte Alameda and Centro Multimedia at the National Center for the Arts in México City.
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Claudia Pasquero
Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio
Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is the co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Landscape Architecture Professor at Innsbruck University and Associated Professor at the Bartlett UCL.
Claudia has been the Head Curator of the Tallinn Architectural Biennale 2017, titled Bio-Tallinn, and she was nominated in the WIRED smart list in the same year. She is the co-author of “Systemic Architecture – Operating manual for the self-organizing city” published by Routledge in 2012, and she is currently co-authoring her latest book “DeepGreen, bio-design in the age of artificial intelligence” due to be published in autumn 2022.
Her work has been exhibited internationally: at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Design Museum in London, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Mori Museum in Tokyo, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Saudi Art Biennale in Riyadh, COP26 in Glasgow, among others.
ecoLogicStudio has successfully completed a series of photosynthetic architectures, such as the Urban Algae Folly Milano 2015, the BioTechHut Astana 2017, PhotoSynthEtica Dublin 2019 , PhotosSynthEtica Helsinki 2020, AirBubble Playground Warsaw 2021, upon others.
Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is the co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Landscape Architecture Professor at Innsbruck University and Associated Professor at the Bartlett UCL.
Claudia has been the Head Curator of the Tallinn Architectural Biennale 2017, titled Bio-Tallinn, and she was nominated in the WIRED smart list in the same year. She is the co-author of “Systemic Architecture – Operating manual for the self-organizing city” published by Routledge in 2012, and she is currently co-authoring her latest book “DeepGreen, bio-design in the age of artificial intelligence” due to be published in autumn 2022.
Her work has been exhibited internationally: at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Design Museum in London, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Mori Museum in Tokyo, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Saudi Art Biennale in Riyadh, COP26 in Glasgow, among others.
ecoLogicStudio has successfully completed a series of photosynthetic architectures, such as the Urban Algae Folly Milano 2015, the BioTechHut Astana 2017, PhotoSynthEtica Dublin 2019 , PhotosSynthEtica Helsinki 2020, AirBubble Playground Warsaw 2021, upon others.
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Marco Poletto
Co-founder of ecoLogic Studio
Marco Poletto is an architect, educator and innovator based in London. He is the co-founder and Director of the architectural practice ecoLogicStudio and the design innovation venture PhotoSynthetica, focussed on developing architectural solutions to fight Climate Change.
In the past 10 years ecoLogicStudio has designed and built several living installations and architectures, demonstrating how microorganisms such as algae can become part of the bio-city of the future.
Marco holds a PhD Degree from RMIT University, Melbourne. His thesis on the “Urbansphere” argues that the increased spatial integration of non-human systems within architecture is crucial to evolve higher forms of urban ecological intelligence. He is also co-author of “Systemic Architecture” a book published by Routledge in 2012.
Marco has been Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, visiting critic at Cornell University and Research Cluster leader at The Bartlett, UCL. He currently Lectures at the University of Innsbruck and the IAAC in Barcelona.
Marco’s work has been exhibited internationally, more recently in Paris (Centre Pompidou, 2019), Tokyo (Mori Gallery, 2019), Vienna (MAK, 2019), Karlsruhe (ZKM, 2019) and Astana (EXPO 2017).
Marco Poletto is an architect, educator and innovator based in London. He is the co-founder and Director of the architectural practice ecoLogicStudio and the design innovation venture PhotoSynthetica, focussed on developing architectural solutions to fight Climate Change.
In the past 10 years ecoLogicStudio has designed and built several living installations and architectures, demonstrating how microorganisms such as algae can become part of the bio-city of the future.
Marco holds a PhD Degree from RMIT University, Melbourne. His thesis on the “Urbansphere” argues that the increased spatial integration of non-human systems within architecture is crucial to evolve higher forms of urban ecological intelligence. He is also co-author of “Systemic Architecture” a book published by Routledge in 2012.
Marco has been Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, visiting critic at Cornell University and Research Cluster leader at The Bartlett, UCL. He currently Lectures at the University of Innsbruck and the IAAC in Barcelona.
Marco’s work has been exhibited internationally, more recently in Paris (Centre Pompidou, 2019), Tokyo (Mori Gallery, 2019), Vienna (MAK, 2019), Karlsruhe (ZKM, 2019) and Astana (EXPO 2017).
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Mimi Son
Co-founder of Kimchi and Chips
Mimi Son is 1 of 2 artists from the collective Kimchi and Chips based in Seoul. Her artistic practice is characterized by meticulous attention to detail and a willingness to embrace uncertainty and change through the introduction of natural phenomena, moving lights, and shifting perspectives. These are often presented as installations that focus on momentary happenings, wherein the separation between what is real and what is virtual collapses and blends.She has a deep curiosity about the many juxtapositions that define our world, including the relationship between life and death, day and night, existence and absence, the individuals and the collective, wealth and poverty, dreams and reality. She is also a dedicated teacher and mentor, giving lectures and workshops to younger artists, whilst also writing scenarios for design research, and serving as an artistic director for exhibitions. But recently most of time she is struggling to read and understand‘Differenceand Repetition’ by Gilles Deleuze.As a member of Kimchi and Chips, she has exhibited her work with a number of international institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Somerset House, Ars Electronica and Onassis Foundation.Mimi Son is 1 of 2 artists from the collective Kimchi and Chips based in Seoul. Her artistic practice is characterized by meticulous attention to detail and a willingness to embrace uncertainty and change through the introduction of natural phenomena, moving lights, and shifting perspectives. These are often presented as installations that focus on momentary happenings, wherein the separation between what is real and what is virtual collapses and blends.She has a deep curiosity about the many juxtapositions that define our world, including the relationship between life and death, day and night, existence and absence, the individuals and the collective, wealth and poverty, dreams and reality. She is also a dedicated teacher and mentor, giving lectures and workshops to younger artists, whilst also writing scenarios for design research, and serving as an artistic director for exhibitions. But recently most of time she is struggling to read and understand‘Differenceand Repetition’ by Gilles Deleuze.As a member of Kimchi and Chips, she has exhibited her work with a number of international institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Somerset House, Ars Electronica and Onassis Foundation. -
Predrag K. Nikolic
College For Creative Studies, Detroit, United States
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic is a Full Professor and Chair of the Graduate User Experience (UX) Design Program at College For Creative Studies, Detroit, United States. His research focuses on mix-experiential reality, singularity, Human-AI interaction, artificial intelligence emancipation, intelligent interfaces, robot creativity, AI aesthetics, and design for behavioral changes.
He mixes immersive virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, and responsive environments to engage an audience in new interactive experiences and media perceptions. His ongoing research project Syntropic Counterpoints had numerous exposures worldwide together with artworks such as AI.R Taletorium, Aquaterrestrial Colonization, Metaphysics of the Machines, Botorikko Machine Created State, Robosophy Philosophy, In_Visible Island.
He exhibited and presented his works at Ars Electronica Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Art, SIGGRAPH, Technarte, EmTech MIT Review, Singapore Science Center, Maison Shanghai, Hong Kong – Shenzhen Design Biennial, National Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, National Museum of Education in Belgrade.
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic has published numerous research papers in creative user experience and co-creation, artificial intelligence creativity, AI aesthetics, robot–robot interaction, design for behavior change, mix-experiential reality, multi-sensory interfaces, interactivity, and interface design. He is Editor-In-Chief for EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies and European Alliance for Innovation Fellow and founder of AI.R Lab.
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic is a Full Professor and Chair of the Graduate User Experience (UX) Design Program at College For Creative Studies, Detroit, United States. His research focuses on mix-experiential reality, singularity, Human-AI interaction, artificial intelligence emancipation, intelligent interfaces, robot creativity, AI aesthetics, and design for behavioral changes.
He mixes immersive virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, and responsive environments to engage an audience in new interactive experiences and media perceptions. His ongoing research project Syntropic Counterpoints had numerous exposures worldwide together with artworks such as AI.R Taletorium, Aquaterrestrial Colonization, Metaphysics of the Machines, Botorikko Machine Created State, Robosophy Philosophy, In_Visible Island.
He exhibited and presented his works at Ars Electronica Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Art, SIGGRAPH, Technarte, EmTech MIT Review, Singapore Science Center, Maison Shanghai, Hong Kong – Shenzhen Design Biennial, National Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, National Museum of Education in Belgrade.
Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic has published numerous research papers in creative user experience and co-creation, artificial intelligence creativity, AI aesthetics, robot–robot interaction, design for behavior change, mix-experiential reality, multi-sensory interfaces, interactivity, and interface design. He is Editor-In-Chief for EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies and European Alliance for Innovation Fellow and founder of AI.R Lab.
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Kelsie Stewart
FabCafe CCO
Kelsie joined Loftwork and FabCafe in 2017 and oversees the FabCafe Global network. In FabCafes across Asia, Europe and America, Kelsie strategizes and aligns Fab synergies to empower everyone to take the initiative to make and share their ideas with local and global communities. Kelsie is also the Tokyo organizer for the Global Goals Jam (GGJ), a two-day designathon and community which aims to create short term solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. Kelsie has organized sustainability and design thinking workshops in Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Kelsie joined Loftwork and FabCafe in 2017 and oversees the FabCafe Global network. In FabCafes across Asia, Europe and America, Kelsie strategizes and aligns Fab synergies to empower everyone to take the initiative to make and share their ideas with local and global communities. Kelsie is also the Tokyo organizer for the Global Goals Jam (GGJ), a two-day designathon and community which aims to create short term solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. Kelsie has organized sustainability and design thinking workshops in Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
About the crQlr Awards
Launched in 2021 by FabCafe Global and Loftwork as Japan’s first award in the field of circular design, the crQlr Awards aim at supporting the future-designers who are working toward the implementation of circular economy systems. Our goal is to nurture a community where players can connect across industries and countries and share knowledge and technologies in order to uncover potential and create new value.
How can we develop impactful circular systems in a wildly diverse world? FabCafe branches across different countries have proven that long lasting change often starts small and responds to the specific needs of local communities. Thus, in its second edition, the crQlr Awards have introduced the FabCafe Global Special Prize, which will highlight bottom-up activities aimed at solving community issues.
Organizers
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FabCafe Global
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Loftwork, Inc.
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AWRD
Sponsors
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Ideas for Good
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Circular Economy Hub
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09:00 – 09:05
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Introduction
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09:05 – 09:55
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Presentations by the crQlr Awards 2022 Winners
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09:55 – 10:15
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Introductions from the crQlr Judges
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10:15 – 10:20
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Break
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10:20 – 10:55
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Open feedback session, Cross talk moderated by Kelsie Stewart
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10:55 – 11:00
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Wrap up and Closing
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Date & Time
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Thu, March 16, 2023 09:00 – 11:00 UTC-04:00
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Venue
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Online Session
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Fee
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Free
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Capacity
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100
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Organizers & Sponsors
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Organizers: FabCafe Global, Loftwork, Inc., AWRD
Sponsors: Ideas for Good, Circular Economy Hub