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Core activity: workshops to prototype and test new lifestyles
Governance model: company
Patterns of Commoning:
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How can products or services be designed in such a way, that everything that involves its use, happens within the planetary boundaries?
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How can circular modes of consumption and production be put into practice, and eventually become more widespread?
Can sunglasses, for instance, be produced on a local scale with re-used plastics?
Esferica explores these kind of questions, and tries to rethink the way we create and consume products in today’s society.
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Marc, entrepreneur of Esfèrica, hopes to get insights into circular, local and decentralized production, and to develop sustainable business models for it.
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Mercè, process designer, explains how Esferica is testing these new lifestyles, and prototyping a "proof of concept".
She believes that, eventually, they can influence and transform mainstream ways of production and consumption.
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She puts her hope in local entrepreneurs who come up with new ideas to build a zero waste economy.
She stresses however that the focus should be on avoiding waste in the first place, rather than reusing it.
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