CÉDRIC CARLES

ARTIST DESIGNER

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Cedric Carles is a French-Swiss artist and designer. Change maker and community making artist, his work mixes an experimental approach with a tangible prospective reflection on our spatial and climatic environment. His projects go beyond the cult specific to design of the object, to open up to other disciplines, to the vast field of education and innovations, including social ones.

Artist, transition designer and director of Atelier 21 in Paris, passionated about energy issues Cédric Carles develops artistic and ecological interventions in the public space. He is today, the driving force behind a vast network of actors working for energy transition.

Cedric Carles participated in the conception of the temporary exhibition "Energy and Climate" with the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and the GIEC Climate expert Martine Rebetez. In an effort to prolong the embodied energy of the exhibit in a second life, Carles created ITEX ("ITinerant EXposition", or, "Mobile Exhibition"), an Ngo dedicated to educating schools on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

His critical reflection on energy technology and progressive living has peaked the interest of the Department of Research of the Cité du Design ( on fuel poverty and smart-grid ) as well as the Leroy Merlin think tank ( world leader of DIY market stores), with whom he currently collaborates. Carles equally served as editorial advisor and participant for the radio program "Les Urbanités", prospective broadcast on the city of tomorrow, on Radio Suisse Romande. In 2011, Carles served as interior designer for ECO46, the first 100% ecologically constructed administrative building in Switzerland, consisting of local lumber and collaborative design. Currently he is leading a project for the Chamarande Estate designing open source updated picnic tables for the park grounds.

After Switzerland, Carles open a SolarSoundSystem's antenna in Paris in 2013. Started in 1999 in Lausanne, this 100% energy autonomous dj booth has proposed a unique way of addressing the energy resource issues of today through a cultural lens. Invited from Art Basel with Kolkoz to This concept continues to inspire more and more cultural and educational organizations on a global scale. SolarSoundSystem has invested in projects around the world in Hong-Kong, Tel Aviv, Biarritz, Lausanne, Berlin, Marseille and Paris, all the antenna shared a web radio hosted by solar energy RadioSolarSoundSystem. The project has been certified by UNESCO Switzerland under the category of " The decade of United Nations for the Education of sustainable development ". The team joins the COP21, COP22 and COP23 villages of civil society to present their systems. Recently, he was collaborating with Tomas Saraceno and Aerocene foundation for “on air” on Palais de Tokyo in Paris and for “ALBEDO” installation in Art Basel Miami 2018. Cédric is a co-leader of Aerocene community France.

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He lives and works in France.