Katell Gélébart
Bio
Graduated from La Sorbonne University and the École du Louvre (Paris), she is an Ecodesigner, author, collage/street artist, fashion ecodesigner and a university professor.
Founder and main designer of an ecodesign company (The Netherlands, India, Ukraine), professor at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Italy) , free lancer for crafts organisations ( India) lecturer and speaker sharing a pioneering vision of creativity/sustainability in faculties worldwide are just a few hats that she has endorsed in addition to being a TedX speaker and the recipient of the prestigious Kairos Prize 2012 -the European Cultural Award - “as a creative visionary revisiting what’s already there.”
Work
Being autodidacte has lead her to be multidisciplinary and to apply the Revisiting what’s already there” coupled to friendly means of production. From stationery designer to fashion and shoe designer, she has turned into a collage artist with a global art project initiated in 2023, an art explosion currently taking the world.
Ethos & Philosophy
She has a passion to show the potential of waste and how it can be transform into a design item. developing and promoting the potential of re-using waste & unwanted materials in the field of design. Creativity shouldn’t mean new pollution and generation of waste as I myself live towards zero waste. Advocate of the low tech’ (versus high tech’) she uses simple old techniques in her creative process.
“My creations are born in different cultural environment around the globe, with ”what is already there and act as a “ social impulse “ to inspire communities in their choices for change: social, environmental and a greater awareness".says Gélébart
Books
She is the subject of one book "Die Mülldesignerin: Wie Katell Gélébart die Welt verändert" / Katell Gelebart, the trash-designer who is changing the world. Christine Eichel and the author of The Freedom of having nothing Ecodesigner and Global Nomad”
Some links
From Collage to Street Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMg0MC9Q3Cs&t=57s
Collage in the City , artexplosion
https://635554c0d0da4.site123.me
Ted X speaker Trash is the Gold of tomorrow
KAIROS Prize, biography "Die Mülldesignerin: Wie Katell Gélébart die Welt verändert" / Katell Gelebart, the trash-designer who is changing the world. Christine Eichel autobiography The Freedom of having nothing Ecodesigner and Global Nomad” Katell Gélébart
