Their creative process: the expression of going green
While Southern languages publishes its books on paper from sustainable forests and reflects, like FEZAH, to a transition to digital; Crossroads is proud to welcome its employees to offices made from recycled materials and low energy consumption.
In addition to promoting “Made in Faso”, Sébastien Bazemo is preparing to collaborate with a group of women weavers who work with organic 100% cotton and make sure recover and treat wastewater produced by their dyes. Its new range will thus demonstrate the possible compatibility between the world of luxury and respect for the environment.
Daudi Karungi, for his part, dedicated the entire first edition of his SPAIR artist residency with recycled materials. The final exhibition at the end of September will raise awareness among patrons and other art lovers of the nobility with which all materials can be adorned when they are worked with creative intention.
Kaala confirms to us that it is possible to combine the fight against deforestation and high-end cabinetmaking. The impact of the company, over a quarter, it's 40 trees recovered, a workshop operating completely autonomously with solar energy And 45 plants sold or donated to the reforestation service from the Fada region, in eastern Burkina Faso.
It all starts with a walk…
“The quality of the finished work is just as important to us as the path to get there. »
Kaala.
Kaala sees nature as a place of cooperation and not of consumption.
Regularly, Soumaila leaves to look for dry trees in the forest which he brings back to his workshop. With his team, he is working on their offer a second life while respecting the rough edges left by the first. At the end of this meticulous work, he will ensure that these trees, witnesses of a past life, find descendants in his nursery. Its mission: to sublimate the life of yesteryear and act for the renewal of another.
Les entrepreneurs du programme “Afrique Créative” proposent des biens et services de qualités tout en travaillant à réduire leurs externalités négatives.
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