Alice Holmberg. Designer. Co-Director of Clear Village, London.
Alice focuses on the sustainable social impact of design –both immaterial and material. Her work covers a wide spectrum of design, ranging from high-end fashion to community focus. She has also researched the impact of fashion culture on the individual identity in a global perspective, a publication about which will soon be out on the streets. She has been awarded membership of the German National Academic Foundation for her socially responsible conceptual designs and of TED for her entrepreneurial energies and is a fellow of the RSA in London.
The encounter of the completely abstract and the earthbound is her home ground and she facilitates discussions that go from principles to action points. As such, she has been a part of developing a new university faculty, helps companies connect pre-industrial potential with post-modern values and is never short of a good plan and a smile. At CLEAR VILLAGE, she applies her creative and entrepreneurial powers as a member of the Board of Trustees as well as the Think Team.
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Artur Moustafa. Designer. Communications & Outreach, Helsingborg Stadsteatren, Helsingborg.
Artur is a concept designer with a background in setting up and running a design and furniture company. When he realized that there were more chairs than people in the world, he quit his company to see how he could better use his talents. He believes that by providing open source information and making sustainable products and services better than the alternatives, the world can become a better place.
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Thomas Ugo Ermacora. Geographer. Founder of Clear Village. London
Thomas is a passionate dano-italian urbanist and geographer acting mostly as a creative social entrepreneur focused on sustainability. After working with architecture and planning professions on Zero Carbon projects in Europe, he shifted towards a trust in participatory design practices and started CLEAR VILLAGE to rethink space, one village at a time and focus on upgrading the existing with communities. Thomas also runs the transition consultancy Etikstudio to promote sensible lifestyles through experience platforms such as exhibits and events for which he currently acts as Strategy & Creative Director, involving curatorial practice and concept design. One of the main outcomes has been a travelling platform exhibition on cycling culture called Dreams on Wheels in collaboration with Gehl Architects and Biomega amongst others. It has been touring for 8 years now and been seen by over a million people since it was selected as official COP15 prelude and supported by the Danish Foreign Ministry. Beyond these activities he has owned an organic slowfood-inspired restaurant, a webtv production company and acts as business angel or board member in a few early stage green start-ups such as Ethical Economy ltd making value-based performance tools, the Material Connexion Award 2009 nominee Cellucomp ltd and Inhabitat.com , the largest online sustainable design publication. Regional Ambassador for INDEX, member of Bioneers and Royal Society of Arts Fellow, he was recently appointed advisor to the RIBA Building Futures think tank. Thomas is the Founder of CLEAR VILLAGE.
Kristina Börjesson. PhD, Research Associate -Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Kristina Börjesson is dedicated to the designed object and its contribution to a holistic sustainable development. Sustainable development has developed into something of a buzz-word and its meaning has consequently become obscured. The word ‘holistic’ , which should serve as a reminder that sustainability depends on coordinated transdisciplinary actions, has become part of the buzz. She focused initially on the designed object but as a result of continued research it has become evident to enlarge the scope to include the ‘designed environment’, which is made up of a number of artefacts imposing themselves on nature, for better or for worse. What is for the benefit of humans long term is of course sustainable. A sustainable development would thus mean a human development and design and architecture ought consequently to focus more on design, body and mind.
Helena Uesson. de;co/Neglected Spaces, Malmö, Sweden
Specialised in strategic communication and sustainable development with an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, and a B.Sc. from Copenhagen Business School, Helena has a passion for cities and sustainable urbanism. After spending some years in London where she also was part of the CLEAR Village team, she now runs her own consultancy agency de;co in Sweden where she undertakes projects within innovation, sustainable urban design and architecture for both private and governmental organisations with clients such as China Productivity Centre (Taiwan), Expandera/Ugly Duckling, Copenhagen Business School, Tyréns and The Municipality of Helsingborg (H+). Helena is also founder of the think tank ‘Neglected Spaces’.
Seif Alhasani. Illustrator
Seif was born in Iraq, grew up in Sweden and studied in London, where he graduated from the London College of Communication with a BA in illustration. He is a freelancing illustrator and has lived and worked in Dubai, Mumbai, Beirut and Morocco. Favoring a multi-disciplinary approach, Seif turns his image making skills to anything from magazines to interior design and toy making. Although most of his commercial work is created digitally, he loves nothing more than working with his hands and will take any excuse to screen print posters, build paper models and paint murals. Whatever the medium, he always aims to create conceptually driven work that is highly visual with a playful twist.
