2019
OSCa
A project for Opera sceneries circularity and Resource
Opéra de Lyon (FR) Gothenburg Opera (SE), Tunis Opera (TU), Cité du design – Ecole supérieure d’art et de design (FR), UNESCO Chair for Climate Change – ESCI-UPF (ES), CIRIDD (FR), AdMaS – University of Technology of Brno (CZ)
State of the art Environmental awareness in opera houses was already high, but something more radical had to be done: rethink the usual artistic and programming strategies, and equip technical and production departments with new tools.
Description of the project OSCaR aims at creating a new collective dynamic within European opera houses (and beyond) to foster the circularity of (opera) sets through eco-friendly practices. As a capacity building project, its main objectives are to reinforce skills of technical departments, providing them with a science based knowledge on environmental footprint, and a better understanding of leverages to reduce it through materials & processes. The project aims at fostering sustainable practices by questioning management and cooperation processes through the lens of design methodologies. Starting from a survey on (eco)design practices within European opera houses, OSCaR aims at providing solutions to be used for the sake of future sustainability projects in the opera sector.
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OSCaR is about “resource efficiency” and as such it is modestly but concretely contributing to prepare a world where resources will be scarce. Creative Europe’s support OSCaR can be seen as a collective effort towards sustainability; none of the three involved opera houses could have afforded it alone and without Creative Europe funding.
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The UNESCO Chair involved in the project has produced its study on (eco)design practices in the sector and drafted a general proposition for a sustainability roadmap.
Creative Europe Project Results
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