Corail Artefact

An art-science-industry-education project to save the coral reefs.

With his intuition and guided by his societal approach to art, the artist Jérémy Gobé imagines the Corail Artefact project: a global solution - art, science, industry and education - the objective being to fight against the disappearance of corals. To do this, it creates an endowment fund and a company in order to develop research (artistic, scientific and industrial) and awareness-raising actions (among schoolchildren and the general public) of the project.

Take inspiration from nature to respond to our contemporary issues.

Reefs and coral reefs line more than 150,000 kilometers of coastline in more than 100 countries and territories. The largest and best known of these formations, the Great Barrier, off the Australian coast, stretches some 2,000 km. Coral reefs dramatically reduce damage from storms and hurricanes, as well as absorb the devastating energy of tsunamis.

Ecological materials

Concrete alone is responsible for 5% of annual global CO2 emissions. Fishing with dynamite caused the destruction of many reefs. The sand used in construction materials is often taken from the seabed and from the coastlines, accentuating the degradation of the whole and promoting the rising waters. Jérémy Gobé and his partners develop ecological, constructible and submersible materials in order to create a support allowing the coral to regenerate where it has been destroyed.

Goal

Using innovative materials, develop a global solution to restore coral reefs around the world: protect impacted areas (creation of protected marine reserves), carry out the study of reefs using new technologies ( 3D scanning, photogrammetry, etc.), identify and enhance local resources (plant fibers, organic industrial waste, etc.), set up our workshops in order to locally produce our materials thus creating jobs, in short: deploy our technologies on territories to be restored by fixing populations and reducing the carbon footprint.