Sustainable development
Sustainable development
Since the construction of the building, the architectural project is part of a High Quality Environment process, ecology and sustainable development are at the heart of concerns for EPCC-Le Quai.
The entire team is involved in a long term perspective about the implementation of a sustainable cultural and artistic development at Le Quai. Among the initiatives, implemented actions and results include:
Communication
- high volume printings done on FSC or PEFC certified paper, using vegetal inks without solvent,
- Optimized distribution of communications materials and limitation of printing volumes according to the actual needs (e.g.: 25% reduction of the number of copies for the 12/13 brochure),
- Subscription to the EcoFolio contract: eco-contribution to help further progress in paper recycling.
Reception of the artists
Awareness-raising through a ecological charter integrated in the contracts and catering based on products from organic agriculture.
Mobility Commitment to a process of Corporate Travel Plan to improve the accessibility to the site and to reduce the use of private cars.
Office supplies 46 % come from a range of "green" products.
Purchasing policy priority selection of suppliers having a clear approach to sustainable development. (e.g.: choice for the hosts and hostesses 12/13 season’s outfits of "fair trade shirts" made in France).
Sorting A contract has been signed in January 2012 with an "Establishment of Service and Support for Work" (ESAT La Gibaudière) employing disabled workers and ensures sorting, recycling and recovering our waste cardboard, paper, plastic.
Energy / electricity 21 % of the energy consumed by the building in the year 2012 is produced by a power plant of renewable electricity (EDF "Equilibre" contract). Certification by the organisation Observ’er (Observatory for Renewable Energies).
Biodiversity installation of two bee hives on the roof of the Quai.
Imagine 2020 - Art and climate change
Beyond this functional approach, the EPCC-Le Quai is involved in a process of European cultural cooperation through the project iMAGiNE 2020 - Art and Climate Change, supported by the European Union.
What role can the cultural sector play in the transition process to stabilize the climate and ensure a sustainable future? Can art generate an aspiration and a collective hope, a dynamic change? These are the questions the eleven cultural structures* that constitute the network are trying to answer.
They share a sense of responsibility towards these challenges and are aiming to encourage the world of art and the cultural sector in Europe to get involved and use their creative potential to involve the public at marge both as a spectator and an actor.
Several artistic and cultural projects are led by the EPCC-Le Quai in this context, including:
for the 12/13 season: Le bal des intouchables by the company the Colporteurs and the cycle of Cartographies by Frédéric Ferrer with the Company Vertical Détour,
and in the longer term: the assistance in the creation of Sfumato by Rachid Ouramdane’s Compagnie à and the support to the I.C.E. project by Phia Ménard with the company Non Nova.
* Kaaitheater, Bruxelles ; EPCC-Le Quai, Angers ; Bunker, Ljubljana ; Domaine d’O, Montpellier ; Artsadmin, Londres ; LIFT, Londres ; Domino, Zagreb ; Latvijas jaunà teàtra institùts, riga ; Transforma, Torres vedras (Portugal) ; rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam ; Kampnagel, Hambourg.
For more information on the project iMAGiNE 2020 - Art and Climate Change: www.imagine2020.eu >http://www.imagine2020.eu/