Logical Dream has been part of regional DJ scene for decade, and has been experimenting with various genres of electronic music. Constantly searching for quality music, his case varies from funk, nu-disco, deep house, drum and bass, lounge and chill out tracks. His sets are always full of positive vibes. During his carrier he played with some of the top electronic artists.

Richard is the director and co-founder of Biomimicry UK, a collaborative social enterprise initiated to deal with challenges we are facing in the 21st century. He is an awarding-winning urbanist and urban design consultant. Currently, he is involved in reimagining packaging design with three global brands, working to develop the European Biomimicry Alliance with similar organisations from across European Union, and the formation of a Naturally-inspired Manufacturing Centre (NiMC) with both academia and industry from around the globe. He is a Living Building Challenge ambassador and is part of the UK collaborative adapting it to the UK. Richard has worked on a variety of projects across the UK and Europe from housing schemes through to billion-dollar asset transfers. Richard’s passion is to work with, learn from and connect with nature whilst improving the health and wellbeing of the ecosystems we live within.

Jetlir Kovaçi will conduct the “Up-Cycling and Recycling” workshop for young children. He was born on November 10.1991 in Ulcinj, Montenegro. After completing secondary education, in September 2010, he went to Istanbul for further education. After mastering the Turkish language in 2012 he commenced his studies in Architecture at the Istanbul Technical University. Beside his school projects, he also participates in different activities out of the school programme. He is a member of “Albanian Student Union” in Turkey where he deals with organizations of various activities and meetings with the students. For two years now, he is a member in an architectural community for children named “Yerden Yüksek”, where he deals with different workshops for and with children. He is also a volunteer assistant of prof. Oruç Çakmaklı in “Basic Design and Visual Arts” classes at the Architecture Faculty. He has taken part in several other workshops, conferences, panels and exhibitions on arts and design. Mr. Kovaçi is highly interested in photography and during the previous years, he has participated in some photo contests as “Istanbul Photo Contest” and “Marubi Project” where his photos have been selected for the exhibition. Jetlir Kovaçi is still attending studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Istanbul Technical University.

Filippo Ricci si an award winning documentary film maker, now consistently involved in sustainability for the fashion and textile industry.

MD at From Somewhere from 2001 to 2014 he is one of the original founders, organiser and curator of Estethica, the Brigish Fashion Council eco fashion area at LFW from 2006 to 2014.

Filippo has worked extensively with partner Orsola de Castro, consulting on upcycling for Tesco, Speedo and more recently Topshop

Zlatko is a construction engineer by vocation, but he has primarily been an artist, a painter.

Unhappy with human relations surrounding him he showed interest in psychology and philosophy which made him look for answers to questions about a higher dimension of living. At the age of 29 he found a teaching that dealt with practical aspects of living that posed questions that led to a practical application of spirituality. It proposed turning to oneself, and giving a creative impulse to spirituality and everyday living. He adopted the method and was active in teaching for 25 years.

Aside from school, in the beginning of the 90s he was active at a center for ecological research that was carrying out a global ecological initiative (ecology of human consciousness and space) with research and projects (healing, energetically organized space, education, preparation and use of natural medicine, traditional medicine and other forms of healing, existential therapy, healing with patterns, crystals, colors, and sounds).

Besides academia (existential psychology, methods of healing and radiesthesies, organizing spaces where we live), he is also into practicing how to organize, protect and bring quality into our living places.

Zlatko is co-author of 3 books with his wife, Srdjana, who is his active assosiate. They write for several magazines that deal with spiritual health and esotery.
The principles that Srdjana and Zlatko stand for are humanity, equality amongst the world’s population, peace, creativity on an individual and global level, and an idea of an individual as a unique personality.

Orsola de Castro was born in 1966, the daughter of a well known Venetian artist.

She originally trained in fine art and printmaking and her first solo shows in 1986-1987 were sponsored by Letraset Italia, and were part of the Venetian Carnival program under the patronage of the regional Assessorato Alla Cultura.

She started upcycling in the early 90’s and her collection if reclaimed and re embellished vintage hats were sold internationally.

In 1997 she started From Somewhere, a pioneering upcycling label, the first to introduce luxury pre consumer waste (recovered from some of the best Italian mills and manufacturers) and her From Somewhere collaborations have included Robe di Kappa, Jigsaw, Tesco and Speedo.

From Somewhere were the winners of the best sustainable fashion label at the Observer Ethical Awards in 2010.

In 2006 she co founded Estethica, the Eco Fashion area at London Fashion Week, which she cocurated until September 2014.

From Somewhere was the first brand to take part in Livia Firth Green Carpet Challenge, in Sept 2009, and Orsola subsequently dressed Livia for the Oscars in 2010, and remained an active part of the GCC initiative until 2012.

In 2011 Orsola started Reclaim To Wear, working extensively to bring upcycling to the forefront, collaborating with Tesco, Central Saint Martins and Topshop.

The Topshop Reclaim To Wear collection launched in 2012 and resulted in 3 bestselling collections, the latest launched in July 2014.

In 2014, together with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a creative campaign now active in 68 countries.

Orsola is associate lecturer for the University of the Arts and lectures regularly in the UK (at CSM, RCA and Camberwell) and internationally.

Orsola is a regular speaker at many international symposiums including the 2010 IHT Luxury Conference, and is senior judge for the Hong Kong Eco Chic Upcycling Design Awards since 2011.

Laura Pando has been the Sustainability Coordinator at Festival Republic since 2011. Working very closely with staff and contractors, her efforts aim at incorporating environmental sustainability into the planning, communication and execution of Festival Republic’s UK main events (Latitude, Reading and Leeds festivals). Laura’s focus is on audience travel, energy reduction and water and waste management. Some examples of her work include: the creation of priority car parks at the festival sites for those who fill up their car seats using ride-sharing schemes, the implementation of hybrid power solutions, the introduction of energy telemetries on generators to understand and reduce fuel consumption, and investigating camping waste solutions through supply change management and behavioural change projects.

Laura has also created a number of bespoke educational & incentive initiatives to engage audiences and manages teams over 200 people that work on the environmental schemes at the festivals.

Through her work, in 2014 Festival Republic achieved 3 IG stars rating across all criteria for Reading festival (for the third year running) and Leeds festival (for the second year running). She also oversees the environmental performance of other festivals like the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park events, which includes Proms in the Park.

Iphigenia Taxopoulou is the General Secretary and a founding member of theatre network mitos21, a collaboration platform created by some of the most important public theatres and theatre institutions in Europe. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, where she designed and is supervising a policy framework for sustainable management, the first of its kind in Greece.

She has served as Associate General Secretary of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) and has collaborated, as artistic advisor and international projects manager, with theatre festivals and cultural institutions in Greece and abroad, among which the National Theatre of Strasbourg, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden-Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival, the Athens Festival, the Dimitria Arts Festival of Thessaloniki. She has been the head of International Relations at the National Theatre of Northern Greece, where she also worked as a literary manager and head of the publications department. Between 2009 and 2012 she served as cultural advisor to the President of the Hellenic Parliament.
She lectures and writes regularly on international theatre and issues of cultural policy for cultural reviews and newspapers.
Her academic background includes a BA in Classics and Literature, as well as an MA on Arts Policy and Management, at City University London.

Alison established Julie’s Bicycle in 2007 as a non-profit company helping the music industry reduce its environmental impacts and develop new thinking in tune with global environmental challenges. JB has since extended its remit to many other art forms and is acknowledged as the leading organization bridging sustainability with the arts and culture.

Alison worked for many years with socially excluded young people as Development Director at Community Music, and then at Creative and Cultural Skills where she established the National Skills Academy for the music industry. She is a 2011 London Leader, advisor to Tonic, a judge on the Observer Ethical Awards and the Royal College of Arts Sustainable Design Awards, and a fellow of the RSA.

Speaker Background Summary:

Yaniv is an Associate at Exploration Architecture, a cutting edge practice leading the field of Biomimicry and its application in the architecture and design field. He trained at the Manchester School of Architecture after which he joined the world famous practice Future Systems, where he worked on several projects with Jan Kaplicky - including the Budvar Concert and Congress Centre.

Since 2009 Yaniv has been collaborating with Michael Pawlyn at Exploration Architecture and joined the practice as Associate in 2011. He has lead a number of high profile projects for the practice including, The Mobius Project, The Biomimetic Office Building, The Nagpur Zero waste Textiles Factory and The Designing With Nature exhibition. Yaniv also leads a number of research projects for the practice involving multilevel collaborations with a number of high profile organisations and educational institutes.

Personal Philosophy:

At a time when architecture and society urgently need to reconsider their relationship to the natural world there are few more exciting and innovative ways to find new solutions to our current and future challenges than the discipline known as Biomimicry. I believe that disruptive systemic change is on the horizon and the combination Biology, Technology and Design will yield the new ecological age of mankind

Previous Speaking Engagements:

Green Vision, Leeds 2015
Safari, Tel Aviv 2015
Green Drinks, London 2015
2nd Biomimicry Innovation and Finance Summit, Zurich 2014 Design Week, Sheffield 2014
Camden Create Festival, London 2014
Architecture Foundation, London 2014
CIBSE Intelligent Building Group, London 2014
Design Exchange Super Talks, London 2014
Climate and Environment Research Group, Nottingham 2014 University of Sheffield, 2013
SAWSA Lecture Series, Cardiff 2012
Strelka institute, Moscow 2012

"most fascinating liberating & inspiring content in a long time”
Martin Brown (Fairsnape)

“A fitting climax to a day of fascinating talks”
Derek J Croome (CIBSE)

“passionate and inspiring”
Jason Richards (WSP UK)

A Liverpool University graduate of Geography and ecology, Aaron places his interest in climate change in a desire to understand complex natural systems. Having spent a number of years working on small community environmental projects, in search or larger carbon reductions Aaron now works with businesses and specialises in the media sector.

Currently, Aaron is sustainability advisor to the BAFTA Albert consortium - A group of 12 UK broadcasters and production companies creating the tools and resources necessary to address the environmental impact of UK media production sector. Having previously worked ‘greening’ BBC and Warner Bros productions, Aaron continues to supports screen art projects as well as advise on industry wide sustainability strategy.

Jamie Catto, Creator, Producer/Director of the multi-award winning global 1 Giant Leap films and albums and founder member of Faithless is now leading uniquely transformative workshops and one-on-one sessions. Drawing from the richly diverse wisdom, techniques and processes he has encountered during his ground-breaking filming, recording, philosophy voyages across all 5 continents, he is weaving these creative techniques and exercises to spark both Professional and Personal breakthroughs.

“Jamie Catto is a human icebreaker with a prow of determination and a motor of love, slicing through the frozen seas around us.” Tom Robbins

Some of the Artists he has collaborated with and Directed in his projects to date include:

MUSIC: Bono, Michael Stipe (REM), Alanis Morissette, Dido, Robbie Williams, Daniel Lanois, KD Lang, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry…

FILM/TV: Dennis Hopper, John Cusack, Carrie Fisher, Billy Connolly, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Fry

Other: Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Bob Geldof, Tom Robbins, Douglas Coupland…

Sanja Orlandić graduated in Biology on the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica. She has been employed as the energy programme coordinator of CSO Green Home – Zeleni dom since 2008. Her areas of work in the frame of energy programme include energy efficiency, renewable energy sources (with focus on solar and wind energy), providing opinions for national strategic documents (such as the National energy strategy), Strategic environmental impact assessments for large energy projects (interconnection cable between Pljevlja and Lastva Grbaljska, hydropower plants on Komarnica river), and researches about implementation of legislation in the field of energy in Montenegro.