Thursday, October 29, 2026 · Maison de l’Avenir, Geneva

Vert le Futur – Alliance Sustainable Culture and art-werk are pleased to invite you to the first event in the new series “Taking Care of the Ecosystem,” organized in Geneva in collaboration with SIPI – Swiss Impact & Prosperity Initiative.

How can we evolve artistic, curatorial, and cultural practices while taking environmental and social issues into account? This first gathering offers an opportunity for exchange, reflection, and collective action around the connections between care, culture, and ecological transition.

Through workshops, roundtables, presentations, and co-creative processes, the event will bring together cultural actors, networks committed to sustainability, as well as representatives from public authorities, foundations, and funding partners. The goal: to share existing tools and practices, bring to light unmet needs and unresolved questions, and jointly identify concrete courses of action to strengthen cultural ecosystems.

The choice of October 29 is symbolic: this date marks the United Nations International Day of Care and Support, which highlights the essential role of care in the sustainability and resilience of our societies.

A day in two parts

On October 29, Vert le Futur, art-werk, and the Swiss Impact & Prosperity Initiative (SIPI) will bring together two complementary events around a shared question: what does it mean to prosper, and what does it mean to care?

The date is particularly meaningful as it marks the United Nations International Day of Care and Support, which highlights the essential role of care in the sustainability and resilience of our societies and economies.

The morning will be dedicated to Rethinking Prosperity for 2040: Voices and Questions, an event organised by SIPI focusing on the development of shared narratives for regenerative prosperity as a basis for action towards systemic change.

Programme: 10:30–11:20 – Opening keynote & presentation of the Rethinking Prosperity for 2040 process | 12:20–14:00 – Narrative workshops & presentation of outcomes | 14:00–14:50 – Closing panel: Prosperity Narratives in Practice

From 1:00 pm, we will also come together for Taking Care of the Ecosystem #1 – Pathways to a Sustainable, Purposeful and Prosperous Cultural Sector, a participatory gathering initiated by Vert le Futur and conceived in collaboration with art-werk.

The afternoon will explore ways of caring for the people, resources, relationships, and structures that make up Geneva’s and Switzerland’s cultural ecosystems, while strengthening their collective responsibility and resilience.

Programme – Taking Care of the Ecosystem #1

1:00–1:30 pm — Registration

1:30–2:30 pm — Three parallel interactive workshops:

• Nicolas Rodrigues, art-werk — Explorer le vivant à travers l’art et la médiation
• Margaux Schwab, Founder and Director of Foodculture Days, & Tali Serruya, multidisciplinary artist and researcher — What sustains us?
• Yves Corminbœuf, HEAD — De la source à l’action

2:30–3:00 pm — Break

3:00–3:30 pm — Welcome by Vert le Futur & art-werk, connecting with SIPI / B Lab

• Recap of the SIPI event
• Wrap-up of the Taking Care of the Ecosystem workshops

3:30–4:00 pm — Perspectives

• Mateo Chacón Pino, Vert le Futur — Scaling Culture Climate Action
• Jonas Chéreau, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum — Placing Sustainability at the Heart of a Transformation Project

4:00–4:45 pm — Panel: Funding Strategies at the intersection of culture & sustainability

Featuring Danielle Nanchen, Head of Cultural Creation, Federal Office of Culture, and Cléa Redalié, Head of the Cantonal Office for Culture, Geneva.

Moderation: Romaine Jean, journalist, editorialist and producer.

4:45–5:00 pm — Closing with a reading by Cassiane Pfund (TBC)

5:00–7:00 pm — Networking aperitif, with a Gallery Walk at CCL & CCC and a metabolic artwork by Byungseo Yoo (TBC)

SIPI event: 10:00 am–2:50 pm, lunch included

Taking Care of the Ecosystem #1: 1:00–7:00 pm, aperitif included

You are welcome to attend the entire day or either of the two events separately. To help us plan the day, please register your interest by Friday, October 16.

About the Taking Care of the Ecosystem event series

The Taking Care of the Ecosystem event series was developed by Vert le Futur to activate the content of the Tatenbank , its free digital platform featuring a curated selection of tools, approaches, and inspiring practices related to ecological and social sustainability. It helps cultural practitioners turn their intentions into concrete actions.

Taking place across Switzerland’s four linguistic regions, these gatherings seek to deepen our understanding of the diverse ecosystems that shape the cultural sector, while caring for and strengthening the connections within and between them. They will create spaces for mutual learning, trust-building, and sustainable cooperation.

By bringing together different disciplines, perspectives, and networks, these gatherings will make existing knowledge and resources more visible and support participants in collectively identifying needs, challenges, and opportunities for action, both within each regional ecosystem and across the Swiss cultural sector as a whole.

The ambition is also to foster alliances beyond the cultural field and to highlight the essential role that art and culture can play in processes of social transformation.

The first event

This first event brings together three partners whose approaches are complementary:

• Vert le Futur – Alliance Sustainable Culture, a national, multilingual organisation working to strengthen ecological, social, and institutional sustainability across the Swiss cultural sector by connecting cultural practitioners, sharing knowledge, and supporting concrete action;
• art-werk, a non-profit organisation that supports and promotes artistic practices addressing contemporary social and environmental issues, notably through exhibitions, the (re)connecting.earth Biennale, and an educational programme at the intersection of art and environmental science;
• SIPI – Swiss Impact & Prosperity Initiative, hosted by B Lab Switzerland and co-founded with inTent, which supports Switzerland’s transition towards regenerative and inclusive prosperity within planetary boundaries.