Our mission-oriented consultancy, seeks to “imagineer” a green caring society.

Our story

After many years of working in the field of sustainability, we decided in 2022 to create a mission-driven consultancy aimed at facilitating the emergence of more caring societies.

Our vision is for people in Europe and elsewhere to live in green caring societies in which everyone can lead full lives on a healthy and thriving planet.

With our clients and partners , NGOs, public institutions and the private sector, we co-create care-positive visions of the future and identify strategies to bridge the gap with the everyday reality of policy-making, politics and organizations.

Meet the team

Founder and CEO

  • With 25 years devoted to sustainability and systemic change, Céline Charveriat’s journey spans academia to global campaigns. At Oxfam, she led initiatives on inequality, climate, and conflict, making waves with groundbreaking campaigns. She has also been Executive Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a sustainability think tank where she spearheaded strategic planning efforts leading to the creation of Think Sustainable Europe (TSE) and Think2030. Having been Chair of the Board within Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and now Climate Catalyst, she continues to drive strategic planning processes aimed at catalyzing impactful change.

    Currently, Céline Charveriat serves as the Director of Prototopia and also holds the position of adjunct professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). Recently, she contributed to the work of a high-level group of the European Commission on innovation, notably offering insights into transforming education during polycrisis situations. Her current research endeavors delve into new economics, including alternative indicators to GDP. In addition to being a civil society leader, she is also advising several NGOs on organizational development and individuals as coach and mentor and supporting professional women in leadership positions in her field.

Co-founder and Policy Officer

  • Eloïse strives to make a meaningful impact on the planet and its people with 6 years of experience in policy-making, strategic planning and research work. She has worked for political institutions such as the French Parliament and the European Commission, as well as various NGOs to conduct field and research work. She also has strong experience in project management and managed Think2030, a platform fostering collective thinking on the future of sustainability policy in the EU. Additionally, Eloïse directs podcasts and artwork shedding light on environmental struggles, amplifying voices of the movements she encounters during her journeys in different parts of the world. Her podcast “Gouttes de Luttes – Fleuve de Résistance” on the struggle of Chilean women for access to water will be released in June 2024 and she recently published an article on gas extraction in Mozambique.

    She graduated from Business School and holds a Master degree in Political Economy of Europe from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Our Board

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    Armelle Ledan is a senior expert with 30 years of experience in European programmes and projects management, EU policies and EU funding, having worked at international, EU and national levels with various organisations. She coordinated several EU projects with multiple partners in her respective fields of expertise, notably social innovation, being the project manager of the Social Innovation Platform (SIE) (2015-2016) and the H2020 Social Innovation Community (SIC) project (2016-2019) leading to the Lisbon Declaration on social innovation, as well as for the assessment of EaSI social experimentation projects (2020-22). She is the author of the “practical guide for project promoters on social experimentation (2022). In her other field of expertise, migration, she coordinated the Young Migrant Capacity Building (YMCB) project on migrants entrepreneurship and contributed to several publications. Armelle also has a solid background in ESIF and ESF in particular, having worked for the French ESF Managing Authority, DG EMPL policy advisor for the ESF Director and the ESF Transnational Cooperation Platform. She is the Lead Expert for the ESF+ Social Innovation Community (CoP) since 2023, combining the experience gained over time on ESF, social innovation and transnational cooperation. She also worked for UNDP in Sudan, and regularly gives professional lectures and training (Montpellier University, CNFPT). She is qualified in facilitation for collaborative workshops (FORMAPART) and holds a master’s degree in Legal European Studies (Bruges) and in Social Economy (Montpellier). She is a native French speaker and fluent in English.

Our Associates

We work with associates to bring their expertise and collaborate with us on various projects. We aim to create a community of change-makers, who can work together on our impactful mission to build a fairer and greener world.

  • Associate

    Kate is an experienced leader in non-profit and philanthropic organisations, with a deep commitment to enabling societies that are fair, resilient and sustainable. With a Master ́s degree in anthropology, she has 24 years’ work experience in the non-profit sector. She has worked as a network-builder, innovator and facilitator, and her work includes philanthropic grant-making, programme leadership, academic research, and non-profit project management. In her roles, she has developed pioneering projects and found like-minded funding partners -like Pro(to)topia- to co-create high ambition action for greater social impact. Kate uses an entrepreneurial spirit to develop new concepts and get them up and running. Her professional skills include research, project development, fundraising, convening, and designing engaging workshops -including online events. Kate has built a reputation for creating motivating, energising and respectful spaces to tackle difficult issues and controversial topics such as climate justice, overconsumption and the need for caring economies.

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    Pierre Leturcq (He/His) is a Brussels-based independent think tanker and public affairs consultant with nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of EU public affairs, climate diplomacy, trade, and sustainability. He advises leading research organisations on strategy and outreach, is a Senior Associate with the Institute for European Environmental Policy and Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G), and a Fellow at CISDL.

    He focuses on EU trade policy and environmental sustainability, particularly on the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) aspects of EU Free Trade Agreements and the international dimensions of Green Deal policies such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Pierre is an Affiliate Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (Paris School of International Affairs - PSIA), where he teaches the course "EU Sustainability Policies in an International Perspective" in PSIA's Master's programme. In 2021, Pierre led the creation of the Green Trade Network (GTN), a group of over 50 policy experts conducting evidence-based research and outreach activities on the trade and environment nexus. Until 2023, Pierre was Director of Studies of Europe Jacques Delors, a Brussels-based think tank which he contributed to creating in 2020 with former EU Trade Commissioner and former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy.

  • Associate

    Clare is an experienced gender, economic and environmental rights and justice leader, connector, and strategist. With a legal background, she has held positions at think tanks, charities, and governmental agencies in Europe and Africa. She has a respected record in harnessing the law, policy, campaigning and learning for collective public good, working across a range of thematic areas from fisheries and biofuels, to fiscal justice, care economy and women’s rights.]

    Always curious for new ways of doing, thinking and learning, Clare’s recent focus has been on systems change for green and care centred economies and societies, specifically building collective coalitions and challenging deep  narratives. In this work, her priority is shifting power in the system, supporting the collective agency and leadership of people and communities in the just transition for people and planet.

Associated Artists

We works with artists to create new narratives and societal visions as a key part of our mission to imagineer green caring futures. We know art is essential to engineer perspective shifts in how we envision common futures, so we collaborate with artists on projects relating to Green Caring Societies, and give them a platform to share their creativity.

  • Sam Nester

    Trumpet Player, Composer and Sound Artist

    Sam Nester is an Australian-born trumpet player, composer, and sound artist based in New York. His work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, harnessing natural processes to create immersive sound installations and musical compositions. He has been the artist-in-residence for the Center for Genomics & Systems Biology at NYU Abu Dhabi, the European Commission Directorate-General for Environment, Bruny Island (Australia), the US National Parks in Hawai’i, and the Festival of Arts Design Acerenza (Italy). 

    Nester often collaborates with scientists and policy officers on the creation of work at the nexus of art, science, and policy, and his commissioned works include site-specific environmental sound installations and compositions for the US State Department, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Colby College, George Mason University, New York University, EcoArt Project, XPANSE, Metropolis Ensemble, the National Parks Arts Foundation, the City of Houston, and the City of Hobart (Australia). He serves on The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music faculty.

  • Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag

    Sound Artist

    After a Ph.-D. in Material Science at ESPCI in Paris, Mathilde swapped her lab coat for a synth and a couple of microphones. She went from an academic approach to address global warming to a sensitive and an artistic one. Her sound research first evolved around concrete, improvised and experimental music, before she explored sound creation for radio. She quickly discovered the field of sound ecology, and slowly her domains of interests converged again: in her first radio drama Rock also die we can hear atoms talking about extractivism. It has received international interest (selected in 2023 for the Prix Nova, Bucarest and the Prix Europa, Berlin, and third price for fiction at UKRDIF, Canterbury). Today, she is based in Brussels and balances her work as a writer at the border between fiction and essay, a high school science teacher, and a sound artist.

  • Penelope Cain

    Storyteller and Writer

    Penelope Cain is an artist with a research science background working at the science-art intersection in a speculative and open-ended storytelling mode.

    She undertakes expanded storytellings of the lands, waters and air of the Anthropocene and Post-Carbon. Drawing from scientific research, her art practice is located between scientific knowledge and unearthing connective untold narratives in the world. She works across media and knowledge streams, with scientists, datasets, people, stories and land to storytell about molecular level connections between places and across time.

    She has been awarded research residencies including most recently for S+T+ARTS The Hague, the Glenfiddich Contemporary Art Residency, Scotland, and HAWAPI, Peru. She is currently working on a commission for the EU Digital Deal, making a speculative post-human play between a robot and the plants it is programmed to care for.

  • Margherita Pevere

    Visual Artist

    Margherita Pevere is an artist and researcher acclaimed for her otherworldly work with living matter, ecology and biotechnology. Her practice embraces object-making, installation, performance, and writing. Her works are regularly exhibited internationally, and she has a record of art and science partnerships in prestigious research centres. She holds a doctorate in artistic research on biological arts and queer and feminist studies.

    She collaborated with Pro(to)topia on community engagement as part of her project Lament about post-wildfire ecologies. [more about the community engagement program?]. Lament was awarded the COAL Prize / Transformative territories mention 2024.

  • Heather Bourbeau

    Writer

    Heather Bourbeau’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. Her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin, and her latest poetry collection, Monarch, examines overlooked histories from the US West (Cornerstone Press, 2023). Much of her creative work is influenced by her work as a researcher/analyst on climate change, conflict, and migration with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. In addition, she is a winter wildlife docent at Point Reyes National Seashore and organizes the annual Reyes the Pen writing workshop. She is currently working on a poetry collection and multi-media exhibition about protected lands in the Western United States.

  • Dr. Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter- Honey & Bunny

    Photographer and Videographers

    Honey & bunny is an inter- and transdisciplinary (or call it crossdisciplinary) atelier for research and performance in Vienna. Basically we do EatArt and ClimeArt and therefore we develop (arts & science) positions by using video, photography, performance, publication and design. Among others, honey & bunny have worked for European Commission´s Joint Research Center, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Design Indaba in Capetown, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

  • Wilson U.

    Visual Artist

    WILSON U. (MZ) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, entrepreneur, and social activist. He has participated in research and various creative cultural activities. Research related to climate issues, such as gathering opinions and perceptions on climate change and natural resource management from young people aged 16 to 35 across Mozambique, through organised consultations, as part of the Clima de Mudança (Climate of Change) project. As an artist, he has had various artistic experiences, including solo and group exhibitions, as well curating his own exhibitions in Maputo. Namely: Sonhos (Dreams) at the Kulugwana Gallery in 2024; O Regresso at X-Hub in 2024; Por de Trás da Pele (Behind the Skin) at X-HUB in 2023; Powerful African Beauty at the 16 Neto cultural space in 2022; Garden Exhibition in 2021. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Meteorology from Eduardo Mondlane University – Mozambique. Currently, in addition to being involved in business practices and artistic productions, he is also pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering from the same University.

What is Care for you?

  • “From the cradle to the grave, care is a fundamental and innate aspect of being human. Reimagining the state of nature to include care breaks decisively with the defunct and dysfunctional model of homo economicus driven solely by self-interest and competition. Reclaiming care as an intrinsic human trait and as a foundation of society would constitute nothing less than a Copernican revolution—one urgently needed to confront the growing disconnection from ourselves, from one another, and from the rest of the living world that lies at the heart of humanity’s current existential crisis.”

    Céline Charveriat

  • “To care is to see the sacred in every being and act to protect it.”

    Eloïse Bodin

  • “For me, care is about our ability to listen and consider all living beings, beyond human beings, the recognition of our interdependencies and fragilities, which alone allows for an harmonious and peaceful cohabitation based on these connections.”

    Armelle Ledan

  • “Our current system normalises exploitation of people and nature: a caring society is one that promotes the wellbeing of all non-humans and humans, through valuing and celebrating care work, while reducing harmful overuse of resources in richer populations.“

    Kate Power

  • “I see care in the sense of the nurturing of people and planet, collectively supporting, repairing and regenerating, and standing defiantly in opposition to violence and depletion.”

    Clare Coffey

  • “To me, care means deep relationships – nurturing connections that encourage community, wellbeing, and a healthy relationship to the environment.”

    Sam Nester

  • “Care is one way among others to interact with our surroundings, maybe the one leading to the most trustworthy relations, whether it’s with a human being, an acacia or a stone.

    Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag

  • “Care extends beyond humans and beyond human scale, it is part of a wider ecosystem. Care can be as simple as the collaborative relationship between algae and fungi in lichen, where fungi express a pigment to protect algae from sun damage. Care is collaborative.”

    Penelope Cain

  • “Care is an essential element in art but also a driving force for coexistence. She sees art as a way to understand the world and created the idea ‘arts of vulnerability’. Caring for vulnerabilities, thus, is an agent of change in troubled times.”

    Margherita Pevere

  • “Care means ensuring the protection of rights and the physical, mental, and environmental health of all peoples and lands, so that current and future generations may live sustainably and thrive.”

    Heather Bourbeau

  • “Care – is our connection to the world. Without care, we would not survive. Care is humanism.”

    Dr. Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter- Honey & Bunny

  • "We live and create in an environment in which care is an essential benchmark for a prosperous future."

    Wilson U.

  • "Care means patience. It is to recognise the possibility of life in all things. Like the gardener waking up each morning to water the plants, giving the same attention to the small as to the large, with no aim beyond the simple act of watering and watching life unfold."

    Pierre Leturcq

Join the team

Interested in joining Prototopia? Whether you're an associate with valuable skills or an artist passionate about a greener, more caring future, we’d love to hear from you. Send your CV, a brief description of your contribution, and (if applicable) samples of your work to info@prototopia.eu. We're always open to growing our community.