Thursday, December 2nd – Friday, December 3rd
11am – 2:30pm
Irma’s at W South Beach
Hosted over two days at W South Beach, during this year’s Miami Art Week, Surface and Nespresso will drive a wide-reaching conversation around sustainability that highlights the solution-driven work of change-making artists and designers, identifies the challenges still confronting us, and forecasts what the future may hold.
Thursday, Dec. 2
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Nespresso x Surface Café Talks No. 1
Designing a better future for cities in the era of climate change: innovative new projects and concepts are providing a glimpse of how we solve global warming’s most pressing problems.
Discussion with Ximena Caminos, Shohei Shigematsu, and Dror Benshetrit.
Moderated by Surface senior creative editor Nate Storey
Please RSVP here.
Location: W South Beach
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Nespresso x Surface Café Talks No. 2
Artists fighting against environmental degradation: the power of art and design in the fight against climate change.
Discussion with Studio Drift co-founder Lonneke Gordijn and conceptual artist Loris Gréaud, ambassador for the Sense of Silence Foundation.
Moderated by Surface senior editor Ryan Waddoups.
Please RSVP here.
Location: W South Beach
Friday, Dec. 3
1:30 – 2 p.m.
Nespresso x Surface Café Talks No. 3
How to solve the dilemma of products and consumerism: the plastic waste crisis, recycled and sustainable materials, and the promise of 3D printing.
Discussion with Jane Abernethy, chief sustainability officer at Humanscale and Tomas Vera, Creative Director at Verdi Design
Moderated by Surface senior creative editor Nate Storey.
Please RSVP here.
Location: W South Beach
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Nespresso x Surface Café Talks No. 4
The long-term sustainability of Crypto and NFT art, and the promise of eco-friendly blockchains and NFTs.
Discussion with Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, digital art collector and cofounder of the sustainably-minded NFT marketplace Aorist, and new-media artist and designer Refik Anadol.
Moderated by cultural entrepreneur Ximena Caminos.
Please RSVP here.
Location: W South Beach