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  • The future in “By VOLTA” vision – speaking with Olivier Bergeron – CEO and Creative Director By Volta

    The future in “By VOLTA” vision – speaking with Olivier Bergeron – CEO and Creative Director By Volta

    They anticipate things to come and create an exciting future. 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair gathered the visionary talents in the “Prospective Innovation Space”. This section of the Parisian event dedicated to sustainable luxury development allowed visitors to grasp the planetary challenges ahead, through prospective, inspirational and discovery installations.

    An interview taken by 2LUXURY2 during 1.618 Sustainable Luxury Paris. A full article regarding “By Volta ” here:
    http://www.2luxury2.com/2012/03/smart-cocoon-prospective-innovation-space-at-1618-sustainable-luxury-fair


    From surface to interface, sensitive developments focused on digital innovation.
    The ByVOLTA agency, created in 2004 by Olivier Bergeron, now brings together a variety of skills and disciplines revolving around architecture, creativity and design to conceive living places, bringing them to life around original approaches tying in multi-sensory concepts and interactive systems with the sustainable staging of spaces.

    ByVOLTA allows companies to imagine and give substance to projects where technological and digital integration takes up a special place. Sensitive and interactive design, sensory marketing… ByVOLTA approaches these different themes while guaranteeing fluidity and operational simplicity. In 2009, the agency in fact signed a ten-year warranty contract which covers its architectural and digital productions, certifies its operating modes and insures state-qualified architecture for all projects.

    The CEO and creative director of ByVOLTA, Olivier Bergeron, is a former political journalist, a travel reporter, fascinated by new technology and its resulting urban and social issues. In 2000, he intervened as a consultant on different research and development projects for communication groups. Within this context, he contributed to the foundation of sensory marketing and sensitive design (production of interactive furniture) and is currently involved in setting up a research consortium in the subsidised fields of “Serious Gaming” or “Tic et Ville Durable”
    (Communication information technology and the sustainable town).

  • Smart Cocoon: Prospective Innovation Space at 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair

    Smart Cocoon: Prospective Innovation Space at 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair

    They anticipate things to come and create an exciting future. 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair gathered the visionary talents in the “Prospective Innovation Space”. This section of the Parisian event dedicated to sustainable luxury development allows visitors to grasp the planetary challenges ahead, through prospective, inspirational and discovery installations.

    The By Volta agency, specialized in sensory design, has thought up a participative area, together with Spirops (artificial intelligence software) and Bakasable (interface designer).

    By Volta presented a new installation “Smart Cocoon”. This playful voting area questioned the visitor: each time an object or project is approved by the public, a green avatar will materialize and go up to the object in question. A red avatar will appear after critical votes. On the last day of 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Event all the avatar came together and announced the public’s favourite object.

    By Volta presented also Mateo street furniture made in collaboration with Jakob + Marfarlane and What Time.

    Half-plant, half tree, Mateo is an urban furniture, at a time sensitive and interactive. It creates a microclimate. Its digital foliage offers comfort, diffuses sound and light thanks to the energy it captured during the day. The creators of this urban furniture say that Mateo is responding to the enviroment and climate change, offering the best conditions for rest in the city. During summer it brings fresh and cool air, while in winter it offers heat and shelter. These city spots that host the imagination like a child’s hut invite to the slowness and contemplation, offering a city break, a lock decompression, in a place focused only on speed and performance.

    The Smart-system company – an entity created to give birth to ideas and encourage the swift emergence of innovative projectors in the sector of creative economy- also offered during 1,618 Sustainable Luxury Fair a selection of projects. In the entire event, the Smartsy app, created by Smart-system, offered visitors detailed information on the different exhibitors.