Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian researcher, designer, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and executive director of Slow Factory, an institute and lab that transforms socially and environmentally harmful systems by designing models that are good for the Earth and good for people. She currently sits on Progressive International’s Council alongside Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy and has published in Elle, the New York Magazine and Teen Vogue. Her inter-disciplinary work at the intersection of fashion, climate, and politics has been covered by numerous news and fashion outlets.
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Open Edu Classes
Sustainability Literacy Class 1 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 2 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 3 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 4 with Céline Semaan
Waste-Led Design with Céline Semaan
Socially & Environmentally Responsible Cocoa Production with Céline Semaan
The Environmental Design of Olive Oil with Céline Semaan
Fashion And Colonialism with Céline Semaan
The Culture of Disposability: How did we make throwing good things away part of our culture? with Céline Semaan
Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Aja Barber, Liz Ricketts, Céline Semaan, Dounia Wone
Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with Céline Semaan, Sophia Li
Leather: Fashion’s Dirty Secret with Céline Semaan, João Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell
Designing Social & Environmental Justice with Antionette Carroll, Céline Semaan, Christine Platt
O‘ahu Water Crisis: Shut Down Red Hill! with Céline Semaan, Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile, Healani Pale
(Re)designing Corporations with Céline Semaan
Systems Literacy 101 with Céline Semaan
Inclusive Frameworks for Collective Liberation with Céline Semaan
Designing for Collective Liberation with Céline Semaan
Community Care Event with Céline Semaan
Slow Journal
Letter From the Editor with Céline Semaan
Slow is Beautiful with Céline Semaan
Building new systems in a broken world: Nurturing our web of Knowledge with Céline Semaan
On Applied Utopia: A Note from the Editor with Céline Semaan
On Palestine: An Open Conversation with Noura Erakat with Noura Erakat, Céline Semaan
Systemic Change is Difficult and Dangerous with Céline Semaan