Methodologies
supercycling
R&D
At a time when space debris draw the interest of nations with regards to strategic decisions about their treatment, marine litter is already the focus of debates and actions concerning its management.
In the dynamic of the acceleration of maritime strategies and ecologization of both production systems and means of locomotion, SCYGE offers guidance and support to help companies and institutions simplifying their methodologies and environmental assets.
Values &
contributions
Thanks to the savoir-faire of traditional netmending methods passed on by fishermen-netmenders, SCYGE, non-profit organisation, develops exclusive objects for individuals, companies and institutions. These products are designed and created from no longer usable fishing nets and abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), initially doomed to landfill site and burying. Our primary mission of handcrafted supercycling of these materials is complementary to the already existing industrial offer of chemico-mechanical recycling of synthetic trammel nets.
One of our top priorities, being a projects coordinator and solutions assembler, is the contribution, as much creative as scientific, to the modelling of products and operative methodologies, based on a system of sharing international experimentations and building tailored proposals.
Observation, process analysis and a pragmatic, respectful approach are the values that SCYGE puts into practice. We add up our experience and our engineering works to the service of innovative organizational projects and achievements. Guided by a confidentiality rigor, an applied research, we shape products that participate in the general education of environmental solutions and in safeguarding of French and international fluvial-maritime heritage.
Research
International
comparative
iconography
Faced with the rise in power of the oceans conservation global issues, this study was conducted by SCYGE, in the frame of the valorization of discarded fishing gears (ALDFG). Our attention was focused in particular on the occupation of fisherman-netmender, its sociology, its ancestral and universal traditions, its current needs and its capacity to provide responses to contemporary questioning.
Steming from a worldwide, historical comparative iconographic research on this craft, 10 thematics structure an answer under the form of a type of modelization for an innovative net mending area, internationally reproducible.
Ever since September 2020, SCYGE has been carrying out this worldwide daily monitoring task on the representation of the profession of fisherman-netmender and the know-how of their wives, which has allowed to collect more than 10,000 digital documents to date. This database together with our iconographic expertise related to fishery History are available to sea professionals, cooperatives, researchers, archivists and museums in order to enrich and share research.
Studies
“The fisherman-netmender, first ancestral stakeholder of fishing nets recycling and oceans protection”, socio-organizational study, published February 2022
Engineering and observatory thesis on the fishermen-netmenders’ gestural traditions and their needs for the layout planning and construction of a netmending area as a multimodal platform with technical, experimental, pedagogical and scientific vocation. Proposal of an organizational model titled « The Netmender Hut », adaptable to any fishing harbor and established as a network on international and french coastlines, generating a global observation post part of an environmental economic and societal approach.
Analysis carried out from the comparative iconography of the fisherman-netmender activity France-Worldwide and the field operational observation of current functioning of fisheries zones in the Baie de Seine (English Channel).
Author : Mathilde FUZEAU - Heritage of savoir-faire / Environmental strategies, 275 pages. Legal deposit on publication February 2022 © - ISBN : 978-2-9517669-1-4 / EAN : 9782951766914
Study 2023, currently under production
In order to question the organizational relevance of existing and future systems, the study focuses on the question of fishing tools. In particular, how History has shaped their function, their usefulness and their adaptability, from handicraft to industrial cadences.
Structural analysis
Observation of the port operations, of netmending areas on french and international shores and their connections with the new environmental realities.
How to accompany the narrative of the culture of adaptability reinvention, paired with a sustainable and profitable sea practices economy ?
Developments
Productions
“The Great Fishing Fair”, Mona Cara, 2021 prizewinner of ‘New Worlds’, a public commission from the Ministry of Culture in France, Conservatoire of Littoral, Center of National Monuments
“At the center of the story, a 8-meter-long weaving, “The trash Sea”, an unruly and deliquescent sea, prey to an underwater heat wave, welcomes wacky and abundant hybridizations, entangled in a large net. Around this main room gravitate, like visual occurrences, a trio of puppets, figures of power that one tries to fish out – or not: “The Dictator”, “The Madonna from Château of AC” and “The Balloon-man”. With a dual reading, the recto-verso weavings, falsely childish looking, invite you to be confronted with the hidden reality. Project carried out with the support and know-how of textile designers and craftspersons at Tissages de Charlieu, fishermen-netmenders from Le Havre and a metal craftsman from Hyères.” (translated from French)
Ministry of Culture in France - Mona Cara, The Great Fishing Fair
Technique : We had to assist Mona Cara in the idea that her jacquard textile work would end up in a real fishing net. A used trawl net patch was cut on a slant then stitched up to the main weave using netmending techniques, that were also employed to enable the hanging of the central body to the metal frame. SCYGE has coordinated the meeting between the artist and the professional fishermen-netmenders in order to share their know-how for the common purpose of raising awareness of ocean plastic depollution.
Contemporary art path “Sculptures on island”, City of Andrésy (Paris area): ‘The Bridge of Sighs - Plasticosis’, event inauguration on the Seine on May 31th, 2023
For it is important to link art and education, because it is fundamental to raise awareness of environmental issues « Land-Sea », artists Éva Habasque and Thierry Boutonnier seized on the subject of plastic litter polluting rivers, through a collaborative work.
Crossing the River Seine on foot, walking on an ecodesigned platform made of single-use water bottles and recycled fishing nets, aimed to symbolize the difficulty of our societies overcoming their vulnerability towards the dependance on plastics ; also a way to share with the general public the suspense led by this course between two states, the solid and the fragile, and to talk to us about the protection of waters and oceans.
Catalogue SEI, Andrésy 2023 - pages 12-13
Technique: SCYGE has designed and manufactured 20 rectangular gabions of 2-meter lengh each, made from used fishing nets collected right before landfill. The choice of a fine mesh netting has been preferred to enhance the lightness and buoyancy of the blocks, to permit a clear visibility of the bottles and ensure their retention into the chests. For the sake of not resorting to glues and adhesive tapes, netmending ancestral skills were applied for forming the boxes up into volume. Associations and volunteers participated in filling the elements with bottles and assembling the units together.
« "Tribute" clothing to everyday life and the world of work », Maroussia Rebecq "Upcycle Solution" Fashion Show, A Summer in Le Havre, 2023 edition, June 24th, 2023
“Stylist artist, Maroussia Rebecq was one of the first fashion figures to promote the idea of recycling, at a time when the big brands were not very interested in it. For the launch of the new season, she imagined a performance, in the form of a fashion show which will present to the public original creations imagined and made in Le Havre. The collection of these “tribute” clothes to everyday life and the world of work was created in April during workshops at the Hangar zero where the artist invited residents and professionals to co-design this new line, made up of tens unique clothes. Different know-hows are thus mixed, from the techniques of the sailor knots through knitting, gluing or the creation of accessories” - UÉAH.
Upcycle Solution Maroussia Rebecq - Un Été Au Havre
Technique: SCYGE participated in the performance of Maroussia Rebecq in the co-design of an original line inspired by the port town of Le Havre. The fishing professions and their tradition of netmending, which is the art of repairing fishing nets, had their place at the very heart of this collection, “the fruit of a reflection on circular economy”. A trawl collected before landfill allowed the creation of both accessories and a giant sweater cut inside a mimetic grids camouflage.
Organizational
consulting
& Product
innovation
Diagnosis and process creation
Organizational engineering
International partnerships
Environmental improvement
Guidance and training
Research & development
Design and objects-methods prototyping
Production launch, manufacturing/implementation monitoring