Ahead of the UN climate summit COP21, organizers Ouishare and Open State wanted to deliver the proof of concept that a fossil-free, resource-efficient society can be build by citizen pioneers. POC21 was a 5-week innovation camp to build a new generation of sustainable products that are sexy like Apple and open like Linux. The camp brought together 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists and geeks. Late summer 2015, team and participants joined forces in a stunning french castle to prototype the fossil free, zero waste society. The ultimate goal was to overcome the destructive consumer culture and make open-source, sustainable products the new normal. Over the course of 5 weeks 12 sustainable lifestyle technologies were developed and resulted in an international community of innovators and supporters, that continues to grow.

Open State builds the prototypes and new narratives of a truly sustainable lifestyle. In their former life as campaign consultants and designers, the team has gathered over 10 years of experience in social change communications for Amnesty International, WWF, Ben & Jerry’s, the German Green Party or Wikipedia.

Ouishare is a think-tank, do-tank and global community of pioneers building a collaborative and open source society. Founded in 2012 as a non-profit, OuiShare has 20 local chapters in Europe, Latin America and North Africa, and organizes OuiShare Fest: an annual conference uniting 1000 collaborative pioneers in Paris.