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In January 2024, in the framework of the SEA BEYOND educational program, Prada Group announced a partnership with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries without Borders), the international non-profit organisation that aims to facilitate access to ocean education for children and young citizens in vulnerable communities through the Ideas Box.
Designed by Philippe Starck in 2014, the Ideas Box is a mobile multimedia center of over 100 square metres, equipped with internet connection, tablets, laptops and over 250 books and games, as well as hundreds of training materials.
THE SEA BEYOND IDEAS BOX
In June 2024, at the first Ocean Literacy World conference held in Venice, the first SEA BEYOND Ideas Box was presented, with the aim of facilitating access to education for children and young citizens in vulnerable communities. In celebration of the Ideas Box’s tenth anniversary, Philippe Starck and Patrick Weil, Founder and President of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, told the story of its inception.
The contents of the media centre were curated by UNESCO's ocean literacy team in collaboration with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières to raise awareness of the importance of ocean preservation among the younger generations and a selection will also be integrated into those already operating in metropolitan France and overseas regions (8 Ideas Boxes), Burundi (4 Ideas Boxes) and Ivory Coast (6 Ideas Boxes).
«The new partnership with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières is the first humanitarian project within SEA BEYOND; we want to inspire new generations, making them aware of the importance of the ocean and the need to preserve it and we want to do this by leaving no one behind.»
LORENZO BERTELLI, Executive Director of Prada Group and Patron of the Ocean Decade Alliance
«We are very excited about this partnership with SEA BEYOND. Education is a fundamental human right and the benefits of scientific advancements should not be limited to the few. Prioritizing this challenge and giving access to ocean education is a matter of social justice, ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to be informed about crucial environmental issues, become familiar with the ocean, and realise their potential as citizens.»
PATRICK WEIL, Founder and President of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières
«Bibliothèques Sans Frontières brings peace to the world for those who have lost it. Bibliothèques Sans Fontieres brings hope through dreaming, intelligence, culture and education. SEA BEYOND has that same goal of peace and intelligence, but for the 71% of the rest of the world that is the ocean.»
PHILIPPE STARCK, French creator
After the Venice event, the SEA BEYOND Ideas Box was donated to Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli of Naples and stops were programmed at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Fondazione Terzoluogo Cultural Space of Sant’Anna a Capuana and in East Naples area in collaboration with Maestri di Strada Onlus - Centro Polifunzionale Ciro Colonna, as well as the islands of Ischia and Procida, in collaboration with the Area Marina Protetta Regno di Nettuno.
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