Coral resilience

Combining art, science and industry to restore coral reefs.

corail résilience à Nausicaa

One of the first projects to be incubated in Nausicaá's Blue Living Lab is Jérémy Gobé, a visual artist who has developed his Corail Artefact project with the ambition of combining art, science and industry to restore coral reefs.

A second phase of the RDI (Research, Development and Innovation) Coral Resilience programme will be taking place in the Coral Action area at Nausicaá. This new phase of the programme will test star-shaped modules which, when fitted together, will form a coral tree, ready to receive cuttings.

This experiment will be carried out in an aquarium at Nausicaá and also in a natural environment in Colombia.

The project is supported by the Nausicaá Endowment Fund and is being carried out in collaboration with the Polynesian Institute of Biomimicry (IPB).

An initial test phase at Nausicaá

The incubation of the Corail Artefact project at Nausicaá's Blue Living Lab in 2021 enabled an initial test phase in the aquariological reserves on the ecological systems created by Jérémy Gobé for coral restoration: cutting supports and reception structures made using 3D printing and lace to support coral larvae.

The first phase took shape with the exhibition of a structure in an immersive capsule in the French pavilion at the 2021 Universal Exhibition, in collaboration with Lille 3000.

Second test phase, in the natural environment

The adventure continues in 2025 with Nausicaá and the support of the Endowment Fund to follow the evolution of the artist's project, Corail Résilience.

A new structure, this time made up of star-shaped modules that fit together to form a structure of variable size, will be installed in the Nausicaá exhibition, ready to receive the coral cuttings that will have grown in reserve.

The expertise of Nausicaá's teams, combined with the field experience of the Polynesian Biomimicry Institute, will support a large-scale test programme in the natural environment in Colombia.

By combining know-how and skills, we can hope to create sustainable solutions for the restoration of coral reefs, which are essential to marine biodiversity.

An original combination of art, science and innovation to help preserve marine ecosystems.

A work of lace

The use of lace as a means of capturing and attaching coral larvae is innovative, enabling the formation of new corals without the need for cuttings. The lace to which the coral larvae have attached themselves will be deposited on the star structures to form a new reef.

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