Speakers & Moderators

Caroline Pultz is an interior architect, born in Liège, Belgium. Through spatial design, she explores the relationship between humans and their habitats, reimagining them as living ecosystems by leveraging gentle technologies, or low-tech solutions. From the very start of her career, she has been involved in ecological and innovative projects, notably designing furniture made from mushroom mycelium, a sustainable alternative to plastics and petrochemical-based insulation materials.

In 2018, Caroline discovered Corentin de Chatelperron through the ARTE series Nomade des Mers, which features a laboratory-catamaran sailing the world in search of low-tech innovations—a mission led by his association, the Low-tech Lab. Inspired by this initiative, she called for the establishment of a Low-tech Lab in Belgium. Since then, the first Belgian Low-tech Lab has been created in her hometown.

In 2019, she joined the Nomade des Mers crew, initially as a mycomaterials specialist for the Nomade des Mers series, and later as a permanent team member. She focused on integrating various low-tech innovations aboard the vessel, transforming it into a fully-fledged ecosystem boat that invites crew members to embrace a low-tech lifestyle directly on the sailboat.

After years of expeditions, Caroline collaborated with Corentin de Chatelperron to design and live in a low-tech ecosystem habitat in an arid environment, known as the Desert Biosphere. This four-month experiment in Baja California, Mexico, is documented in a web series and a documentary film.

Upon returning to Europe, they settled in the Paris region to explore how these innovations could inspire the cities of the future through an Urban Biosphere project. Alongside this initiative, they launched a citizen science program engaging over 400 participants in France and beyond, enabling them to test and adopt components of the Urban Biosphere in their daily lives.

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