Céline Semaan

Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian researcher, designer, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and executive director of Slow Factory, an institute and lab that transforms socially and environmentally harmful systems by designing models that are good for the Earth and good for people. She currently sits on Progressive International’s Council alongside Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy and has published in Elle, the New York Magazine and Teen Vogue. Her inter-disciplinary work at the intersection of fashion, climate, and politics has been covered by numerous news and fashion outlets.

Contributor to:

Slow Factory Core Team

Board of Directors

Open Edu

Slow Journal

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Open Edu Classes

Sustainability Literacy Class 1 with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Sustainability Literacy Class 2 with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Sustainability Literacy Class 3 with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Sustainability Literacy Class 4 with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Waste-Led Design with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Socially & Environmentally Responsible Cocoa Production with Céline Semaan

Environmental Impact

The Environmental Design of Olive Oil with Céline Semaan

Environmental Impact

Fashion And Colonialism with Céline Semaan

Fashion & Beauty Politics

Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Aja Barber, Liz Ricketts, Céline Semaan, Dounia Wone

Regenerative Economics

Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with Céline Semaan, Sophia Li

Environmental Impact

Leather: Fashion’s Dirty Secret with Céline Semaan, João Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell

Regenerative Economics

Designing Social & Environmental Justice with Antionette Carroll, Céline Semaan, Christine Platt

Systems & Design Thinking

O‘ahu Water Crisis: Shut Down Red Hill! with Céline Semaan, Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile, Healani Pale

Environmental Impact

(Re)designing Corporations with Céline Semaan

Regenerative Economics

Systems Literacy 101 with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Inclusive Frameworks for Collective Liberation with Céline Semaan

Systems & Design Thinking

Community Care Event with Céline Semaan

Slow Journal

Letter From the Editor with Céline Semaan

Slow is Beautiful with Céline Semaan