Yann Hamon 4:00 p.m., June 04, 2022
With its Future Trophies, Europe 1 rewards companies, associations or local authorities each year for their audacity, their innovation and their visionary side.
In the running for the Local Authorities Trophy in partnership with Business France, Glowee proposes to use the resources of the sea to light up cities.
Glowee is an environmental biotechnology start-up using the phenomenon of bioluminescence to illuminate cities.
It corresponds to the natural ability of living organisms to produce light.
The objective is therefore to create a lighting system for our cities that is more respectful of the planet, biodiversity and citizens.
Bacteria kept alive to produce light over the long term
Today, about fifteen people are working on the first pilot project of bioluminescence street furniture by developing a sort of aquarium.
They cultivate bioluminescent marine bacteria living healthy in fish or squid.
“We have worked to ensure that these bacteria are kept alive and produce light over the long term in order to be integrated into street furniture,” explains Sandra Rey, founder of Glowee.
Designing more desirable cities
Glowee intends to continue the development of this range of bioluminescent street furniture and thus support the uses of the city of tomorrow in France, in Europe and then in the rest of the world.
Sandra Ray wants to show communities and citizens that this technology “has potential and that it can integrate with us.
[…] This new philosophy of lighting has a much more poetic imagination to design more desirable cities.
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