Our Observations
As a result of our growing ecological and environmental awareness, we've come to realise the obvious.
A dramatic observation about the world of events, which can be summed up in a few words :
• a linear economic model: production, use, destruction,
• an unreasoned approach to design.
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ANALYSE AND DIRECT THE REAL NEEDS OF THE CUSTOMER
We analyse the real needs of our customers, whatever their industry or size, in order to give meaning to our responses:
1. Deciphering the brand's DNA and brand equity at a given moment.
2. Definition of the objectives sought:
- New markets,
- Adaptation of the offering in line with customer feedback,
- Creation of a corporate image that respects the environment and society,
- Support for the development of positive-impact projects.
Our strengths:
our ability to listen, our comprehensive knowledge of the current economic and social environment, and our tailored marketing proposals.
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ACTING ON RAW MATERIALS
We pay particular attention to our choice of raw materials.
Our strengths :
- Waste management right from the design stage. Anticipating our consumption of materials from the outset,
- Pre-selecting non-polluting, bio-sourced and/or re-used materials (catalogue of specific materials),
- Drawing up a partner charter to ensure that our commitments are respected.
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ACTING ON WASTE
We are committed to reducing and recovering as much as possible of the waste generated during a project.
Our strengths:
- Reuse (extend life),
- Reuse (avoiding the manufacture of new elements),
- Recycle (transform into a new raw material),
- Energy recovery (new energy via combustion or methanisation).
- Storage
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For KF, an application in 3 stages:
1. The design phase:
Make way for eco-design. Designing with control over raw materials and identifying recycling channels upstream.
2. The manufacturing phase :
Involve the manufacturer in the process to ensure control over the supply of the right raw materials for production (calculating throughputs) and the management of the waste generated.
3. The installation phase:
This is now an assembly phase rather than a construction phase on site. A sorting area will therefore be defined on the site, identifiable by clear signage.
Going even further:
Researching and identifying on-site recovery channels and reducing the carbon impact of transporting our waste.
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RESILIENT DESIGN
What is resilient design?
Intelligent design principles:
simplifying design, reintegrating people, adventure and life.
- Towards modularity, reuse, assembly without on-site transformation,
- Towards identifying all the materials used in a project and anticipating their end-of-life,
- Towards projects that are well thought out from the outset, that are easy to assemble, dismantle and store, and that can also be used in part in other concepts (decorating company reception halls, meeting rooms, etc.),
- Towards projects carried out in close collaboration with technical operators committed to the same approach (thinking together about supplies, dimensions, technical plans and layout plans).
To projects carried out in close collaboration with technical operators committed to the same approach (thinking together about supplies, dimensions, technical plans and manufacturing plans to optimise material supplies and reduce waste).
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
KF is part of a circular economy model.
Our strengths :
- Use of recycled, upcycled or transformed furniture instead of rented items,
- Use of construction and decoration elements that are based on the 3Rs (reuse, repair, re-use) and/or are recycled,
- Creation of a solid network with local or national SSE and circular economy structures,
- In the context of an events project, give preference to hire rather than purchase if the service provider is committed to Sustainable Development approach.
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CHARTER OF GOOD OPERATIONAL CONDUCT
KF has a written charter of good conduct both internally and with each external party involved in a project, which includes:
1. Raw materials
Choice of materials that are renewable, recycled, recyclable, local, do not come from endangered ecosystems, do not generate hazardous waste, have no impact on the health of users and occupants.
2. Manufacturing
Choosing clean technologies, reducing production-related emissions by using fewer materials. Favour renewable energy or transitional factories.
3. Transport
Optimise packaging, optimise logistics, optimise the capacity of a transport vehicle and implement logistics strategies (transport, delivery, storage).
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CHARTER OF GOOD CONDUCT HUMAN CAPITAL
KF is committed to preserving human capital, respecting working conditions and supporting integration companies.
How?
- By ensuring compliance with the labour code: time spent, legal time slots, compulsory rest time or after a subject or night shift, appropriate remuneration, payment of overtime, checking good working conditions in the workshop and on site, checking good living conditions when travelling,
- Use of integration structures (e.g. ESAT etc.),
- Use of local structures.
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TOWARDS A REAL INTERACTION
KF advocates encounters and relationships. Its aim is to break down barriers and open up to encourage exchanges.
Our strengths:
- To get back to the very essence of events by enabling visitors to meet, get together, discover and learn,
- Overcoming the current trend towards secrecy, confidentiality and competition,
KF is now opting for a design and spaces with open concepts, conducive to wandering around while following a defined and well thought-out itinerary. KF emphasises the idea of the public square, the "Res Publica", the agora, a simplified place dedicated to encounters,
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TOWARDS PURE AESTHETICS
KF's new design signature, pure aesthetics, stripped of all frills.
Our strengths:
- Moving closer to "Low Tech" principles: combining design and frugality, using simplified or even traditional techniques,
- Back to functionality: designing to meet real needs, with no superfluous functions. Going for the essentials,
- A design without stylistic effects, which will add to the life expectancy of the product or space. Without strong markers, it is not anchored in an era or a style, so it goes out of fashion less quickly.
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TOWARDS THE RETURN OF LIFE
KF deconstructs codes in order to put the human, the living, back at the heart of its projects. Beyond design, we want to tell the story of our partners and our project.
How do we do this?
- By directing our customers' communications towards collective statements, dealing with fundamental issues,
- By conveying impactful issues, rather than purely commercial meetings,
- By proposing methods to support companies with missions, and structures sensitive to SD (Sustainable Development) and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility).