The availability of traceable silver with a fair trade guarantee is still an unknown issue that raises many doubts in the jewellery sector. Starting from this uncertainty and with the purpose of providing useful resources on the path towards more ethical and sustainable jewellery practices, the third edition of our Dialogues on Responsible Jewellery will focus on exploring the silver’s subject.
The webinar will include two conversations with Florian Harkort, precious metals supplier (Fairever, Germany), and Nidia Pérez (Cooperativa Multiactiva Agrominera Iquira, Colombia). It will be hosted by Emilie Bliguet, Katja Jesek and Adriana Díaz H., jewellers and activists from the ORIGEN – Gold for Future collective.
Premiere on November 25, at 18:00 CET, in Spanish and English, on the YouTube channel of ORIGEN – Gold for Future. Subscribe to the channel and keep posted!
FLORIAN HARKORT
Florian Harkort is the founder and managing director of FAIREVER GmbH, a responsibly sourced precious metals supplier based in Leipzig, Germany. Their goal is to make gold & silver from responsible mining and fair trade better known and more easily available. In 2015, they became the first Fairtrade certified precious metals trader in Germany. In the same year, they launched the world’s first Fairtrade Gold Bars on the free market. Since 2016, they have been offering Fairtrade Gold Coins. Furthermore, since spring 2017, they are a Fairmined Authorized Supplier.
Dialogue in English with subtitles in Spanish.
NIDIA PÉREZ
Florian Harkort is the founder and managing director of FAIREVER GmbH, a responsibly sourced precious metals supplier based in Leipzig, Germany. Their goal is to make gold & silver from responsible mining and fair trade better known and more easily available. In 2015, they became the first Fairtrade certified precious metals trader in Germany. In the same year, they launched the world’s first Fairtrade Gold Bars on the free market. Since 2016, they have been offering Fairtrade Gold Coins. Furthermore, since spring 2017, they are a Fairmined Authorized Supplier.
Dialogue in English with subtitles in Spanish.
A co-creation experience
The main contents of this Dialogues on Responsible Jewellery new edition have been defined in a participatory way, including the questions and contributions from the people who joined the call to involve themselves in a shared experience aimed to find the answers that we need the most. In addition, in order to develop the issues that could not be included in this webinar, we continue investigating to delve into the socio-environmental effects of silver mining and the existing alternatives.
The Dialogues on Responsible Jewellery are a proposal by the ORIGEN – Gold for Future collective from Barcelona to enhance knowledge about the challenges and possibilities of this approach to jewellery that claims its potential to make a positive impact on human rights, the environment and the well-being of mining communities. A commitment, this one regarding to responsible jewellery, which begins by moving towards ethical materials from responsible mining and fair trade circuits, traceable throughout their cycle.
