Lowering our impact, together.

maGnet pools the sustainable practices of film, audiovisual, festivals, visual arts and live performance. Everyone shares what worked for them, everyone draws on what others have tested — by craft, by sector and by impact category.

88 practices · 43 source organisations · 16 professions represented

By impact category

The categories shared by the sector's carbon calculators, so that practices plug straight into your estimates.

By craft and department

A department cuts across sectors: a set-reuse practice holds for a shoot, a theatre stage and an exhibition alike. It is the most useful way into the database.

By sector

Film, audiovisual, festivals, visual arts, live performance: the same impact categories, different constraints. The database earns its keep when they cross.

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Compostar los residuos orgánicos en el propio rodaje

Los residuos orgánicos del catering y de la base se separan y se compostan en el propio rodaje, en lugar de acabar en la fracción resto. Va acompañado de una planificación previa del volumen, el tipo y el número de conte…

Waste Catering Spain in Spanish

Sustituir toda la iluminación de un museo por tecnología LED

El museo sustituyó todas las luminarias del edificio por tecnología LED, en un proceso escalonado entre 2015 y 2021, sala por sala y sin cerrar al público. En un museo la iluminación no es solo consumo: condiciona la co…

Energy Electrical and lighting Spain in Spanish

Compartir con otras instituciones el transporte de obras de arte

En lugar de contratar un envío exclusivo por exposición, el museo agrupa el transporte de obras con el de otras instituciones siempre que es posible, y prioriza la supervisión virtual frente a los viajes de los correos q…

Transport Art handling and installation Spain in Spanish

maGnet puts good practices into circulation

A French festival and a German shoot often solve the same problem: here, what one has tested serves the other. The database brings together film, audiovisual, festivals, visual arts and live performance across several countries — what works on a set often holds for a stage, and the way a neighbouring country handles a constraint sheds light on your own.

Practices go live immediately. Moderation happens afterwards, on report, and is handled by the community lead for your country.

Interface language

The interface exists in French, English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian. It appears in your language on arrival, following your browser preferences, and the choice can be changed at any time; it is saved on your account.

Practices stay in the language their author wrote them in, so the detail that makes them usable is kept intact. Each one states its language, which also works as a filter, and carries the markup that lets your browser translate it when you need it.

Reuse the data

The whole database can be exported as CSV or JSON, under a CC-BY 4.0 licence, with authors pseudonymised. Exports follow the search filters: you can extract one professional community, one impact category, one country, or everything.

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