After taking almost a month's vacation, Saynomode ecofriendly back with a note that links conservation and designs on their axis.
Ten renowned designers, ten items, ten regions: is the equation of an environmental institution to raise awareness of consumption that does not conflict with nature.
Despite being the most responsible for imposing the particular dynamics of the planet, or just for that, in the first world character voices are heard concerned about the direction taken and consumption design. A most telling data to appreciate the importance of the matter: 80 percent of a product's environmental impact stems from the design phase . Thus, starting from the idea that the designers they bear some responsibility, in them may also be the answer to a more responsible .
In this line of thought, the institution The Nature Conservancy environmental group invited ten designers to create objects with sustainable materials from around the globe. Wood, bamboo floors, wool and other organic materials from areas they are working to protect, serve to reveal, besides the beauty and treasures of this place, particular relationship of the population of those places with their environment.
( A designer, material and a region that protects the NGO. )> tenfold That equation gave birth to a sample, Design for a Living World , curated by Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, which opened at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of New York and this month began to roam the world, a book and conviction of the potential to work in harmony with nature.
:: Starting with the host country of the sample, United States, was an American, the designer Maya Lin, which is proposed to work with wood of red maple forest sustainably managed in the state of Maine. She devised a bench seat which is made up of certified wood lath form an uneven surface, corrugated and undulating, reversing the manner in which boards are generally used. also within U.S. territory, but this time in the state of Idaho, was the other designer, this time the textile and the Netherlands, Christien Meindertsma, which was requested to work with wool, a natural material and biodegradable and that many begin to take after being given a lot of momentum last year, declared by the FAO the year of natural fibers.
She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven, designed with a kilo and a half of wool (which is obtained on average with the shearing of a sheep), a carpet tile consists of eleven tissues using giant needles that she made and the shape of animal.
In Bolivia were carried out both using wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Miller himself, a partner at Pentagram, he designed a chair from cuttings in a plywood board with minimum waste and the possibility of being transported in a box and then assembled in their destination. For its part, Mexico's Paulina Reyes Kate Brand Spade wood combined with a fiber obtained from the leaves of palm, to create a series of handbags inspired by landscapes Guarayos indigenous lands in the department of Santa Cruz. For their part, Mexican received Hella Jongerious Dutch designer, famous for his creations to Droog and Vitra. She is not for less, became fascinated with a very original material, a kind of gum, latex plant in the Yucatan peninsula, in his study in Holland melted, molded, stretched in a thousand ways that became pieces of art- objects.
While it was in Costa Rica where one of the projects materialize with greater commercial potential. There the cacao, source of income for many indigenous pre-Hispanic times, it begins to be cultivated according to the criteria of Fair Trade. It was none other than Yves Behar, director of Fuseproject, who contacted the community that inhabits the park Bribi International Friendship, was engaged in creating a device for the ritual of cocoa. A device used to scrape the piece of organic cacao cooperative and simultaneously produces insert it into hot drinks. All in a pack made with other materials in the area.
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far north, he touched nothing less than the designer Isaac Mizrahi fashions mission to deal with the salmon. Is that in Alaska, another region where environmental NGO works this is one of the mainstays of the local economy, taking advantage of his flesh but skin tanned now to be reconsidered after the creation of clothes and objects. To encourage this new vision, Mizrahi created a beautiful dress and a coat.
Within the ultimate eco-friendly materials, which have always existed, but as this awareness is revalued in the world, bamboo was studied in the Israeli Ezri Tarazi. He'd had to travel to China, and the result was a seat and multiple operating systems as carriers for objects of daily use such as televisions, lights or computers. Although the potential of this organic, biodegradable and high growth, is huge and there are already many, beginning with the pioneering Colombian architect Simon Velez, who explore its many possibilities.
jewelry designer Ted Muehling was in the islands of Micronesia to work with vegetable ivory seeds and black pearls in a series of beautiful bracelets, necklaces and bracelets.
: Finally, another American, Stephen Burks, he had to travel to the rainforests of Gondwana in Australia, where he worked with aboriginal groups Noongar. Burks is recognized by a computer designed at low cost that would be accessible to all kinds of threads. In this case, worked with a community that lives by collecting plants and seeds that create medicines and natural products for skin care, along with those who created a series of devices, Totems, with regional timber harvest supply them , grinding and packaging of these products.
"Our goal with the exhibit is connect people with natural world, exploring the history of places and people through i design NNOVATION" says Mark Tercek, president of The Nature Conservancy.
"And opening a major dialogue between conservationists and designers on the potential legacy of natural materials, because choosing them they make a huge contribution towards the care of the planet," he concluded.
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