Leonora Oppenheim
Leonora Oppenheim is a design storyteller. Which is a neat way of saying she uses word, image and form to portray local cultural, environmental and community stories to wider audiences. In short, she's passionate about provoking discussion and debate through creativity.
From working on plans for a chocolate factory with cacao farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon, to reporting on biogas toilets from the mountains of northern Ethiopia, to teasing out themes from the Do Lectures in West Wales, Leonora has many a tale to tell of her adventurous and inspiring encounters with creative minds around the world.
Leonora regularly puts finger to key to tell epic tales of design derring and sustainability do for online and print publications, and as director of design practice Elio Studio, she crafts her narratives in collaboration with architects, designers, curators and scientists.
Currently Leonora is focusing her energies on Creative Data, an initiative to design a series of conversations about future landscapes. Working in collaboration with climate and social scientists these interactive installations act as creative spaces for people to discuss local environmental issues in their own communities.
Leonora has lived and worked variously in Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona, New York and Quito. These days she's based in London, but continues to explore both locally and globally.
Latest Stories from Leonora Oppenheim - Page 2
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The Volvo Challenge: Or How We Attempted to Drive 850 miles on One Tank of Fuel
So this is where we ended up last week, dancing like crazy in our ski boots, on a blazingly sunny mountain top in the Tirolean mountains - Mark Ronson DJing in consummate style at
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Do Lectures Launch Snazzy New HTML 5 Site + Stellar Speaker Line Up for 2011
It's a double dose of exciting news from the Do Lectures camp today. In true double-barreled doing style they are launching their new super snazzy HTML 5 website to the world this afternoon, plus the speaker line up for Do 2011. The new site is
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The Volvo Snowbombing Challenge: Drive from the UK to Austria on One Tank of Petrol. Can We Do It?
At TreeHugger we totally dig examples of real world low carbon living solutions. While visiting the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm earlier this year, we saw how brands like Volvo, Siemens + Vattenfall are collaborating to
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Sculptural Energy Saving Lightbulb Wins Design of The Year Award
Great news from London today as the beautiful Plumen 001 bulb wins the overall Design of the Award at the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011. This CFL has been described as the world's first designer energy saving light bulb and
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One Tonne Life: Test Driving the Volvo C30 Electric Family Car (Interview)
Last month I was lucky enough to visit the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm to meet the Lindell family, who've embarked on a low carbon lifestyle experiment to radically reduce their carbon footprints from an average of
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Emiliano Godoy Teams Up with Ecoist for Cool Candy Wrapper Chair (Photos)
A great discovery over at designboom this week is a new design from Emiliano Godoy, one of our favourite thought provoking designers. Emiliano, he of the biodegradable golf tee and the Global Warming Rug, has teamed up with
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Greenland Play Dramatises Our Inept Responses to Climate Change
Plays about climate change are all the rage in London right now. What with The Heretic at the Royal Court and Greenland at The National playing simultaneously, it appears theater land is suddenly making a conscious effort to get involved in the climate
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Planetary Survivors: See The World Through Cockroach Eyes at The Science Museum
Well this is an entertaining idea. The Science Museum in London is offering tours of their climate, energy and space galleries from the perspective of a cockroach - costume and all!
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One Tonne Life: Interview with Project Architect Gert Wingårdh on His Energy Efficient Building (Video)
Last week the One Tonne Life project began in Stockholm and TreeHugger was there to meet the key players in this fascinating low carbon lifestyle experiment. To recap, the Lindell family have moved
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One Tonne Life: A Swedish Family's Green Lifestyle Experiment Begins
This week in Sweden an unprecedented low carbon lifestyle experiment has begun. The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy
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Incredible Sahara Forest Project Moves From Concept To Reality With Major Development Deal
There's great news for sustainable design innovation this week as the Sahara Forest Project gets backing from a development deal between Norway and Jordan. We wrote
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Nike's Better World Site: One Shoe Does Good, The Other Shoe Kicks Ass
Time was when it was difficult to write about Nike on TreeHugger without reminding everyone how blackened their ethical record was. Times have changed people. Being one of the biggest apparel companies in the world,
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Sleek + Clever Lamp Design Uses Loose Change to Save Energy + Money
Seriously effective and good looking eco-design is hard. We know, we've been at it for years. Every now and again, however, a design pops up that just nails beauty and efficiency in one perfectly elegant fell swoop. Today
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The Do Lectures' Bold Designer Posters Deliver Motivating Resolutions for the New Year
It's that time of year when, after days of lounging and eating and eating and lounging, we are struggling to get up from our oh so comfy sofas and get moving. 2011 is almost upon us - say goodbye to 2010, it's time to get
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Tough And Stylish: Road Testing the New Freitag Reference Collection Handbag (Photos)
Cool new green design is our thing at TreeHugger so we were delighted when those
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Atmosphere: The Science Museum Opens Amazing Interactive Gallery to Explain Climate Change (Photos)
We first heard about The Science Museum's new climate change gallery back in March this year when we read an exasperating report in The Times saying the museum was "revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to
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We Need More Trees: Greeting Cards by Petz Scholtus Celebrate 2011 Year of the Forests (Interview)
We love this join-the-dots co-creative design for a New Year's greeting card by our very own TreeHugger Barcelona correspondent Petz Scholtus. When not reporting for these very pages Petz is a product designer with a
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China's Walk More Drive Less Road Graffiti Campaign Wins Green Award Grand Prix (Video)
An ingenious piece of artwork created by Chinese pedestrians as they crossed the streets of Shanghai won the Grand Prix at the Green Awards in London last week. The awards, which also honoured Sir David Attenborough with a Life Time Achievement Award
