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 4
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Method Laundry Detergent's Radical Innovation Wins International Design Excellence Award
Along with the great news that Method Laundry Detergent has just recently been launched in the UK (yes our clothes are already cleaner) we hear that Method's innovative pump action laundry detergent bottle has won
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Amazing Summer Pavilion Made from 200 Upcycled Speedo Swimsuits (Photos)
This amazing pavilion designed by students at Chelsea College of Art & Design has been on show during the London Festival of Architecture for the last couple of weeks. It is made from the unlikeliest of materials,
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Designing Out Waste in Industry Becomes a Priority for Big UK Businesses
This week a new report has been published by UK environmental think tank Green Alliance which unites top UK businesses on a mission to design out waste in industry. The report is called A Pathway To Greener Products and calls on the new coalition
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5 Sexy + Sassy Sandals for Summer (Photos)
Ladies, summer is now truly upon us, well it certainly is here in London, and tis the season to have fun with our feet, though not, we must add, at the expense of the planet or people. Happily there is a wide range of seriously stylish ethical footwear
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Don't Eat Food That Doesn't Rot - Michael Pollan's Food Rules (Book review)
Michael Pollan travelled to London this week to dish up his latest nourishing read, Food Rules - An Eater's Manual. This collection of home spun dietary advice, that was previewed in the New York Times last year, has now been published in the UK by
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Can We Use Biomimicry To Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says Yes
Yesterday in a sunny corner of London, a select group of UK journalists, myself included, were treated to an enrapturing few hours in the company of biomimicry guru Janine
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Architecture For Humanity Project Funded by Kid's Hot Chocolate Sales is Shortlisted for The Aga Khan Award
Congratulations are due today to Architecture For Humanity and their Design Fellow Susi Platt whose Yodakandiya Project in Sri Lanka has been shortlisted for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
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Cape Farewell to Show Film on Sundance Channel and Send Artworks Around The World (Photos)
The Cape Farewell project continues to spread the climate change message in brilliantly creative ways this week as their Unfold exhibition opens in Vienna today. Not in Austria? Never
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Cute Animal Bulletin Boards Deliver a Serious Reminder About Mass Extinction
Nobody likes being beaten about the head with the eco-stick. As many of us have experienced, railing against friends and family about the state of the planet rarely produces favourable results, or in fact any result at all. That's why TreeHugger is a
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Awe Inspiring Seed Cathedral Wows at Shanghai World Expo 2010 (Photos)
The fierce competition between showstopping pavilions is heating up in Shanghai as the opening of the
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What's it Like Living on a Sea of Ice? Arctic Surveyors Speak (Slideshow)
"Today I was caught out on the thin ice with my feet between two ice islands. I started to lose my balance, but as quick as a flash Charlie grabbed my harness and pulled me back."
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What's it Like Living on a Sea of Ice? Arctic Surveyors Speak
"Today I was caught out on the thin ice with my feet between two ice islands. I started to lose my balance but as quick as a flash Charlie had grabbed my harness and pulled me back. It's that kind of thing that gives you an amazing level of trust in your
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Ryan Frank's New Cork iPad, iPhone, Kindle + Laptop Sleeves for TAPE (Photos)
All images via http://ryanfrank.net/blog Apple fans must be rubbing their hands, and flexing their touch screen ready fingers, in anticipation as the iPad launch date swiftly approaches - April 3rd in the US. Predictably there will be an avalanche of
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Goodone Creates Sexy Figurehugging Knits for Upcycled AW10 Collection (Photos)
London Fashion Week may have finished a few weeks ago, but we're still enjoying the prospects of the AW10 ethical collections, such was the high quality on offer. Of course we loved Christopher Raeburn's and Ada Zanditon's amazing designs, but there was
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Upcycling Goes Mainstream: Britain's Biggest Retailer Tesco Teams Up with From Somewhere for New Fashion Collection
Hot on the heels of London Fashion Week there is great news for UK fashionistas on a budget. The fantastic label From Somewhere, whose founders Filippo Ricci and Orsola de Castro are also founders and curators of Estethica, is extending its sartorial
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Fabulous AW10 Fashion Week Highlights From Around The Blogosphere
It has been another fabulous season for ethical fashion and all of us green bloggers are delighted to see the ethical designers' collections going from strength to strength. From New York to London to Paris there have been some truly desirable fashion
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Co-opportunity by John Grant - Join Up For a Sustainable, Resilient, Prosperous World (Book Review)
We're excited to welcome British author and green marketing guru John Grant back to the top of our reading list. His latest offering 'Co-opportunity' invites us all to "Join up for a sustainable, resilient, prosperous world." In his recent Change
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London Fashion Week: Ada Zanditon Goes Bats with Echolocation AW10 Collection (Photos)
Of all the fantastic ethical fashion labels that we've seen over the last few seasons at the London Fashion Week Estethica show Ada Zanditon is without doubt the stand out talent in terms of drama,
