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 8
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Tweehive - Have you heard the Buzzzzzz on Twitter today?
Have you ever thought about being a bee for the day? No? Seriously? Oh come on... flying around collecting pollen, doing your waggle dance or building honeycomb? What about acting like a drone, just hanging out waiting to get it on with the Queen bee?
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Top 5 posts on the G8 Summit Across the Green Blogosphere
Calls for serious environmental leadership from the heads of state gathered at the G8 summit in Italy have rung out across the blogosphere this week. Here at TreeHugger Matthew McDemott implored Obama to live up to his promises, Grist got poetic about
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The Blogosphere's Top 5 Ways to Green Your 4th of July Celebrations
This week on TreeHugger we've been looking at ways you can make your Independence Day celebrations greener than the grass you'll be having your BBQ on. Avoiding carbon from BBQ's, vegan celebrations in Texas, fireworks and the environment, have all
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Cool It Schools Invites Positive Action From Young People Worldwide
Influential, powerful adults around the world are struggling to deal with the concept of climate change and what we should do about it, from big business to big governments there's a lot of umming and ahhhing going on. Frankly, it's time to bring in
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Natalie Imbruglia Invites Ecover + WaterAid Into Her Home (VIDEO)
The gorgeous + green musician Natalie Imbruglia got up close and personal about water conservation recently when she invited ecological detergent brand Ecover into her English home. In the short film Natalie talks about the benefits of Ecover products
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Daryl Hannah Gets Arrested + 5 More Activism Stories of the Week
In the week when Daryl Hannah and James Hansen were arrested for protesting against mountain top removal TH Blog Love gets all fiesty and goes out marching in the blogosphere to find 5 more green activism stories of the week. Click through to find out
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Safia Minney Awarded MBE; 5 More Green Fashion Stories of the Week
In the week when green fashion icon Safia Minney is awarded an MBE by The Queen for her services to British Fashion TH Blog Love waltzes round the blogosphere in search of 5 more stylish fashion stories of the week. Click through to enjoy our sartorial
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Green Fashion Icon Safia Minney of People Tree Gets Royal Seal of Approval
Many congratulations to Safia Minney, founder of pioneering ethical fashion label People Tree, on being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire this week. We have always been inspired by Safia's amazing work, which has
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Highline Opening, Biking During London's Tube Strike + 5 More Transport Stories of the Week
This week the public were finally able to walk on the beautifully renovated disused railway line that is the Highline in New York. On the other side of the pond abandoned railway tracks were also making headlines due to the Tube strike in London. As
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Pawlyn Astonishes Lomborg with Economics of Biomimicry + Restorative Design (VIDEO 3 of 3)
The diligence with which the Exploration team did their research for Michael Pawlyn's debate with Lomborg comes into full effect in this third and final part of the presentation at the British Council for Offices 2009 conference which took place in
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Pawlyn Continues to Amaze Lomborg With Power of Biomimicry + Restorative Design (VIDEO 2 of 3)
In Part 1 of Michael Pawlyn's presentation debate with Bjorn Lomborg at the British Council for Offices 2009 conference, he sets out to dismantle Lomborg's theory that it's impossible to cut carbon emissions and save money. Pawlyn makes a clear and
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Lomborg Caught off Guard by Pawlyn's Robust Argument for Restorative Design (VIDEO 1 of 3)
As you can imagine TreeHugger is always keen to hear of someone taking influential climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg down a peg or two, whether it's Stephen Colbert or Joe Romm or, as happened most recently, the British architect Michael Pawlyn of
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Cameron Diaz Saves The World and 5 more Green Celebrities of the week
This week Jasmin brought us Cameron Diaz's enviro-road movie with a stupidly over the top title, but with some genuinely good content under the hype, featuring green heavy weights Van Jones and Majora Carter - go Cameron! TH Blog Love is taken in by
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GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company working hard to promote responsible forestry
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Michelle Kauffman Closing News Prompts Search for Positive Green Architecture Stories
In a week when we heard the sad news that "the queen of prefab design and marketing" Michelle Kaufman is closing her business's doors due to difficulties posed by the economic downturn, TH Blog Love scours the blogosphere for positive green
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Ryan Frank Launches Spruce - A Smooth Companion for Isabella Straw Totem Stool
Since we gave you a sneak peek at Ryan Frank's Isabella stool last year the totem style stacking seating design has received a wealth of compliments, not only winning ‘Most sustainable product’ 2008/09 at the Hidden Arts annual
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Hay on Earth Develops Sustainable Solutions for Wales at Hay Literary Festival
Images via Hay Festival The Hay Festival, taking place this weekend, is one of the most respected literary and ideas festival in the world. Each year it plays host to great minds, writers, poets, and musicians who are creating inspiring work. Think of
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Max Gladwell Storms Green Blogosphere with 10 Ways, and More
In the week that Max Gladwell stormed almost every existing social media site with 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media we are awed by the power and speed of the blogosphere. In the spirit of positive social change here are 4 more fantastic
