Petz Scholtus
Petz left Luxembourg in 2000 to study eco-design at Goldsmiths College in London, trying to figure out what it’s really all about and how green she could make things. Her work took her from London to the small Tanzanian island Pemba, the Netherlands and to Barcelona where she has been working as a freelance eco designer since 2004, and writing for TreeHugger since 2005. Some of her design projects are the StuffBump and We Need More Trees cards.
Petz believes in design for people, planet and profit, connecting people and eating local food. She loves simplicity, good design and fairness, making practical and fun things, bringing people together (the more the better), travelling, speaking 5.5 languages, scuba diving, the Eden Project in Cornwall, open air parties, and her wormcompost on the balcony.
Apart from designing sustainable products, services and concepts, Petz is also a teacher at various design schools, (re)started the eco-design network o2Spain with some friends, founded the R3project, brought PechaKucha Nights to Barcelona in 2008 and launched the Barcelona Green Map.
To see all of Petz's work, visit her studio Pöko Design.
Latest Stories from Petz Scholtus - Page 7
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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the
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Ferran Adrià 's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Emissions with Architect Enric Ruiz-Geli's Smartgrid
Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,
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Moss in a Pot! Small is Beautiful; Gardens by The Clorofilas (Photos)
Would you like a cup of moss? It's lush green, fluffy, and alive! Barcelona-based Jeanette Ramirez has been experimenting with moss for quite a while. She started by collecting moss around the city, reproducing it using
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Not Made in China, Designer Guillem Ferran Proves a Point with Products Made from Used Pallets (Photos)
Here is a series of objects with the unusual label "not made in China". The Catalan designer Guillem Ferran, whose Where Memory Used To Sit chair collection, Distendido and La Pell leather project we wrote
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New Soap, Old Bottle. Detergents now come in a Heineken, Coke or Dr. Pepper Bottle
Researching innovative packaging solutions the other day, I stumbled on New Soap, Old Bottle. Similar to this green way of drinking (old bottles, fresh wine), Scott in the States sells new liquid soap packaged in old plastic bottles. That way, he saves
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Eco Reminders; Wall Stickers with a Poetic Message Help You Get Rid of Bad Habits (Photos)
Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just
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Dirty Rags; from old uniforms to funky object (Photos)
What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban
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Nudge, the New Eco Lifestyle Shop in Helsinki, Has Opened Its Doors
I wish there was a Nudge in every city. It's a whole new way of shopping, or actually, it's not just about shopping, but rather about living, and style. Nudge is the new eco lifestyle experience, which consists of a shop, a
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Exclusive Preview: Urbikes Trapper, the First Intelligent Electric Public Bicycle Sharing Systems
What characteristics should the perfect public bicycle have? A minimum of mechanical maintenance, maintenance-free shaft transmission, solid tires to avoid punctures, a theft-free design and an
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Less is More: How a few sticks create elegant coat racks (Photos)
Inspired by Japanese Kimonos, the coat racks by the German company Noi are sculpture-like structures made from minimum amount of materials. The different wooden objects are all sticks; no need for screws, glue or other fasteners to hold them up. They
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Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)
Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis, a "shared habitat" in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social interaction between inhabitants, propose a new type of
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)
Around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, over a third of which live in care
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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Seed Sprouters: Easy to Use & Simple Designs
I love fresh sprouts all year round; they are healthy and taste great on toasts, in salads and in soups. However I don't like ugly, bulky and over-designed objects in my kitchen in order for the seeds
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Valencia Design Week 2010: Only 1ºC! Mina Kwag's Design Products Raise Awareness About Climate Change (Photos)
I came across these cute cups at the Designboom Mart at the Valencia Design Week last week. Not at all doomsday products, Mina Kwag's designs are fun and useful, and yet, they let you know that something isn't quite right. The
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Valencia Design Week 2010: NUDE, Young Designers Show They Care (Photos)
We visited Nude at Habitat Valencia (part of Valencia Design Week) and found some refreshing new ideas that are also a little less harmful to the environment. These are the three young
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Valencia Design Week 2010: The Three Little Pigs, a Cardboard Fable (Photos)
Here's a fun installation by Spanish design studio Sanserif Creatius, called The Three Little Pigs. It is a fable about the value of the materials with which we design. Exposed in the
