Ana Lisa

Ana Lisa

Ana Lisa Alperovich-O'Brien is a freelance curator, journalist and tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven teaching sustainability, biomaterials and bio design. She specialized in sustainable design & architecture and loves reporting from global design week events and writing architecture features. Born in Buenos Aires, she spent her 20s in London where she attended Goldsmiths University. Check out her website and Instagram.

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Make Your Own Cardboard World With the Amazing COOLS Kit

COOLS Kit is not a new piece of crazy-shaped furniture or recycled cardboard household object - it's an amazing...

Sustainable Materials,Recycled Materials,New Materials,green design events,eco textiles,Milan Design Week 2011,Design Academy in Eindhoven,plastic bags,precious waste,Michelle Baggerman

Precious Waste: Plastic Shopping Bags Recycled Into a New Durable Textile

Even if you bring your own fabric bag when picking up your weekly groceries, plastic shopping bags are difficult...

Recycled Materials,green resources,green home decor,Green Materials,green furniture,diy design, cardboard furniture, buenos aires design studio, argentina product design,biodegradeable furniture,recycled furniture design, Buenos Aires Architecture and Design University

Pomada’s Recycled Cardboard Furniture Gives Scrap Tubes a Second Life

We've featuredcardboard furniture here at Inhabitat loads of times before, but we love how this set of chaise lounges,...

green materials,green products,Green Transportation,Sustainable Materials,Urban design,bamboosk8 skateboards,banzai, buenos aires, Metropolitan Centre of Design in Buenos Aires, longboard skateboard

Banzai’s Eco-Friendly Longboards Swap Maple for Bamboo

Bamboo just seems to be the perfect wood alternative, particularly for building hot eco-friendly urban slide boards....

botanical design,Decorative Objects,DIY,container gardening,green furniture,Reykjavik,Icelandic design,acrylic,plexiglass material,Dagný Bjarnadóttir, FurniBloom, DesignMarch,2011 Stockholm Furniture Fair,shanghai world expo 2010,growing furniture

Grow a Lush Green Garden Inside Your Furniture With FurniBloom

Looking for a fun alternative to your home or office's drab and lifeless seating? Then take a cue from the FurniBloom...

Green Transportation, green products, eco travel, abici italian bikes,italian design, velocino bike, italian history, second world war,bicycle concept vehicle,

Abici Launches Ultraportable Update to Historic Italian Velocino Bicycle

Italian manufacturer Abici just launched their Velocino, a charming re-design of a bike first commissioned by Mussolini...

Recycled Materials, Green Lighting, green packaging, Green Materials, folding lamp, chilean design, Paloma Agliati, molde, mobile design gallery

Brilliant Recycled Cardboard Plamp! Lamp is its Own Packaging

Chilean designer Paloma Agliati's Plamp! lamp is a blooming pendant light made entirely of recycled, recyclable,...

Jose Agatep’s Beautiful Repurposed Bottles Terrariums are Self-Contained Ecosystems

Artist Jose Agatep gathers glass containers of various shapes and transforms them into incredible terrariums filled...

green products, Swedish green design, eco lamp, solar salt, compostable green consumer product design, Apokalyps Labotek, Crystal Lamp, Chinese Stonecutters, green lighting, green materials

Brilliant Salt Crystal Lamp is Grown in a Bucket

Swedish designers Apokalyps Labotek mixed chemistry with innovation to create a crystalline lamp made almost entirely...

bamboo architecture, tyin tegnestue, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Safe Haven Orphanage, eco library, bath house, thai orphanage, thai architecture, locally sourced materials, outdoor toilet, teak wood

Norwegian Students Build Airy Bamboo and Teak Library for Thai Orphans

Looking for more than a vacation in southeast Asia, an amazing set of young, skilled students from Norway set out...

green furniture, Botanical, Elm tree, Dutch Elm Disease, green materials, Locally-sourced, Stockholm, Stockholm Furniture Fair, sustainable ikea, touring exhibition, tree trunk bench, ung8

Gigantic Tree Trunk Benches Made From Recovered Elms Pop Up in Stockholm

Designer Lies-Marie Hoffmann recently dropped a series of sculptural benches made from Elm-trunks throughout the...

Argentina, Buenos Aires designer, Recycled Materials, Green Transportation, Green products, Bike in style, Bicycle concept vehicle, Bike basket, Monochrome bike

Classy Monochrome Two-Wheelers Made From Old Recycled Bike Parts

Here at Inhabitat, we just can't seem to get our fix when it comes to bikes! We've covered everything from cute...

Alvisilkchair is an Eco Chair Inspired by Traditional Looms

Designer Asa Karner of Alvi Design recently unveiled her Alvisilkchair at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. The beautiful...

adobe building, Biodegradable, biologiska, copenhagen design week, Sweden, stockholm Furniture Fair, Biologiska Museum, Karin Auran Frankenstein, swedish design, green design, biodegradable materials, poo design, dung design, adobe design

Frankenstein’s Curious Biodegradable Designs Are Made of Sand, Water and Poo

Natural, local, long-lasting, cheap and biodegradable - adobe just seems to be the perfect sustainable material...

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