Exciting things we've been up to recently...
29.01.10 - 'The Butterfly Effect' featured in Co-opportunity by John Grant
We're delighted to say that the Creative Data pilot project 'The Butterfly Effect' has been fixed in ink on the pages of John Grant's (he of the Green Marketing Manifesto) new book 'Co-opportunity - Join up for a Sustainable, Resilient, Prosperous World'. It's all about how we need to work together at every level to find the right sustainable solutions for our future. Just incase you are wondering we feature on p.186! ;-) - get your copy from Amazon.
04.12.09 - Leonora presents at Cineforum conference in London
Cineforum - The Road To Ecotopia - creating a shared strategic vision for a sustainable future in a one day conference in London with speakers such as Hunter Lovins and Dianne Dionne Ridgley. Leonora presented in the Communities and Communication session, talking about the importance of engaging communities at both the global and local level to create capacity for change. Other speakers in this session during the day were eminent climate scientist David Wasdell and science-fiction expert Louis Savy.
13.10.09 - The Butterfly Effect is presented at Artists + Climate Change Conference at UEA
Leonora travels back to UEA in Norwich to present the outcome of The Butterfly Effect at the Sainsbury Arts Centre to the Artists + Climate Change conference organised by Norfolk arts educational team.
25/26.09.09 - Leonora interviews designers in the DeTnk TV Studio at Tent London
Having been interviewed by Max Fraser on the DeTnk TV sofa at the 2008 London design Festival, the shoe is now on the other foot, so to speak, as Leonora takes the role of interviewer and speaks to a selection of designers whose work addresses environmental issues in some way. Watch out for the upcoming interviews with Jair Straschnow, Alessia Giardino, Miska Miller-Lovegrove, Maxim Velcovsky and the Keep Cup team.
17.09.09 - Leonora gives gallery tour of the Radical Nature exhibition at The Barbican
3/7.09.09 - Leonora reports for TreeHugger from The Do Lectures in Wales
07.08.09 - Elio Studio works on collaborative submission for King's Cross Gasholder 8 Competition
05/06.09 - The Butterfly Effect featured on BBC Radio, TreeHugger, Greenormal + more
22.05.09 - Elio Studio + Tyndall Centre Launch CreativeData Installation The Butterfly Effect
05.05.09 - HEC Social Business Conference in Paris
"Dedicated to raising awareness about socially responsible business practices, HEC Paris is proud to host its 6th Annual Social Business Conference 'Our Decision Today, Our Impact Tomorrow' on 5-6 May 2009.
This event, hosted in partnership with Net Impact, brings together key corporate, not-for-profit and government decision makers, forefront philanthropists and the next generation of leaders from the international business school community."
Leonora took part in the panel discussion entitled 'Socially Conscious Services and Responsible Products: Sustainable design of consumer products' alongside Ralph Bremenkamp (Frog Design), Sara Pax (Blue Horse Associates) and Dr. Brigitte Monsou Tantawy, Associate Professor, HEC Paris. The moderator for the panel was Frédéric Dalsace, Professor, HEC Paris.
25.04.09 - WaterAid in Ethiopia article published in May issue of The Ecologist
For her journey to Ethiopia with WaterAid + Ecover in February 2009 Leonora was commissioned by The Ecologist magazine to write an article about the sustainable development model that the NGO uses when working with communities out there. The resulting piece 'Lessons on Water' is published in the May issue of The Ecologist.
23.03.09 - Interview for The Watering Hole video
Friend of Elio Studio Jenny Poulter interviews Leonora for a talking heads video about branding and sustainability for new communications agency The Watering Hole. Leonora's in good company talking alongside Sophie Thomas (Thomas Matthews), Lea Simpson (Unchained), Cyndi Rhoades (Anti-Apathy + Worn Again) and Jules Peck (Citizen Renaissance)
20.03.09 - Ethiopia WaterAid Slideshow on TreeHugger
In April 2008 WaterAid and Ecover launched a partnership to work in Ethiopia, one of the world's poorest and driest countries. With Ecover contributing £90 000 of funding over a three year period they aim to help 14,750 people gain access to safe water and sanitation. These are the images of Leonora's extraordinary journey with WaterAid in search of clean water in a land of drought.
08/14.02.09 - Ethiopia with WaterAid + Ecover
Leonora travels to Ethiopia with WaterAid and Ecover to report on the progress of their safe water and sanitation projects. The trip is a once in a lifetime experience that takes the group to the most rural areas of northern Ethiopia to witness the daily journey to collect water undertaken by women and children and the new sustainable technologies being used by WaterAid to make access to clean water and sanitation much easier.
03.02.09 - Wise Women Speaker Database
Leonora is now featured on the Wise Women Speaker Database set up by wise women Polly Higgins of Trees Have Rights Too.
30.01.09 - Awarded Funding by CUE East
Great news as Elio Studio's first design proposal is awarded funding by beacon for public engagement CUE East. The CreativeData project is a collaboration between Elio Studio (design), Lorraine Whitmarsh and Saffron O'Neill (social scientists) and Paul Munday (climate scientist) at the University of East Anglia in Norfolk. The research project about the impacts of climate change in the Norfolk Broads will conclude with an interactive installation in Norwich at The Sustainable Living Festival in May 2009.
05.12.08 - De Tank TV interview at Tent London
Max Fraser accosts Leonora as she's walking innocently around Tent London during London design Week, lures her into a TV studio and proceeds to interview her on camera - well there's a first time for everything!
15.11.08 - Pecha Kucha Barcelona Presentation
Leonora presents Kallari Chocolate story at Pecha Kucha Barcelona Vol.3. 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide is the strict format of the talks at Pecha Kucha. It's more challenging that you would think! See photos of the event organised by Petz Scholtus on Flickr.
20.10.08 - Biomimicry in Design at Schumacher College
Leonora is invited to report on a course entitled 'Biomimicry: New directions in sustainable design' from Schumacher College in Devon. The course is run by architect Michael Pawlyn, business coach Andy Middleton and Professor of Biomimetics Julian Vincent. You can read Leonora's articles on TreeHugger:
Lessons in Biomimicry - Part 1 Natural Forms
Lessons in Biomimicry - Part 2 Natural Systems
Lessons in Biomimicry - Part 3 Natural Processes
10.10.08 - Grand Designs Live Birmingham
Leonora speaks about energy saving products in the home for Best (Eco) Footprint Forward seminar at Grand Designs Live, Birmingham. Leonora presents alongside Max Fraser (chair), Lucy Bertenshaw (WWF), Joanna Yarrow (Beyond Green) and Pooran Desai (BioRegional Quintain).
15.09.08 - Birmingham City University's Big Debate
Leonora takes part in a panel debate about green strategies in the workplace at the ICC in Birmingham. Entitled 'Young Leaders or Green Saviours' the event is an interactive discussion about how young people in business can positively impact their working environments through sustainable initiatives. Leonora speaks alongside Lucy Siegle (Chair) , Max Fraser (Design Curator), Patrice John (Journalist) and Adrian Gahan (Climate Change Policy Adviser).
