Women design flash news

Vespertine, safety-wear, by Sarah Canner

Ingrid Vaca Diez is a Bolivian lawyer who devotes her life to build homes with plastic bottles. Everyone thinks she is an architect, but she’s not: educated to the social issues by her father (7 times mayor of Warnes, the village where she operates), Ingrid founded an association of volunteers that, hardly working together, build houses for the sustainable project “Casa de Botellas” recycling plastic or glass bottles, filling them with sand or other waste materials and keeping them together with a lattice structure mixed with cement. Coating is made of linseed oil, expired powder milk and cow’s blood: green architecture in all respects. This makes it possible to build houses with low environmental impact to poor families at a very low price, in Bolivia and in some other South American regions where the project is taking place (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay).

Bottle house, Ingrid Vaca Diez

The German designer Emelie Ernsting has created a wonderful sofa with which face the winter: the Moody Nest, a real wraparound nest able to be simultaneously sofa and quilt. To be registered in the chapter: “Things you’ve always wanted without knowing it.”

Moody Nest, by Emelie Ernsting

Maria Westerberg, young Swedish designer, won the Green Furniture Award 2011 with her T-shirt Chair, a chair made with old t-shirts, or curtains and linens that are no longer usable for their original purpose, twisted together to form a soft and colorful chair.

T-shirt chair, by Maria Westerberg

Alexandra Meyn, 33 year old, just graduated in Interior Design after a Master in Economics, given the difficulties encountered in the job world, has decided to catch the media attention through the realization of a completely sustainable tree-house, and going to live in it: 400 dollars cost, 100% recycled materials, construction techniques honed, goal achieved (both New ork Times and the NY Daily News have talked about her).

Brooklin tree-house, by Alexandra Meyn

The U.S. fashion designer Sarah Canner has launched the line called “Vespertine”: reflective tops … but covered with feathers and sequins. Trendy jacket with a life-saving purpose for those who decide to ride after dark.

Vespertine, satefy-wear, by Sarah Canner