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Flavia Amadeu is a Brazilian designer and social entrepreneur. She holds PhD in Design and Sustainability from the London College of Fashion, where she was part of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and an MA supervisor. Since 2004 she has been researching and designing with the coloured wild rubber from the Amazon rainforest called 'Semi-Artefact Rubber Sheet' (FSA) among other kinds of sustainable materials. She has worked in partnership with the Chemistry Laboratory LATEQ at the University of Brasília, WWF-UK, WWF-Brasil, SOS Amazônia, Sky Broadband UK, top model Lily Cole and UN Women, among local cooperatives. The focus of her work relies on supporting local communities, specially women, through collaboration on handcrafts and on the production of sustainable materials. |
Awards & Exhibitions
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Exhibition Fashioned from Nature at Victoria & Albert Museum
V&A, London, UK. April 2018 to March 2019. Design Exhibition 1st BSB City Design - Iconic designers fromBrasilia TV Tower mezanine, Brasília, Brazil. June to July 2018. Honorable Mention. The Brazilian Object 5th Award Museum A CASA, São Paulo, Brazil. December - January 2016. Floresta na Tupi. Tassì Brasil São Paulo, October to December 2016. Finalist at The Brazilian Object 4th Award Museum A CASA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 22/10/2014 - 19/12/2014 Brazil - Denmark Contemporary Jewellery Koldinghus Museum. Denmark. 24/08/2013 - 17/11/2013. Permanent exhibition at Eden Project Cornwall, England. Since 2013. Milan Design Week 2012 Brazil: Design, Inovação e Sustentabilidade Palazzo Affari ai Giureconsulti, Piazza dei Mercanti 2, Duomo, Milão, Itália. 17/04/2012 - 23/04/2012 Contemporary Jewelry Brazil-Dinamarca. Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo, 07/03/2012 - 06/04/2012 Jewels from Brazil Walford Mill Crafts, Stone Ln, Wimborne Minster, Dorset BH21 1NL, 14/01/2012 - 26/02/2012. Jewels from Brazil The Hub, Sleaford, UK: 12/11/2011 - 08/11/2012 Jewels from Brazil The Civic, Barnsley. Hanson St, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2HZ, UK 15/09/2011 - 04/11/2011. The British Insurance Designs Awards London Design Museum. 16/02/2-11 - 07/08/2011. Biennal Brasileira de Design 2010 Museu Oscar Niemeyer abriga a Reinvenção da Matéria, Curitiba, Brazil 14/09/2010 - 14/11/2010 The Architecture of the Object - Jewellery Exhibition. National Library of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil. 23/03/2010 - 08/04/2010 Between the Text and the Textile (Entre o Texto e o Têxtil: do nu ao invólucro) Fashion art installation by Flavia Amadeu and Fabíola Alves. ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 29th April - 20th May 2008. Organic Jewellery in Ana Barbieri's fashion show Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. 04/12/2007. Fashion Performance. Contemporary Poetics: in between fashion and art (Poéticas Contemporâneas - Entre a Moda e a Arte) ECCO - Contemporary Cultural Centre, Brasília, Brazil, 2007. Organic Jewellery and other accessories made of rubber by Flavia Amadeu at Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo Ecco, Brasília, Brazil, 17/04/2007. Artificial Emotion 2 Tania Fraga e Flavia Amadeu. Itaú Cultural de São Paulo, June to October 2004. |
