Flavia Amadeu
Flavia Amadeu is a Brazilian jewellery, fashion, and product designer, researcher and design consultant.
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She holds PhD in Design and Sustainability from the London College of Fashion, where she was part in the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and also an MA supervisor.
Since 2004 she has been researching and designing with the coloured rubber called 'Semi-Artefact Rubber Sheet' (FSA), which is produced locally by rubber tapping communities in the Amazon Rainforest, mainly in Acre and Pará States. She has worked in partnership the the Chemistry Laboratory LATEQ at the University of Brasília, WWF-UK, WWF-Brasil, SOS Amazônia, Sky Broadband UK, top model and actress Lily Cole and UN Women, among local cooperatives and government. The focus of her work relies on supporting local communities through collaboration on handcrafts and on the production of materials. FLAVIA AMADEU Design is about transformation. From flat cuts to three-dimensional volumes. From lively wild trees to women social inclusion in the rainforest. From raw material to technological innovation Holistically, design from deep nature to high-end sustainable fashion. |
Awards & Exhibitions
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Honorable Mention. The Brazilian Object 5th Award.
Museum A CASA, São Paulo, 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. |
Sustainable Products
Sustainable ProductsJewellery, Rubber Shoes, Ceramics and other products designed and supported by FLAVIA AMADEU
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Design Consultancy
Exclusive collections, projects on social responsibility, research and the application
of wild rubber and other sustainable materials. |
Educational
Lectures and workshops on design,
sustainability and entrepreneurship. |
