#S2 - Episode 9

BUILDING

BAMBOO FURNITURE

In this episode, Rebecca shares her journey from industrial design to empowering communities and creating bamboo furniture pieces in collaboration with craftspeople that speak to the soul.

In this episode, Rebecca shares her journey from industrial design to empowering communities and creating bamboo furniture pieces in collaboration with craftspeople that speak to the soul.

• From Industrial Design To Bamboo

• Investigating Bamboo Species For Furniture Production

• Using Local Bamboo

• Standardising Bamboo

• Changing The Perception Of Bamboo

• Creating A High-Value Bamboo Product Line

• Uplifting Local Bamboo Communities

• Working with INBAR

• Empowering Communities

• Working With The Local Government

• Dendrocalamus Strictus

• Traditional Skills And Contemporary Designs

• The Value Of Craftspeople

• Challenges In Bamboo Furniture

• Creating Products With Soul

• What is Next For Rhizome

HOST: Orin Hardy

PRODUCTION: Adrian Tan

MUSIC: Rizal Abdulhadi

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Meet Your

Host

Meet Orin Hardy, director of Bamboo U, ecological designer and entrepreneur. Hear his vision of creating a more beautiful world with bamboo

1000 Bamboo

Villages

Learn about Arief Rabik's approach towards growing regenerative bamboo forests in Indonesia.

Training The Eye with Bamboo

Listen in to learn more about how bamboo can expand your creativity and develop beautiful objects out of bamboo.

Bamboo Farms in Europe

Dr. Friederich is planting Europe's first bamboo farm in southern Portugal. He says it could be the beginning of the bamboo industry in the region.

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