A trip to the Global Bamboo and Rattan Conference of 2018
I recently went to China to attend and give two talks at the 2018 BARC (Bamboo and Rattan Conference). The event was hosted by INBAR,…
July 23, 2018
5 Most-Read Green Posts in 2017
Welcome to the highlights of 2017! Thank you to everyone who follows this blog- whether you get here by being one of the nearly 20,000 newsletter…
January 8, 2018
ArchDaily talks to John Hardy
What has been developed in Bali goes far beyond just “innovative architecture” or “architecture in bamboo.” Instead, Hardy, his family, and his colleagues are attempting…
September 19, 2017
Where bamboo is illegal
This young man is the bamboo future of Réunion Island, where bamboo is illegal. Did you know that you can’t use bamboo as a building…
June 21, 2017
The Bamboo Musician
In December, Sampah Jujur was featured on Make a Change Bali— a project consisting of 30 videos about people leading the way to a more…
June 6, 2017
Bamboo food packaging from Thailand
Yet another great use for bamboo- this time coming out of Thailand. Great video and article over at CNN. The company is using a technology…
February 13, 2017
The future of bamboo is happening in China
I’ve had to create three blog posts just to chronicle all the amazing bamboo innovation and design I saw in China. They really are using this…
January 2, 2017
Laughing yogini and bamboo bicyclist Suskitawati
Suskita is a young Chinese woman traveling across the world on her bamboo bike with a mission of spreading happiness with laughing yoga. She started her world…
October 26, 2016
IBUKU’s furniture collection in the Financial Times
“Fast forward to 2016 and back in Bali’s verdant hinterland, local artisans are carefully bending this ultra-sustainable resource into fantastically undulating sculptures, sans splinters, under…
October 21, 2016
The best designers you need to be watching right now (WIRED)
Honored to be named in this WIRED Design Issue article on the best designers. Thanks to Bjarke Ingels for the amazing mention of IBUKU and…
