SALLY DOMINGUEZ CREATIVE RESILIENCE
  • About
  • Public
    • Keynote Speaking
    • Workshops in Adventurous Thinking
    • Creative Strategies Video Overview
    • Television Work
    • Facilitation & MC
    • Music
    • Design Technology
  • Awarded Designs
  • Testimonials
  • Sally Drives Cars
  • Sally Dominguez's Writing
    • Editorial
  • Built
    • ARTBOX TINY8
    • ARTBOXSF
  • Sally's Blog: Beautiful Useful Green
  • Adventures
  • CONTACT
  • EPIC TRIAL

Driving the hydrogen fuel cell car in China

4/28/2011

0 Comments

 
After the most harrowing passenger trip of my life careening down the wrong side of a motorway 5 hrs out of Shanghai, playing chicken with overloaded lorries and buses, I swore I would never drive in China again.  Yet here I am on my final day of a 3-day drive from Beijing to Xi'an and I have made it: armed with my own Chinese drivers license I have ducked and woven my way through the kamikaze traffic with my B-Class F-Cell unscathed.  And I will admit it - by day 3 I was as mad as the rest of them.
Picture
This picture, taken at a park earlier today by my good humoured German co-driver Marcus Stier sums the whole crazy situation up - except that the technology in the car is serious and exciting and I will be writing it up in the next day. Meanwhile here are some pics from the whole crazy 72 hours.
0 Comments

Photo by Peter Wallace, Sydney Australia

4/12/2011

1 Comment

 
Picture
Peter is equal parts hairdresser (mine, in Sydney) and photographer.  His photograph of the pool at Bondi Icebergs is my favourite screensaver so - I am sharing.  Nuff said.
1 Comment

WAR GAMES by Linda Polman

4/6/2011

1 Comment

 
Just finished a mind-blowing book about the relationship between humanitarian aid, war and war crimes that has really caused me to think long and hard about my recent trip to Cambodia and also my plans to return...and where I (and my companies) donate money.

Engineers Without Borders Australia - with whom I toured Cambodia - have the very practical aim of giving expert advice only until a local business is sustainable on its own...and then retreating from the project.  In true "ginger beer" fashion the engineers keep a low profile and just get on with what needs fixing, solving or improving.  A really good model.
Polman queries whether Henri Dunant's original ethos for the Red Cross to be "impartial, neutral and independent" is possible in today's war zones and uses potent examples in Rwanda and Afghanistan to make her point.  Probably the best read for me in the past three years.  I bought mine at Siem Reap airport and the cover is apparently different in the US version but the content remains controversial and thought-provoking.  Do it!
Picture
1 Comment

New Design Within Reach catalog is here!

4/1/2011

0 Comments

 
Picture

I'm excited that the new DWR catalog is out - to be perfectly honest I am primarily excited because O MOON gets an entire page as well as a Moon-centric quarter page...and it is great to see my design getting some space!
I had heard from my Sydney factory that an upcoming Blanchett movie wanted 20 O MOONs for the set but the electric components couldnt be delivered in time...and I was pretty disappointed.  Since we dont currently sell O MOON in Australia (despite the fact it was designed for our outdoor lifestyle) I was keen for it to maybe get some traction via the movie.  ce la vie - perhaps I can get a local agent this year. 
Meanwhile I hear that DWR are negotiating with Knoll to reproduce one of my all-time favorite chairs, the Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy butterfly chair with leather seat.  Very exciting - stay tuned for details.


Picture
This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.
0 Comments

Extreme Green competition, Green Cities 2011

4/1/2011

1 Comment

 
The Green Cities conference ended with a live-on-stage Extreme Green shootout between a not-yet-prototyped windpower screen, an inproduction external blind system, and a biomass energy engine.  An international panel comprising a builder, an architect and an engineer were moderated by MOI to pick a winner - and altho both proven systems - the biomass and the blinds - were impressive, it was the Windscreen that really BLEW us all away! (I couldnt help myself).
Tim Binion is a student who thought that this project was over - but the workshopping from on stage and from the informed audience got him excited about the prospects for his design all over again!  In particular, the suggestion that the screen be mounted at least 2 ft/600mm off the building's surface so that the wind could be "double dipped" - once on the way in, the other, possibly higher yielding dip as the wind bounced off the surface of the building and returned back through the wind-harvesting blades.  In addition we brainstormed using the frame to store rainwater, and covering the outside of the panel with PVs as a hybrid energy-producing cladding panel - or as temporary fencing for events such as the sustainable London Olympics in 2012 (more on Dan Epstein's excellent overview of the Sustainable Olympics in the next few days).
I am hoping Tim will prototype his invention and take it on the New Inventors - he has offers from Arup and LendLease to help - you cant get better than that!
Picture

Above, a shot from Tim's online portfolio which you can also view here.  Below, Green Building Council CEO Romily Madew, Windscreen designer and Extreme Green winner Tim Binion, and me

GC2011: Day 2
1 Comment

    Author

    Sally Dominguez writes, skis, designs and teaches,   is curious about most things and loves Dr Seuss.

    Archives

    August 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    August 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010

    Categories

    All
    Aid
    Architecture
    Artificial Turf
    Australian Design Awards
    Bondi
    Butterfly Chair
    Cambodia
    Car
    Car Design
    Car Of The Year
    Cars
    China
    Circpan
    City Planning
    Compostmodern
    Coty
    Dcoty
    Desalination
    Design
    Design Competition
    Designer Cars
    Diggler
    Disney
    Dwr
    Emergency Water
    Exercise
    F-cell
    Filtration
    Green Cities
    Greenhouse
    Hawaii
    Hog
    Hog Farm
    Hogs
    Hydroponics
    Illustration
    Industrial Design
    Innovation
    Judging
    Judging Awards
    Kids
    Lead
    Lego
    Living Walls
    Manufacturing
    Mary Blair
    Materials
    Mike Biddle
    Offgassing
    O Moon
    Paris
    Parking Day
    Photography
    Poster
    Preparedness
    Rainwater
    Rainwater Hog
    Rallye Aicha Des Gazelles
    Rallye Des Gazelles
    Rally. VW
    Rdi
    Recycled Plastic
    Reusable Bags
    Spark Design
    Sustainability
    Sustainable Agriculture
    Sustainable Design
    Sustainable Transport
    Sydney
    Ted
    Tesla
    Tourism Australia
    Transport
    Upcycling
    Urban Farming
    Victoria
    Water
    Yves Behar

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.