CAROLINA
TINOCO
Social & Eco-Design Innovation
EDS
Design Support Talks
Paris, France
March 23, 2023
ON GOING
Exhibition
DesignxDurablexDésirable - L'art de vivre responsable !
Paris, France
March 29 - July 13, 2023
A survey on the mutations of the contemporary living environment consisting of 30 French design pieces -projects. The selection included designers, manufacturers, and editors moving towards more environmentally friendly creations and production models. These prototypes were selected because of their future-proof thinking, translating into reality sustainable ideas and providing answers to the challenges of a new responsible art of living.
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CONSULTING
Le French Design by VIA
Paris, France
2017 - Ongoing
Consulting on sustainabilty for the Paris based organization. Carola’s work includes research on sustainable design for multiple projects, most recently for the series Cahiers d'inspiration (2022), the survey 100 French Projects (2021) on designers starting their transition towards sustainability and Le French Design 2059 on the cardinal values of french design. Her contributions to the organization include the workshops Design Fiction (2021) with the writer Alain Busson and Thomas Paris.
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Ecodar3
Caracas, Venezuela
2008 - 2012
Founder and Director of ECODAR3, a creative consulting agency that provided ecological solutions on reusing and recycling everyday, industrial, and waste materials transforming them into resources for innovative artistic and design products. ECODAR3, a pioneering project, assisted governmental programs —Eco-design Program for Cultura Chacao—, and developed products —Solita upcycling design manual for schools. ECODAR included an “Ecolab”, which was an experimental laboratory for workshops and talks, covering all aspects of recycling and reusing, from food waste to eco-friendly architecture.
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Founder and Creative Director of Barbarella, a platform for innovative solutions towards rethinking social events through artistic and sustainable collaborations. Barbarella conceptualized and produced contemporary eco-designed furniture and personalized set designs. Barbarella’s creative force and sustainable values proved to be a trailblazing project that positioned the company at the top of the market in Venezuela. “Barbarella incorporated original pieces designed by Carolina as the tangram, tripa, tube lamp, and many other designs, bringing the concept of upcycling furniture into Caracas’ creative social scene”.
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CURATORIAL
Upcycling, recycling and eco-conception exhibition.
Carola was the Curator of “Nouvelles Vies”, an exhibition held at the VIA which created a smart link between eco-conception, upcycling, and recycling at the cornerstone of furniture and product design with social and environmental interesting stories to tell. The exhibition brought together 40 eco-designers and was the starting point for the prestigious Design and innovation Institute Le French by VIA new focus on Sustainable Design
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Catalog
Exhibition
DesignxDurablexDésirable - L'art de vivre responsable !
Paris, France
March 29 - July 13, 2023
PROJECTS
AMHABITAT
to be publish, 2023
Book and Media Platform
Carola’s architecture work is featured in the book Physical Habilitation of Barrios. Principles, History, and Methodology (To be published, 2023), written by Josefina Baldó and Federico Villanueva. She contributed to the editorial project with a Testimonials chapter, for which she wrote the introductory remark and an account of her work. The book offers a summary view of the Venezuelan experience on the physical habilitation of the informal settlements called barrios. Included in the chapter are Carola’s prototype of a progressive house built with industrial waste from the oil industry in Punta de Mata, Venezuela, and her “Public Playful Spaces Methodology” applied in Altos de Lídice, Caracas.
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Pan-Tuche Chair
Caracas, Venezuela 2013
Paris, France 2014
As a critical comment on Venezuela’s political crisis, Carola transformed the Panton chair —a design icon from the 20th century— into a symbol of the “Catuche” slum —a Venezuelan urban icon— carving its blueprint on the chair by hand and using advanced digital tools (BCN fab lab).
Pan-tuche was part of “New Territories”, an exhibition that started at New York’s MAD Museum of Arts & Design, then went to New Mexico and Mexico.
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Ni-Tangram
Centro Cultural de Chacao
Caracas, Venezuela 2004
An artistic installation of playful furniture built on the foundation of interactive design. This idea was inspired by mathematical puzzles made of modular pieces that can be assembled to create different configurations, allowing the user to play with them. The achievement and the ultimate goal of this setup is the creative design that maximizes every space, however small, thus creating alternate seating for the amphitheater of the Chacao Cultural Center.
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Spanish for Holy crap it’s a bucket, this project consists of a series of poufs that were designed re-using empty paint buckets. This series of pieces was given to an interdisciplinary team of architects, artists, and graphic and fashion designers, to intervene. A selection of these “cuñetes” participated in the Latin-American Biennial show BID Madrid (2002).
Coño, Es Un Cuñete
Caracas, Venezuela 2013
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