Abari Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute » Artwork http://abari.org promote bamboo and earth as a modern construction material. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:21:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 BAMBUCICLETAS http://abari.org/bambucicletas http://abari.org/bambucicletas#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:28:43 +0000 admin http://abari.org/bambucicletas
 Photo: American Bamboo Soceity

Flavio Deslandes is the man behind the development of a bicycle made of bamboo. He is Brazilian and he is an industrial designer from the PUC-Rio University.

The bicycle is one of the worlds most brilliant inventions. It is hard to find a disadvantage (to the bicycle) – except the material it is made from. Light bicycles are made from aluminum, which is one of the most resource demanding materials that exist. My bicycles are made of grass, he says. 

Continue Reading Steen Heinsen's article.

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Our friend Deepak from Chepang gaun is weaving! Almost everyone, men and women, young and old, know how to weave in this village. They usually weave dokos and nanglos, for their everyday use. Weaving could be a very good opportunity for these really impoversished and marginalized people to generate income. But the lack of market and perhaps lacks of exposure to more contemporary designs has kept them on the fringes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
                                            
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This is our new member Roshi Shilpakar's latest creation. This is an art created using reed. Reed is soaked in water to make it soft, cut into pieces, flattened  and then put in place using a template. It is a long and a very meditative process indeed. 

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