Leyla Acaroglu is a designer and consultant who encourages examining the full life cycles of products and materials to understand their environmental impacts. She founded Eco Innovators design studio in Australia, which creates award-winning sustainable designs and educational projects and workshops. Their goal is to build science-based sustainability practices by revealing environmental truths obscured by assumptions. An upcoming event organized by TED Talks Malaysia on August 1st will feature Dr. Leyla Acaroglu speaking on sustainability topics.
3H Summer School: Unity & Diversity - Building for Cultural Encounters
Assignment 2
1. WHYYOUSHOULDLISTEN?
In order to reveal the true impact of
the products and materials that we
use every day, Leyla Acaroglu breaks
through our deeply entrenched
environmental folklore. Leyla
Acaroglu who is the designer and
consultant encourages both
companies and individuals to look at
the full life cycle of the things that
they create and use in order to
understand their net effect on the
environment. At Eco Innovators, an
ecologically-minded Australian
design studio, Leyla Acaroglu’s team
makes award-winning designs and
projects that tap into a sense of play
in order to educate. From animations
explaining the lifecycle of a cell
phone to bookshelves made from
construction scrap wood to
workshops that help rebuild and
repurpose broken everyday items,
the goal is building savvy, science-
based sustainability practices.
WHOSHOULDATTEND?
All the campus students in Malaysia
especially those who concern about
environmental issue and those who
care about their Earth.
EVENTINFO
DATE : 1 August 2015
TIME : 10.00am - 5.00pm
VENUE : Kuala Lumpur Convention
Centre, Hall 1
Kuala Lumpur City Centre,
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Federal Territory of Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
ATTIRE : Smart Casual
FEE : RM2000 per pax
*ONLY 200 seats available
EARLYBIRDSPECIAL
• Lunch provided
• FREE powerbank as a door gift
• 50% discount on YPI's products
when sign up
AGENDA
• Q&A session
• Autograph session
• Lucky draw
REGISTRATION
Any inquiry on registration, kindly email us
to yukii@tedtalk.com with name, ic
number and contact number. Registration
closing date is on 20 July 2015. For more
information, please visit our Facebook
page at www.facebook.com/tedtalk
CONTACTUS
Call : 03-62437814
Email : yukii@tedtalk.com
MON to FRI,9AM to 6PM
"DOYOURDUTYTOKEEPNATURALABEAUTY"
Dr.LeylaAcaroglu
founderanddirector
EcoInnovators.
is a passionate sustainability provocateur, New York based Australian designer, social scie
entrepreneur.d Disrupt Design and Melbourne based EcoInnovators.
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