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If you have any interest in joining the POWERleap research and development team, please email me at: elizabeth.redmond@gmail.com
If you are interested in viewing my dispatches from the field, seeing my most recent and juicy POWERleap blogs...visit my story-telling platform at:
PROJECT HISTORY TO DATE:
June 9, 2008: Elizabeth's Earthkeepers site launches. Check it out!
June 5, 2008: Elizabeth presents POWERleap to the 2016 Chicago Olympic office. She met with two Environmental Directors in the office as well as a lead marketing director. The 1.5 hour meeting left them looking ahead to POWERleap and similar new technologies for possible collaboration.
May 26, 2008: Elizabeth is selected as one of five participants for a new story telling platform called Earthkeepers- a site that enables “change agents” to tell their amazing stories while building a network of fans around the world who want to help them. Through videos, photos, blogs, mobile messaging and podcast dispatches from the field, Elizabeth will be able to draw in “backers” to lend a hand – virtually or in person.
May 6, 2008: Elizabeth sets up POWERleap tiles for a final critique exhibition at Archeworks. Archeworks is an alternative design school in Chicago and the team she exhibited with were presenting an integrated proposal for social olympiads and alternative energy design for the 2016 Chicago Olympic bid.
April 16-23, 2008: Elizabeth heads to Milan Italy for the Salone di Mobile (International Furniture Exhibition) with friend Mavilya Chubarova for some fun and inspiration.
April 13, 2008: Elizabeth and two POWERleap tiles travelled down to Atlanta Georgia for an ad campaign shoot with Lees Carpets. The campaign connects young people with a product line of theirs. It will premeir in Interior Design, NeoCon World Design Show magazines, Architecural Products Magazine, and other design propoganda.
March 13, 2008: Elizabeth spent the day with a CBS film crew who were shooting a spot on Elizabeth and POWERleap downtown Chicago. The segment was shot for a Discovery series called "Future Life" and will air in the 1-hour "Future Cities" episode.
February 21, 2008: POWERleap is and Elizabeth are featured by Metropolis Magazine in a video event for a University tour on the Next Generation fo Design. Elizabeth was gratefully interviewied by Metropolis's Chief in editor, Susan Szenasy then set up tiles on an East Village sidewalk.
January 9, 2008: Elizabeth heads to Atlanta, Georgia to present some new POWERleap ideas and begin planning steps for a custom installation, cross promotional opportunity for an upcoming design indsutry trade show.
October 29, 2007: POWERleap and I were featured on a segment shoot for Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet Television series. The segment will permier in the "gadgets" episode on June 17th.
September-October 2007: With a generous $10,000 grant from The Mohawk Group, a donation from Detroit based SensiTile, and design help form Mike Hollibaugh of HolliSolar and Joe Gebbia of Ecolect, I designed and constructed the Third Generation Design of POWERleap.
June 17, 2007: I met with Mohawk Group president and Product Development leader to discuss potential partnership on product R & D, and technology funding.
May 21, 2007: I gave a presentation and exhibited a modified installation of POWERleap at the Metropolis Magazine Design Entrepreneurs: Rethinking Energy Conference during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City.
How do you fit in:
I am seeking to collaborate with a company or research institute/laboratory to progress this concept into a commercial product.
Additionally, I am looking for inspired, creative, and forward-thinking people to form a think tank based on human powered electric grids where we will design solutions that connect social networks with electrical energy generation.
If you would like to share some ideas or would like to be involved in changing the way humans interact with eachother and the electricity we need/consume, please email me