Elsa Zaldívar

On 17 October 2011 some of the design community’s most innovative thinkers gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York to celebrate the opening of Design with the Other 90%: Cities. The exhibition investigates how design can address the pressing challenges created by rapid urban growth...

For many years Elsa Zaldívar has helped rural women in Paraguay rediscover the benefits of loofah, a cucumber-like vegetable that when dried becomes a scratchy sponge. Zaldívar worked with a group of poor women to produce organic, blemish-free sponges on trellises in their back yards, then sell the sponges...