About Me
Who?
Hola 🌸
Nice to e-meet you! My name is Paola Zanchetta, you can also call me Letta. 😉
I’m a half Spanish - half Italian multidisciplinary designer based in Amsterdam. I moved to the Netherlands inspired by the countries forward-thinking design scene, shaped by the current social and environmental context. Here I found a meeting point between my personal & professional values & interests.
My passion for sustainability and design made me get in contact with Fiction Factory - North Amsterdam. Here I have been researching recycled plastics, experimenting with the Precious Plastic machines, and developing new circular funky products during the past months!
As a result of what I learned during my Industrial Design career, my professional purpose is to bring new collaborative concepts approached by the social and the environmental context.
An example of my previous work is Tamaragua.My thesis project related to the Precious Plastic Initiative in the Canaria Islands.
Tamaragua is a toy & a tool for both kids and adults. Users can clean the beach from small plastic debris while playing with the sand.
Its main parts are the ones that can be found in kid’s beach toys, which are the same ones needed to collect small debris in the sand:
- a rake to dig the sand;
- a shovel to collect the sand;
- a sieve to sift the sand and capture the small plastics hidden in the ground.
Tamaragua concept was born to provide people the tool needed to enhance their individual awareness vs. the collective awareness about the plastic problem in socie- ty.
Precious Plastic Injection Machine
Precious Plastic Extruder Machine
Why FabAcademy?
I find a big interest in the distributive economy. It is amazing thinking about how the same resources can convert into completely different results depending on where they are, and who is using them.
Out of my previous experience within the Precious Plastic initiative, I wanted to keep growing as an industrial designer enrolling myself in projects approached from the same methodology. In the Fab Academy I found both the hands-on learning experience which I’m looking for and the social / community approach which makes it a learning practice rich and unique.
What I am looking for?
I enrolled in the Fab Academy looking for an opportunity to learn how to make real my ideas and challenge myself in this field - especially in the electronics one ;)
I look to go more deeply about my digital fabrication knowledge, approaching all the projects from a sustainable point of view.
As an Industrial Designer, I find a big interest in materials (specially bio-materials) and processes, so I want to use this experience to develop my final project related to both of them.