Isabel is an interdisciplinary designer/maker running a research-based studio focused on sustainability. Avendaño Hazbún is interested in how things are made and the stuff that things are made of. Through self-initiated projects Avendaño Hazbún investigates materials and their properties and applies sustainable processes in the design and manufacture of rigorously made conceptual collections that have a cohesive visual language.

Mainly working with excess and the discarded with the intention to repurpose and considering the entire ecological impact of the object, Avendaño Hazbún’s work aims to use design to revise out-dated manufacturing models making sustainability the true measure of an objects’ worth.

I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work and pay my respect to Elders both past and present and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.