Liverpool, UK
Ilsa Parry graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003 and founded REthinkings in 2009 with the conviction that too many products lack emotion and personality. She seeks to fill a gap in the market by discovering and developing alternative projects. Her studio produces household objects with the objective of designing products that demonstrate imagination, ambition, and creative design.
Versatile, light, highly functional, mobile, and complete with a kitchen, the Mobile Street Vending Kiosk is designed to help paroled prisoners and recovering substance abusers re-enter society and rehabilitate themselves through cooking and food.
The Q’ears is a hearing aid for less acute hearing loss, designed to work at specific times. The devices are disposable, and rather than using digital technology, rely on their shape to amplify sound waves.