Rodrigo Garcia is a South American designer and environmental activist. Born in Flores, a small town in the countryside of Uruguay, Garcia is a passionate advocate for a world without plastics. Garcia is the founder and creative force behind AMEN, a collection of sustainable design candles, handcrafted with natural vegetal wax and a revolutionary mushroom carbon negative packaging, furthering his manifesto to share a world without plastics. As part of AMEN’s debut collection at Dover Street Market, Paris, Garcia presented his installation ‘Mushroom Conversations’, which has since travelled to Design Miami, Frieze New York, Galerie Kernweine, Galeria del Paseo and many more cities around the world. In 2021 in collaboration with his partner Katharina Kaminski, Garcia launched a collection of light sculptures ‘Luminous Beings’ which shares awareness on being born Intersex and was exhibited in Paris and Design Miami/Art Basel. With no formal training in the field, Garcia’s unique philosophy on design and activism has been featured in The New York Times, Wallpaper, Another, Financial Times, Vogue, Dazed and Numero to name a few.