GREEN GRADS
GREEN GRADS - Because today’s graduates are tomorrow’s planet
Green Living Live sponsored by myenergi, new for 2022 at Grand Designs Live, will host 20+ of these GREEN GRADS, showcasing in person their ideas for a greener cleaner future with an innovative mix of “green” products, installations and films that promote sustainability, biophilia and bio-diversity.
GREEN GRADS, founded and curated by multi-award winning design journalist Barbara Chandler, is an ongoing initiative to platform recent UK graduates, who are engaging with eco-issues such as sustainability, climate change, circular production, waste and pollution, biophilia, bio-diversity and much more. Some will explain how they’ve made new materials from waste, such as marine plastic, excess food, old carpets and more, with samples and products to prove it. Others will show elegant seating personally welded from building-site discards, and sculptural tables fashioned from old doors. Many GREEN GRADS will celebrate the beauty of natural sustainable materials, such as willow, cork, wool and wood.
Show director of GREEN GRADS is Michael Czerwinski of Studio Tucktite.
Meet the GREEN GRADS
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“Why do we use clean water to flush our toilets at home?“ queries Annie Mills, of De Montfort University. Water scarcity in the UK is accelerating, and toilet flushing amounts to around 30 per cent of ... -
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Sara graduated last year from Central Saint Martins, studying BA Ceramic Design, where she explored multiple methods of reclaiming industrial waste to replace the raw materials in ceramic production. ... -
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Graduating in 2021 from De Montfort University, Leighann has experimented endlessly with “botanical printing” direct from nature using plants and leaves, using steam in her shed from a large fish kett ... -
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Katherine Toms calls her Lost in Yesterday collections “designer activism,” with its intricate drawings of endangered species cleverly realised as pattern. “I believe fabrics can illuminate environmen ... -
Connie graduated from the University of Brighton in 2021, and called her final collection Rewild. This references the “rewilding” of Knepp Estate in West Sussex, which was started over 20 years ago. ... -
Olivia is a graduate of the RCA 2021. During lockdown, she made a series of enchantingly ethereal creations from bags of single use plastics garnered from a neighbour. Using not much more than handtoo ... -
Georgie is a 2021 graduate of Loughborough University. Her collection is called Human Presence: Working with Nature, and is remarkable for the variety of textures created by weaving by hand on a loom. ... -
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Ellie graduated from Kingston University last summer, where she developed ceramic vessels with glazes made from local industrial waste to replace virgin metals. She explains: “People think ceramics a ... -
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"Beef, milk, and cheese are all foods we commonly consume," says ceramicist Claudette Forbes, who graduated from Morley College in 2020 with an HND in Art, Design and Ceramics. "But cows are astonishi ... -
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Phoebe is a 2021 graduate of the University of Northumbria. After extensive research both on the ground and in the lab, she has refined a collection of inks derived from farmed seaweed. “My aim is to ... -
Harry is a graduate of the University of Northumbria. His Wave Cycle is sustainable plastic furniture made from recycled surf and bodyboards. “Around 16,000 cheap, polystyrene bodyboards are abandoned ... -
Graduating last year from the Design Crafts course at De Monfort University, Rosie Williams' Plastic Species are imagined ceramic “fossils of the future,” where sea creatures are embedded with deadly ... -
Mona, a graduate of the 3D Design course at Plymouth University, has invented Materorganic, also a new material made from food waste which can be used as a glue, a filler or a coating – “I used tange ... -
Riccardo is a recent graduate from the MA Material Futures course at Central Saint Martins. “The UK produces around 400,000 tonnes of waste carpet a year,” he explains, “and only 10 per cent is recycl ... -
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Emma graduated from Kingston University last year, where she developed her Green Pipe concept, which won an Award at the inaugural GREEN GRADS show last year. Her research showed that London has suffe ... -
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Ameera will demonstrate how to weave with waste textiles. Currently, Ameera is completing a weaving commission for Unilever’s Surf brand headquarters in Kingston. She is using recycled sari silks for ... -
Using arresting hand-screened posters, Scarlett Riggs’ Alter Your Mind campaign is aimed at young people, from 18-25. “I want to alter their mindset and subvert their wasteful consumer habits.” She a ... -
During lockdown Andrew and his housemate Andreas Kamolz, who both recently graduated from the RCA, made the “SE17 chair” entirely from local materials. Pallet wood for a spring pole lathe came from n ... -
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Irene, an architect and designer from Spain, is also a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins and a GREEN GRADS Award winner. She will show her modular Grid Furniture, made from materials rejected ... -
Yasmin is a recent graduate of Central Saint Martins. Her arresting furniture collections called RAW (Rebellion Against Waste) is made from materials salvaged from building sites and demolition dumps. ... -
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“They’re just tennis balls cut in half and eco-dyed,” says Mathilde Wittock, who painstakingly collected old balls from local clubs. Halved with an ingenious S-cut, these are slotted into plywood, for ... -
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Biophilia is a central theme of GREEN GRADS – defined as a “reconnection with nature, natural materials and craft.” Simon is a skilled willow weaver, who graduated last year as a 3D designer-maker fro ... -
Plastic ocean waste, the scourge of the planet, is under attack from Callum Wardle, a graduate last year from Kingston University. His project Ocean Bucket has been running "beach cleans for beach toy ... -
Living Blocks are the invention of Lawrence Parent, developed from his degree project at Brighton University. You can make them yourself from an "open source" (i.e. freely accessible to all) recipe f ... -
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A 2021 graduate from the Material Futures MA course at Central Saint Martins, Ruta has been meticulously documenting her personal waste, putting samples in jars and labelling them, and then feeding th ...
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