Green Grads
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Hannah is a very new GREEN GRAD – in fact she is still at Chelsea College of Art finishing her degree in Product and Furniture Design. Her project is a reaction to the huge amount of materials importe ...
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Lucy and Lucienne will demonstrate how darning and patching can make your clothes not only last longer but look more beautiful and personal. Welcome to the world of visible mending! Bring something yo ...
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What or who is a food activist? Well, Martha from Manchester for one. She's promoting better food for us and the environment - and she's also out to cut waste. She did ceramics for her degree and her ...
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William Harris is an accomplished glass artist, having graduated from the California College of the Arts with a five year BFA in Glassmaking. He combs London for empty bottles, finding them on the str ...
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Simon is a practising Product Design teacher who completed his MA in his spare time. He devised StickBrick as a classroom exercise for design and technology students to raise awareness of waste and su ...
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Ceramics can be durable and last generations, but are typically made from finite natural resources, the extraction of which may damage the environment and communities. Circular Ceramics was Sara’s gra ...
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Rosy has invented ReCinder, a new material which is 100% recycled from discarded broken ceramics and waste ash diverted from landfill. This is a greener, waste-based alternative to industrially-proces ...
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Textile waste is a sustainability disaster. Of discarded textiles, 73% is either burned or sent to landfill. Only 12% of what is collected is mechanically recycled and only 1% is used for new products ...
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Self-declared “waste-warriors,” Frieda and Vassi have set up Renee Materials to sell on-line production leftovers – aka “waste” - to creatives and makers who need supplies. On offer are paper, wood, t ...
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Dhruv and Preethi are a designer-engineer duo with backgrounds in architecture, instrument and controls engineering who recently graduated together with an MA in Industrial Design. They are currently ...
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Cyanoskin is a new kind of “green wall” - an innovative “living” exterior paint for mid- and high-rise buildings, available in a range of natural shades. Once applied, the photosynthetic paint grows a ...
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Dhruv’s project Decentralised Mycelium Housing features mycelium blocks and enables low-skilled people in poorer countries to build themselves a house. Instructions are published open source on the in ...
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Becky’s childhood garden imbued in her a lifelong passion for nature – particularly seasonal UK flowers. Now, endless drawings and paintings have become dramatic large-scale textiles, up to four metre ...
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Jacob, a young designer-maker with a studio in Peckham, laments the poor state of British woodlands – “only 7% are in ‘good ecological condition’ and we are importing timber because we grow so little. ...