Green Grads
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This year at Grand Designs Live, Green Grads have a special feature on Biodesign. And Nikoleta, currently a student for an MA in Biodesign at Central Saint Martins, UAL, has created a charming and poe ...
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The Wind-Powered Millstone Grit Coffee Grinder is beautifully-made from traditional materials and celebrates historic craft and engineering, but in a modern context. “I made the grinder wind-powered t ...
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Flod is a co-operative of Sheffield Hallam graduates hand-making plant pots from Jesmonite (often called eco-concrete) and recycled glass collected from Sheffield’s rivers and waterways. The unique dr ...
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Alice’s beautiful panels, designed as screens or blinds, are woven from waste plastic – in fact, their striking orange hue comes from Sainsbury’s carrier bags. They highlight the ubiquity and potentia ...
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Elizabeth Lee, along with fellow graduates Eden Harrison, Ori Blich, and Juan Ignacio Rion, has invented Carbon Cell, a fully compostable, non-toxic and carbon-negative replacement for expanded polyst ...
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Sam has cut and seasoned local coppice hazel, finding ways to use this irregular timber, and preserve its bark. “I wanted not only to use a very sustainable, affordable British wood, but to bring more ...
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Sean has developed an attractive, durable, mouldable material from UK-sourced organic waste streams which can be made into truly biodegradable objects. Now he is optimising his material to increase pr ...
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Dhruv’s project Decentralised Mycelium Housing has at its core mycelium blocks and enables low-skilled people in poorer countries to build themselves a house. Instructions are published “open source” ...
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Here is living furniture, a photo bioreactor harnessing photosynthesis and algae to purify air and grow food. “It’s essentially regenerative,” explains the designer, “exploiting the incredible propert ...
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“Sustainability and circularity are a constant in my work as I evolve my practice to support our planet’s growth rather than hinder it,” says Green Grad Jess, who calls her project Growing Home. She i ...
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Green Grad Sri Hollema’s timely invention is Mat Zero, a clever heating mat that’s placed directly on the ground. Here, working off a rechargeable battery (or hub) powered by solar panels, it gives sa ...
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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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“Mealworms ate my table,” says Will Eliot, somewhat obliquely. But it’s true, though a bit involved. Mealworms host a unique bacteria that is able to digest polystyrene. Accordingly, Will injected sug ...
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Future Fossils are the ceramics Jean makes to raise awareness of threatened “red-list” British bird species. “As a keen birdwatcher, I have seen the decline in bird numbers first-hand, since I was a c ...
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Simon is a well-established and very popular Green Grads from 2021 who will be visiting to demonstrate his wonderful willow-weaving skills and sell his baskets, lampshades, furniture and woven animals ...
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Artist/sculptor Caroline has created an installation especially for Grand Design Live. It is called Grains and Chains: An Act of Measured Material. It asserts that sand is the second-most used resourc ...
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Trixi has created the alluring “living signage” of our central Biodesign feature, using clay and local plants such as moss. Indeed, it is biophilic design which underpins all of Trixi’s work. This is ...
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Preethi and her co-director Dhruv Shah are a designer-engineer duo with backgrounds in architecture, instrument and controls engineering who recently graduated together with an MA in Industrial Design ...
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“Photosynthesis is the biological alchemy that supports almost all life on earth, and it is the most promising ‘net-negative’ technology we know,” explains Lucia, a London-based multidisciplinary desi ...
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Hannah is a very new GREEN GRAD – in fact, she is still at Chelsea College of Arts, finishing her degree in Product and Furniture Design. Her project is a reaction to the UK’s staggering commercial an ...
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Green Grads’ popular Mending Hub is coming to Grand Designs! Here Lucy and Lucianne will demo how darning and patching can make your clothes not only last longer but look more beautiful and personal. ...
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What or who is a food activist? Well, Green Grad ceramicist and illustrator Martha for one. She's promoting better food for us and the environment - and she's also out to cut waste. Martha’s pots have ...
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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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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. ...