Research resident Midushi Kochhar tells of her experience working at the Lab and exhibiting at this years London Design Festival, 2019. ‘I spent 12 weeks at Green Lab as part of their research residency program, working in the Material Lab to experiment and create alternative material solutions, with a focus […]
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Learn to build an Urban Aquaponics system
We’re opening the lab at the weekends to run our regular hands on aquaponic workshop: Design and build your own urban aquaponic farm. We’ll show you how to grow your own food using fish waste and a water recirculating system. Using low cost equipment and recycled materials you’ll learn […]
Read MoreRound up of the Open Design & Manufacture project
Over the past 3 years Green Lab has been involved in an ongoing european funded project – Open Design & Manufacturing (OD&M). This project has involved a consortium of 10 other institutions including Higher education, Businesses and Maker spaces, working together on projects that focus on knowledge exchange and the […]
Read MoreA Closer Look At Bioplastics – A Solution to Plastic Waste?
Caroline Wood, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield (studying parasitic weeds that infect food crops) attended the Circular Economy Club’s event hosted at our openhouse in May, to learn more about the labs involvement in the current bioplastic debate. Since, Caroline has continued her research and published an […]
Read MoreResearch Residency Wrap-Up: Sneha Solanki
Sneha Solanki is an alumnus of our research residency programme. She is from the A to Z Unit, a “culinary research facility with a mission to map, investigate and interact with food systems and ecologies.” During her time at Green Lab, Sneha worked on her MICRO_FOOD project through which she […]
Read MoreHow to mitigate agriculture’s contribution to climate change?
Our friends at the Green Alliance think tank just produced a new report that caught our attention: Cutting the climate impact of land use. It got us thinking on how we can mitigate the agricultural sector’s contribution to climate change. Green Alliance highlighted how urgent transformation is in this sector: […]
Read MoreOpen source robot arm to extrude organics – Research resident Andreea Bunica
Andreea began her research residency here at the Lab in March and is using the opportunity to research across the disciplines of biology, robotics and responsive growing in relation to her background in architecture. Her broader area of focus is how to successfully print growing bio matter in gel […]
Read MoreKombucha Leather – Research Resident Riina Oun
Riina is a designer and maker of hand-crafted leather gloves and a material researcher currently pursuing her Masters of Arts in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins UAL. During her research residency at Green Lab Riina is searching for a biological leather substitute suitable to use for making gloves. She […]
Read MoreAlgae Cutlery – Research Resident Midushi Kochhar
Midushi is a product designer and material researcher who is pursuing her master’s degree in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins UAL. For her 12 week research residency here at the lab she is using her material driven approach to concoct sustainably derived materials from the sea and wasteful everyday […]
Read MoreMYCHROME PROJECT – research resident Valentina Dipietro
Valentina Dipietro is a material designer and researcher about to complete her MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. She is currently undertaking a 12 week research residency here at the lab, utilising our developing material lab to experiment with mycelium materials with an outcome to make them […]
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