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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Round 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 MoreGreen Lab x Materiom collaboration
Materiom have taken residence in the lab for our Green Lab X Materiom collaboration. Zoe Powell and Pilar Bolumburu are both material researchers and workshop facilitators from Materiom and they will be spending the next few months working with us and helping to develop our Material Lab and Library. Materiom: […]
Read MoreFuture Algae – exploring the Margate coastline, Haeckels and seaweed
Yesterday the Green Lab team took a group of students from MA Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins to Margate for a day of exploring the potential of seaweed for the OD&M (open design & manufacturing) project. With a focus on the future potential algae holds we have challenged students to […]
Read MoreREAP conference 2018 – Agri-Tech for a productive future!
Green Lab founder Ande Gregson will be taking part in this years REAP Conference by Agri-Tech East on Wednesday 7th November with a focus on Agri-Tech for a Productive Future. The day will consist of a series of talks, showcases and debates hosted by various speakers with different viewpoints and […]
Read MoreWe’ve space for you to #grow #farm #ferment #experiment
With the Lab staying put in Bermondsey we now have some affordable temporary project space – if you have an exciting project or area of research you are working on and think you would be a good fit and one of the below options suits your needs make sure you […]
Read MoreSouthwark… we’re sticking with you
The Lab has gone a little quiet over the last week – with big decisions to be made… With the news that our Bermondsey home will stay standing until early 2019 we have decided to stay put and halt our move to Brixton – that’s right Lambeth – I’m afraid […]
Read MoreGreen Lab in Malaysia
Green Lab Founder, Andrew Gregson, spent the last week in June 2018 participating in a 5 day workshop in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia in partnerhip with Westminster University, The British Council and University of Malaysia. The intensive trans- and multi-disciplinary five-day workshop was funded by the ‘British Council Researcher Links’, designed […]
Read MoreOpen Design & Manufacturing
Green Lab is partnered with University of the Arts London (UAL) as part of an EU funded project OD&M (Open Design & Manufacturing). The project connects universities, makerspaces and enterprises to work collaboratively encouraging open-design principles, innovative practice, and sharing ethos to design towards social good. As a makerspace with […]
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