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 […]
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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 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 MoreFARM491 AgriTech Bootcamp at Green Lab
Green Lab is excited to be hosting FARM491’s Inspiring AgriTech Innovation Boot camp on 8th & 9th April. The two day bootcamp is for AgriFood and AgriTech startups looking to take the next steps to define their business model and become investor ready. Farm491 specialises in helping turn technology ideas […]
Read MoreOD&M Future Algae presentations
On Wednesday 28th November we saw the MA Industrial Design students from Central Saint Martins, working on the OD&M Future Algae brief, present there projects exploring the immense potential algae holds. For the the final crit all the students from across the course came together to present the projects they’d […]
Read MoreGrowUp Community Farms join the lab
We are super excited to have GrowUp Community farms join the lab, installing their aquaponics installations, growing in the space and creating living biomes. Their aims are to engage, educate and inspire communities about sustainable food production and help people make informed decisions about the food they buy and eat. […]
Read MoreThe MICRO_FOOD Library by research resident Sneha Solanki
Sneha Solanki of the A to Z Unit joined our research residency programme in October and is spending 3 months at the lab working on her project the MICRO_FOOD Library. ‘The MICRO_FOOD Library aims to bring the microbial transformers from our food systems to the forefront as a library of […]
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 MoreAlgae: a material for healthier urban environments
The lab is continuing it’s work as a partner with University of the Arts London (UAL) for the EU funded project OD&M (Open design & Manufacturing). This project connects universities, makerspace and enterprises to work collaboratively encouraging open-design principles, innovative practice and sharing ethos to design towards social good. As […]
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 […]
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