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 […]
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How 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 […]
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MYCHROME 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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Green 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: […]
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FARM491 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 […]
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Grow something in February
If you’ve ever wanted to get started with your very own urban agriculture project, new business idea or just grow for you local community Green Lab is the place to try your ideas during February. We are offering free access* to the lab for 30 days to a flexible bench […]
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OD&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 […]
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