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Basically places you can go to make, from renting your own studio, hiring a bench or being part of a community space. 

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Basically places you can go to make, from renting your own studio, hiring a bench or being part of a community space. 

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The aim of this project is to create an open source database of any and all individuals and businesses that have some form of circular/ethical/sustainable/environmental stance.
It is meant to be used and added to by you.  You can put yourself on the map, or add an entity that you know of, either way do NOT post private information, just what's held in the public domain.

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From individuals to large studio's across any creative practice!

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From individuals to large studio's across any creative practice!

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It could be a place to share equipement, an ethically supplier/manufacturer or simply a nice person giving something away.

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It could be a place to share equipement, an ethically supplier/manufacturer or simply a nice person giving something away.

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These guys are the big players, like Greenpeace of Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation.

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These guys are the big players, like Greenpeace of Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation.

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Whether an online resource, a university or primary school. If it teaches sustainability, circular economy or something similar, post it in this column.

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Whether an online resource, a university or primary school. If it teaches sustainability, circular economy or something similar, post it in this column.

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Heard of a competition, an interesting sounding project looking for volunteers, then share it here.

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Heard of a competition, an interesting sounding project looking for volunteers, then share it here.

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In the title please add the name of the individual/ business/organisation. Where it states 'write something' please include a short description of the entity your submitting (this could be a website tagline). Lastly please click on the paperclip looking symbol and create a hyperlink to their website. Thankyou.

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Designer (London/Mexico) using natural materials that are often considered waste.

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Help us by filling out this 10 minute survey - it would be super useful :)

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If you would like to be updated on upcoming workshops, research projects and associated updates to the varioustudios website, please sign up for our newsletter

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Paula Nerlich - Cacoa, material based on chocolate manufacturer waste

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Paula Nerlich - Cacoa, material based on chocolate manufacturer waste

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Challenge: most companies don't think about the value of waste. At the same time, it is difficult to find new product ideas that should exists in a circular economy and are not only consumer driven. What products do we need that we can redesign with circular materials?

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My current biodesign research explores vegan biodegradable bioplastics and foams from industrial and household food waste with diverse possible applications within product design, interiors and fashion.

My vegan biodegradable tableware has been on display at the London Design Museum and the materials can be found in several material libraries in Europe.

more info on Material District.

Aqua Faba Materials - Bioplastics and Biofoams

developed and created by Paula Nerlich - Biodesign, June 2019

developed and created by Paula Nerlich - Biodesign, Aug 2019

Aqua Faba Bioplastic and Biofoam

developed and created by Paula Nerlich - Biodesign, June 2019

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My current biodesign research explores vegan biodegradable bioplastics and foams from industrial and household food waste with diverse possible applications within product design, interiors and fashion. My vegan biodegradable tableware has been on display at the London Design Museum and the materials can be found in several material libraries in Europe.

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Creating materials based on food waste:

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Research and creation of circular biomaterials from industrial food production surplus, on a mission to eliminate food waste!

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Transforming coffee cup waste into furniture thanks to mycelium.

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We craft extraordinary interiors from discarded coffee cups thanks to 3d pritning technology.

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Knitted Textile Designer + Researcher in Sustainable Textiles

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Knitted Textile Designer + Researcher in Sustainable Practice

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Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.

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The alternative plastic recycling system run by people.

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.....on a mission to address the great disparity between sustainability, recycling and eco-consciousness and the bleak market reality around its lack of financially feasible applications.

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Ceres is a trio of eco-conscious designers, co-founded by Lara Mantell, Zoë Burt and Florence Hawkins.
They have expert knowledge in dyeing and printing natural dyes onto fabric and paper. They work as an artists collective focusing on research, sustainability, workshops, collaborations and community projects. Their studio is based at Fabric Floor in Brixton.
@ceres_naturaldyesprints

Follow

https://dancewithcolour.com/ceres/
email: ceresnaturaldyesprints@gmail.com

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Sharing my own stuff :)

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a handy, pocket sized card of strong, meltable bio-plastic that you can use to make, fix and modify the world around you.

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FORMcardtm is a handy, pocket sized card of strong, meltable bio-plastic that you can use to make, fix and modify the world around you. Just drop it in a cup of hot water and it's ready to use. Keep one in your wallet, toolbox or kitchen drawer so that it's always around when you need to use it.

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Founded by designer Bronwyn Lowenthal in 2002, Lowie is a sustainable womenswear label built from a love for traditional handicraft techniques, heritage elements, and an unwavering appreciation for the environment.

https://www.ilovelowie.com/collections/events

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Rising sea levels, more extreme weather events, loss of biodiversity. Our climate is breaking down and destructive industries continue to threaten our forests, oceans and air. But together we can overcome these challenges. Learn more about what Greenpeace is doing to protect our natural world for future generations.

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From climate change to plastic pollution: get up to speed on the biggest issues facing our world - and the most promising solutions.

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They work with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design. (UK)

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How to Build a Circular Economy | Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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Help build a circular economy: a better system that can help fight climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Explore the solutions for businesses today.

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London charity which supports the creative community to act on climate change and environmental sustainability. They also have a Resource centre.

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Welcome to Julie’s Bicycle | Homepage | Culture & Climate Non-Profit

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We are Julie’s Bicycle, a pioneering non-profit, mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate, nature and justice crisis.

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Our vision is for people with learning disabilities to be visible, equal and established artists. Intoart’s artistic programme creates opportunities for production, leadership and audience engagement.

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Intoart is a pioneering visual arts organisation championing its founding vision for people with learning disabilities to be visible, equal, and established artists and designers. Our studio is located in the heart of Peckham and has been embedded within the communities of South London for the past 23 years. Founded in 2000, by Ella Ritchie MBE and Sam Jones, the full-time studio programme spans art, design and craft and is an alternative art school working with people with learning disabilities to develop a long-term creative practice.

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Intoart is a visual arts charity based in London working with adults and young people with learning disabilities.

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Not for profit organisation funded by Scottish Government and ERDF to help lead Scotland towards a circular economy

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Inspiring change to fight the climate crisis

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Zero Waste Scotland have the facts to help everyone end the climate crisis by wasting less and making things last instead. Start your journey to zero today!

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British Council - Designing a circular future - Circular Futures Lab

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British Council - Designing a circular future - Circular Futures Lab

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a new programme developed in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to support a more positive and circular future for the making and design sectors globally.
https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/projects/hubs/

https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/blog/16/02/24/european-creative-hubs-network-innovative-models-s/

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Building the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from architecture and fashion to graphics, product and ...

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The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new ideas. Located in London, it’s the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.

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Atelier Luma is a think tank, a production workshop and a learning network of the Luma Foundation. Based in Arles, in the Camargue region, Atelier Luma wants to co-develop new ways of producing and caring for a city and a bioregion, using design as a tool for transition.

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Atelier Luma is a think tank, a producer, a learning network and a library for knowledge. Based in Arles, Atelier Luma wants to co-develop new ways of producing

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The Ma-tt-er Alliance connects with brands, organisations, institutions and individuals equipping them with materials, tools and strategies that are antifragile and response-able. Using a methodology based on reorienting mindsets, behaviours and mechanisms.

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Matter pays tribute to the materials behind human experience. Through research, events and consultancy, we encourage a deeper exploration of materials, processes, mediums and ideas.

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Membership of Building BloQs gives you access to top-quality professional workspace without the overheads. Use of the workshop facilities is pay-as-you-go, so you only pay for what you need, when you need it.

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I n response to the COVID-19 crisis, Building BloQs is closed.

We are considering how best and when to re-open the workshop. Your answers to a few simple questions will be a great help. Obviously we do not know what the immediate future holds, but it's safe to say want to reopen as soon as it's practically and morally justifiable.

Please help us and take our quick survey

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With thanks and hope to see you soon
BloQs Team

Workspace

Membership of Building BloQs gives you access to top-quality professional workspace without the overheads. Use of the workshop facilities is pay-as-you-go, so you only pay for what you need, when you need it. It's an ideal way of working for individual makers, start-ups and small businesses.

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Machines and
Equipment

Whatever your trade or craft, everything you need to work with is here. As a member you'll have access to a full range of industrial machinery from analogue to cutting edge digital. These resources will help maximise productivity, efficiency and accuracy for your business.
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Community

As a member of Building BloQs you'll find yourself surrounded by like-minded people with a wide range of professional experience and skills. Members work together on projects, share their knowledge, network and socialise.

Through our Made At service we put together teams of skilled members to create and deliver bespoke projects for private and corporate clients.
Our Members

Resources

There is a lot more to membership of Building BloQs than workshop space:

The BloQs Shop stocks a range of consumables and materials for each department.

The BloQs Cafe serves delicious homemade food and hot drinks - drop in any time during your working day for a break and to refuel.

BloQs offers safe storage for your materials, tools and projects - from one shelf to a 40ft shipping container.
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Building BloQs

4 Anthony Way
London N18 3QT

Workshop opening times:
Mon to Fri - 8am to 8pm
Saturday - 9am to 6pm
BloQs Café opening times:
Mon to Fri - 8am to 5pm
Saturday - 9am to 5pm

Tel. 020 8803 3987

Email. info@buildingbloqs.com
How BloQs Works

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Maker space based in the heart of Digbeth, Birmingham, STEAMhouse supports businesses, start-ups and sole-traders to develop new ideas, skills, products and services.

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Affordable biolabs in central London for biotechnology & synthetic biology start-ups; Rent shared laboratory and low-cost private lab space;

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Labs designed for biotech and life sciences startups. Fully serviced BSL2+ labs with access to specialist, equipment and flexible rental agreements in London.

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The purpose of The Remakery is to develop resourcefulness and resilience within our community through three specific aims:

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We want to offer an alternative to expensive computer and phone repairs, an avenue for those with fixable belongings who don’t want to send them needlessly to landfill, and a way for those with unwanted items to declutter their homes.

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The Edinburgh Remakery | #remakeadifference

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Award-winning environmental social enterprise committed to diverting waste from landfill, build & promote a culture of repair and reuse.

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A non-profit hackerspace in London: a community-run workshop where people come to share tools and knowledge.

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The London Hackspace is a non-profit hackerspace in central London. We're a community-run workshop for people to come to share tools and knowledge.

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"Every One Every Day is a really ambitious idea, with local residents at its heart. We know that Barking and Dagenham is a vibrant place to live and work, to grow up and older in. This project will make it easier to spend time with neighbours doing practical and useful everyday things together that we all enjoy."

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Materiom provides open source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources of natural ingredients, like agricultural waste. (UK/USA/Chile)

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The Materiom community includes material scientists,
designers, engineers, data scientists, and sustainability
experts. Over the past five years we've built a 5,000 member-
strong community and we are growing faster than ever.
Join us!

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The Materiom community includes material scientists,designers, engineers, data scientists, and sustainability experts. Over the past five years we've built a 5,000 member-strong community and we are growing faster than ever.Join us!

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#ShoeRepairLab in the North West of Glasgow to test various shoe-waste reducing solutions & facilitate change.

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A library of sustainable building materials, by Architecture and Design Scotland, hosted in the Lighthouse, Glasgow

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CLT is produced from dried, quick growing spruce & fir (larch or pine are alternatives) boards, stacked at right angles and glued together under pressure bonding system over their entire surface in generally 3, 5, 7 or more board or panel layers.

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Material Considerations - A&DS Materials Library

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CLT is produced from dried, quick growing spruce & fir (larch or pine are alternatives) boards, stacked at right angles and glued together under pressure bonding system over their entire surface in generally 3, 5, 7 or more board or panel layers.

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Our digital matching platform finds new high-value reuse options for your materials or (waste) products. We give a powerful boost to your circular ambitions.

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More than 8000 amazing materials ID cards, more than 6000 manufacturers contact details.

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Global and fully independent watch service on all kinds of material innovation ...

Because inspiration, creativity, innovation are constantly nourished by curiosity, discoveries, unlikely associations.

The thousands of selected materials and technologies can be found in our database and in our showrooms.

More than 9000 of extra-ordinary materials, more than 5000 referenced manufacturers! Do some research: this virtual material library brings together all the references carefully selected by the matériO team (the direct contact info of suppliers are included). The ergonomic online tool facilitates intuitive, simple and fun research, for rich and surprising results. An indispensable tool! Showroom and online database are updated daily and constantly feed on the latest global innovations.

Come see and touch several thousand samples of unique products, materials and technologies, sorted by major families. An effervescent place where creators come to manipulate and to be inspired ... A real Ali Baba cavern for designers!

The "bonuses" of our service. Projects carried out with weird materials, R&D advances in this field, our darlings and rants, news reports, small videos, our news, various interesting resources, and more...

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the material library your projects deserve

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Materialien unterschiedlichster Beschaffenheit und Funktionalität bilden und formen unseren täglichen Lebensraum.

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Committed to raising awareness about toxics in building products and to creating resources for the next generation of designers and architects to make healthier places for all people to live.

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Healthy Materials Lab | The next generation of materials

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We're here to help you design & build healthier homes, communities and environments.

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Find materials and contact suppliers.

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The Sustainable Angle is a not-for-profit organisation and founders of #FutureFabricsExpo. We initiate and support projects with a focus on sustainability in Fashion and Textiles and related industries such as food and agriculture.

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Madaster is the cadastre for materials. Raw materials are scarce but limited and must therefore be well documented so that they remain unlimited. With the help of the material passport, materials get an identity, which means that they can never disappear in anonymity as waste. Madaster acts as a library and generator for material passports. An independent platform accessible to all: individuals, businesses and governments.

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We connect brands with the world’s most innovative, sustainable materials, and establish a direct contact with manufacturers.

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Material ConneXion introduces brands to the latest material innovations while providing a cross-industry perspective on materials, trends, design, and sustainability. We are honored to be the world's leading platform for Fortune 500 brands to discover innovative and sustainable material solutions.

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Material District. - online materials library

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Material District. - online materials library

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articles and online library as well as exhibitions

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World’s leading platform in the field of innovative materials - empowers innovation by match-making material needs with material solutions.

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Borrow useful Things for your home, projects and adventures.
Affordable. Convenient. Kinder to the planet.

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Borrow useful Things for your home, projects and adventures. Affordable. Convenient. Kinder to the planet.

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Offset Warehouse is a social business that brings together a huge range of eco fabrics and haberdashery, ideal for all textile creations. From fashion, to interiors, to toy making, to lingerie,

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About Us | Eco Textiles | Offset Warehouse

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Socially and environmentally beneficial textiles for fashion and interiors from Offset Warehouse. About us, find out why we exclusively stock only ethical fabrics and sustainable textiles. Eco fabrics for dressmaking, fashion brands, interior design companies by the metre or wholesale quantities.

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The Undiscovered Business Potential of Production Leftovers within Global Fashion Supply Chains

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Reverse Resources, after winning the Global Change Award, has carried out extensive research among major fabric and garment factories in China and Bangladesh. We conclude that the volume of production leftovers is systematically underreported and thus underestimated by the industry.

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With a curated range of 300+ materials in our collection, our expertise lies in locating and sourcing innovative materials, as well as understanding their applications, and impact across industries.

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A platform for designers and artists to showcase their innovation with materials. Interviews and reviews with architects, sculptors, product designers and artists. Connecting the international design community!

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Our technology simplifies and rewards best practice, turning sustainability from a cost into an opportunity. Make smarter business decisions, Source more sustainably, Discover and be discovered... The essential tool for anyone working in fashion

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Ethical Fashion Organisations | Search & Connect | Common Objective

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Join our latest project Makers Manuals; a collaborative project between exciting makers and STORE STORE. Every other week we will publish a new downloadable manual for different things you can make at home. Participation is free and no design background is necessary.

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Co-operative workshop space diverting waste materials from landfill and supporting local communities, learning how to fix tech goods (London, UK) (also Edinburgh)

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The Restart Project is a people-powered platform for change, helping demand emerge for more sustainable, better electronics.

By working with communities, schools, and companies to value and use electronics longer - and documenting the barriers to doing so - we're driving a global movement to move beyond the throw-away economy.

We take local action to prevent electronic waste through hands-on, learning events where we help people fix their own electronics - and help others to do the same globally.

We also look at the big picture, generating valuable insights into how to improve electronics for people, from design and manufacture, through use and end of life.

When we act together, people everywhere have the skills and vision to guarantee that technology serves people and planet. Our insights and actions will enable designers, companies and policymakers to fix what we simply cannot on our own.

We're fixing our relationship with electronics - putting people and planet at the centre

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By working with communities, schools, and companies to value and use electronics longer - and documenting the barriers to doing so - we're driving a global movement to move beyond the throw-away economy. We take local action to prevent electronic waste through hands-on, learning events where we help people fix their own electronics - and help others to do the same globally.

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It looked at the challenges of waste and the opportunities of a circular economy through the lens of design. - Project by RSA (London)

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The Great Recovery was a project by the RSA working with Innovate UK which ran between 2012 and 2016. It looked at the challenges of waste and the opportunities of a circular economy through the lens of design.

The project questioned the system of 'take, make, waste' manufacturing and provided practical, design-led solutions through a programme of events, resources and publications. Its aim was to pursue a more circular economy, and to explore challenges, investigate innovation gaps and incubate new partnerships in pursuit of this goal.

This website is an archive of the project. Whilst it is no longer updated or managed we hope the videos, reports and case studies it contains will continue to be used to inform and inspire the design of products and services for a circular economy.
Why is design an important aspect of the circular economy?
Our current linear model of manufacturing is throwing up major economic and environmental challenges. Risk to supply chains are increasing, and the cost of materials is increasingly volatile, putting pressure on business. In order to address these challenges and ensure that the future generations are secure we need to shift towards more circular systems and good design thinking is pivotal to this transition.

In order to make this shift to a circular economy, designers need to consider the system as a whole rather than focus on individual components or products. True co-creation is crucial from those involved in these lifecycles: designers and material experts, manufacturers and resource managers, brands and retailers, consumers, policy makers and government, investors and academics all working together.
What happens next?
The RSA will continue to promote and investigate the circular economy through its Economy, Enterprise and Manufacturing work, specifically through its work on the future of making. If you would like to find out more about this or to commission research from the RSA please get in touch with:

Josie Warden josie.warden@rsa.org.uk or Benedict Dellot benedict.dellot@rsa.org.uk

If you would like to learn more about the RSA Fellows' Sustainability Network please visit the RSA website or contact the RSA Engagement Team.

The Great Recovery delivered many practical workshops and technical consultancy services. These services will continue to be delivered by through Useful Simple Projects so please get in touch with Sophie Thomas.

For the latest news from Innovate UK visit their website.

As part of the project the RSA Great Recovery ran a pilot with Fab Lab London to develop a space in which to test and develop circular economy products. For further information about them please visit their website.

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TED’s web platform project for MISTRA Future Fashion. The research consortium aims to create systemic and profitable change within the fashion industry through ‘interconnected design thinking and processes for sustainable textiles and fashion’. This open website is a platform for designers and experts to engage with new design ideas.

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WASTE REUSE DESIGN CHALLENGE

Part of the RIBA Young Architects Initiative

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WASTE REUSE DESIGN CHALLENGE

FEBRUARY - MAY 2020

THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY IS REAL

Together with other designers and creatives we need to create "buildings, cities and infrastructures as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating and self-sustaining system"

Architects Declare, 2019

RE-FABRICATE is a collaborative research project calling for architects and designers to craft and innovate new materials and uses from waste produce.

Individuals will be assigned teams of six, three members will be from the architectural profession and three will be from other creative disciplines such as product design, landscape architecture or members with specific craft or material knowledge. Through cross discipline collaboration, participants will learn from different creative perspectives to understand how we, as a wider creative industry can work together to reduce waste and design within the limits of our environment.

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Each team will be assigned a material and asked to create an intervention only using reused or recycled elements of that material. The different professional experience within the teams offers an appreciation of the materials at different scales from manufacture to construction. As such teams are encouraged to research, experiment and explore the parameters of their material in order to identify how it can be produced and used in a more cyclical way.

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The materials are:

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The intervention must both be a driver towards a more considered approach to waste production in the industry and also respond to the wider movement towards more sustainable cities. What aspects of city life can be reconsidered and intervened with to become more sustainable? From infrastructural themes such as transport or retail to social themes of community provision or domestic space, teams are encouraged to creatively respond to the wider city. Some examples of creative projects and processes by other professionals can be found in our approach section below.

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PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN:

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The Fab Academy is a fast paced, hands-on learning experience where students learn rapid-prototyping by planning and executing a new project each week, resulting in a personal portfolio of technical accomplishments.

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Fabricademy is a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry, in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry to the upcoming wearable market.

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Fabricademy is a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry, in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry to the upcoming wearable market. The two phase program will last 6 months, with approximately 3 months of seminars and learning modules and three months focusing on individual in depth applied project research.

The fashion industry is one of the most traditional and the 2nd most polluting in the world after oil. Today 20% of water pollution globally is caused by textile processing and consumers worldwide spent US$1.7 trillion on clothing in 2014. The production of the clothes we use is sustained over devastating social consequences in countries like Bangladesh and China, where labour exploitation holds the low prices we love to pay in H&M, Zara and other fast fashion brands.

The textile and clothing industry needs to explore and start to implement more viable, sustainable and fair alternatives systems of today. The program will focus on the unethical and environmentally unfriendly realities of the current industry, while combining the knowledge of traditional and future craftsmanship to work towards new ways of designing, prototyping and producing for the slowly changing textile and fashion-industry.

More than 50 years ago, science fiction authors such as Asimov predicted video conferencing systems, remote learning, artificial intelligence, and mostly all the advanced technologies we are deploying in our life today. The ubiquity of knowledge and information is transforming culture and learning processes for people, changing completely the way we work, live and play. Hyper connectivity through digital platforms is becoming symbiotic with the physical realm, creating synergies between bits and atoms in places like Fab Labs, Makerspaces, BiotechLabs, Innovation hubs and TextileLabs all over the planet.
Digital fabrication laboratories are becoming incubators for innovative technologies and creators of spin offs and disruptive initiatives that are being implemented in the "real" world.

The possibilities to conduct experimental research in a open laboratory gives the physical and mental space for innovative re-thinking and reframing of todays realities, offering the resources for visions to be materialised, tested, developed and make an active impact in people's life, no as a linear process, but as a spiral iteration and implementation in the reality.
Through the program of the Academy we are developing and implementing a new approach on to how create, produce and distribute textile and fashion elements, by using distributed manufacturing infrastructures and knowledge networks.
Along with experts from the field, the participants will investigate how the textile and fashion industry can benefit from new technologies, processes and business models.
We are experimenting with the human body, culture and mindset by recycling, hacking and sensing it, creating feedback loops with project development, where materials, aesthetics, sustainability and customization play equal and important roles. The academy offers a cross-disciplinary education and research platform, where production and culture through advanced technologies are making impact in the way we think and act towards the textile industry and all of its application fields. Working locally, while creating connected communities globally. We are not waiting for things to change, we are changing them from the ground up.

Fabricademy offers a distributed rather than distance educational model: students learn in local workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connected globally by content sharing and video for interactive classes. The individual labs are supported and supervised regionally by supernode sites with more advanced capabilities, expertise, and inventories.

The methodology and network developed in Fab Academy platform has subsequently been used to add classes (collectively called Academany) that share the model of hands-on instruction to students in workgroups, with local mentors, linked by shared content and interactive lectures by global leaders. The first of these was How To Grow (almost) Anything, an introduction to biotechnology with a faculty team led by Harvard's Prof. George Church. The Fabricademy is the second class introduced in this program.

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Fabricademy is a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry, in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry to the upcoming wearable market. The two phase program will last 6 months, with approximately 3 months of seminars and learning modules

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