The Royal College of Art has just announced the winners of the Sustain Awards. Sustain is a showcase for the work, issues and arguments related to sustainability within the RCA in their Sustainable Art and Design stream. Green Thing loves new ideas and examples of creativity v. climate change. These projects show that through a variety of media and themes the challenges that climate change pose can be deconstructed and thought about and tackled in different ways.
Here are a few of this year’s winners:
Noemie Goudal’s Les Amants explores invasion of man-made elements into organic landscapes. Her photographs illustrate the struggle between society and nature and passion leading to destruction.
Jane Bowler won in the waste category for her fashion designs that show that sustainability and desirability can be compatible. Using materials from a post-consumer plant, she’s transformed plastics from old bath mats and shower curtains into unique fashion pieces.
Richard Gilbert’s project won in the energy category. 35% of the UK’s energy goes into making our material world and The Megajoule Challenge and Energy Trumps are sets of ways of thinking about the energy in the earliest stage of design. Using a classic, Anglepoise lamp, he has made a creative tool that allows people to re-think energy use down to every last material object.
To see the other projects and find out more, visit The RCA: Sustain 2010
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
