The Cavendish Living Lab is a vertically integrated project that focuses on co-creating sustainable solutions and involves student participants from various disciplines and academic levels across the university. Through applied research and learning within an authentic setting, the ‘Living Lab’ approach uses the University of Westminster campus as the laboratory.
Through the Cavendish Living Lab project, we are creating an ecosystem where students can bring in their distinctive ideas and work collaboratively with their peers, academics, and various other stakeholders to address real word issues such as food waste, plastic waste and wastewater with innovation and creativity. Three main drivers of the ‘Cavendish Living Lab’ project are authentic learning, sustainability, and employability.
Currently, there are three projects being undertaken:
- urban food growing
- bioplastics production
- water management
The unique aspect of the Cavendish Living Lab projects is the use of Artificial Intelligence to reduce and manage waste effectively. The Cavendish Living Lab is funded by the Quinton Hogg Trust.