The Fund provides students with the opportunity to carry out sustainability-related projects and interventions that are co-created, designed and implemented by students and University colleagues working in partnership.
The Green Fund panel is very happy to announce this year’s project team winners. The seven successful project teams are exploring the below topics:
- Planet-friendly denim
Experimenting with the use of bacteria for the manufacture of environmentally sustainable indigo dyes for staining blue jeans.
- Sustainable fashion hub
Creating a dynamic focal point at Harrow Campus for ‘Fashion as Change’, a project exploring sustainability, collaboration, community, entrepreneurship, education and inspiration in fashion.
- Smart and sustainable weather station
Designing and developing a low-power, minimal-maintenance weather station incorporated with a multitude of sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, rainwater gauging, air quality, etc and interfaced with computing facilities to collect, visualise and interpret quality data.
- Furniture design collaboration with Brazilian social enterprise Pedra Furada Transformation Workshop
Student designs shared with the Pedra Furada workshop, a social enterprise making furniture from recycled plastic, who will realise the designs to sell at Global North price points.
- Green approach to microbial identification
Implementing a new technology and technique in Westminster Labs which will reduce the need for single-use plastic during the microbial identification process.
- Rainwater harvesting
Exploring issues around rainwater harvesting in design and in practice by trialling a rainwater collection point at Marylebone Campus.
- Robotic recycler
Designing a robust, remote-controlled arm to sort waste which will eliminate the need for direct contact with waste processing for recycling.
We wish the project teams the best as they start their projects! All projects will complete in June with a final presentation and poster display. The poster display will be uploaded online and shared with students and colleagues.
