Green Grads returns to Planted Design Show during London Design Festival 2022
GREEN GRADS - ‘BECAUSE TODAY’S GRADUATES ARE TOMORROW’S PLANET’
24-25th September, Samsung UK, Coal Drops’ Yard, King’s Cross, N1C
The work of Bruno Schooling from Manchester School of Art will be one of the many talents on display. His project with Keepers Cottage Organics is a range of tableware that marks the materiality of the landscape - iron rich terracotta and crushed bone.
Come and see bacterial dyeing, mycelium vases, and other new materials/processes galore - or just grab a seaweed biscuit and learn some simple mending techniques. Green Grads is back, and again a part of the sustainability-based Planted.
The second edition of Green Grads at Planted will take place on the weekend of 24-25th September showcasing the work of ‘the cream of over 50 recent graduates’ addressing the world’s most pressing eco-issues drawn from a range of design disciplines from UK colleges and universities.
Green Grads is an ongoing initiative to platform recent UK graduates who are meeting head-on the world’s most pressing eco-issues such as sustainability, climate crisis, circular production, waste and pollution, depletion of resources and biodiversity. Green Grads is also highlighting a return to nature and craft, and the power/desirability of local materials and strengthened communities.
Graduates are drawn from a huge range of disciplines. Product/furniture design, engineering, material innovation, animation, textiles, ceramics, illustration and graphics, fine art, architecture, and interior design, and more. Graduates come mainly from the talent pool of 2022 but also include some graduates from 2021 and 2020.
They have been carefully chosen by founder/curator Barbara Chandler, who’s explored degree shows at colleges from Falmouth to Manchester, then criss-crossing London, and finally spending hours at the two editions of the New Designers shows this summer.
Green Grads is a potent pathway for innovation, linking UK’s top graduate talent with industry professionals that include design agencies, manufacturers, retailers, and galleries.
“Our show is an inarguable double whammy: we deliver support for new designers and support for the environment at one and the same time…through engaging content created/exhibited by the cream of recent graduates from British universities,” says Barbara Chandler, founder/curator of Green Grads.