The Future Laboratory

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Designing objects from animal bone waste

Tackling the issue of animal waste in the meat industry, designer Souhaïb Ghanmi is repurposing surplus bones into home and electronics goods.

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Fashion

The Big Idea: Hacking fashion

This year, we future-gazed to the year 2030, considering the ways that fashion could be hacked, tracked and rationed in the coming years.

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Marketing & Branding

LDF 2018: Exploring guilt-free consumption

London – For the duration of London Design Festival, futures studio FranklinTill will be exploring the complexities of navigating sustainable design through a series of dynamic talks, exhibitions, workshops and key collaborations.

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Technology

This mineral could remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Boston – At Goldschmidt 2018, an annual international conference on geochemistry, researchers from Ontario’s Trent University announced a faster way to extract carbon dioxide from the air.

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Technology

This wearable circuit is fully biodegradable

US – In a bid to tackle the rise of electronic waste (e-waste), Stanford University researchers have developed a semiconductor that can completely decompose.

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Fashion

Retailers should focus on womenswear to cut carbon emissions

UK – Women’s dresses and jumpers have the most profound environmental impact because of the way they are produced and the quantities sold, according to a new report.