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Could we transform our relationship with landfills as forgotten spaces and use these to help biodiversity by giving nature a home?
Sustainable fashion research in the design school is investigating people mending their clothes and how to encourage it to extend garment life.
Nayana Unnipillai discusses how Bayesian methods can help inform real-world problems across healthcare, environmental science and beyond by combining prior knowledge with newly acquired data.
Agriculture is closely tied to human civilisation. From hunting and foraging, it evolved into farming, sparking the Neolithic Revolution. Since then, agriculture has transformed through ancient, medieval, and industrial eras, and today is being reshaped by technology and artificial intelligence.
Get to know some of the ThrustWSH (Water speed hydrofoil) project team through five videos shot on various test locations.
Samantha Osys explores the location of ethics within design practice and how tools and methods function as boundary objects that help translate ethical concerns across teams.
Rachel A.Wood explores service co-design methods and tools in parenting education and support with, and for, women who are experienced with the justice system. She is also a practicing service design leader and mentor in public services, with a specific focus on the intersection of design and psychology.
Discover what technologies are needed to break the water speed record with ThrustWSH (Water speed hydrofoil).
Welcome to the ThrustWSH (Water speed hydrofoil) education hub where you can find out more about the technologies behind the ThrustWSH water speed world record attempt.