Practice

We want to ensure that students don’t just gain the skills, knowledge and values to address the climate and ecological crisis in their curricular learning, but also within our co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities as well.

Students receive commendations for sustainable product design

Five Product Design students from BU won nine awards between them at the New Designers 2022 show in London, amongst 2500 graduates. Ryan Waterhouse won the Best New Product Designer Award - the highest prize awarded at the show - for his product Terra Nova which aims to improve the world’s soil quality through better monitoring of nutrients. The world grows 90% of its food in topsoil. The current rate at which nutrients degrade suggest that topsoil will run out in just 60 years, posing a significant threat to food production.

There were double successes for Angela Piazza and Joe Samuels who both received ‘Anglepoise Loves’ commendations for products with sustainability at their hearts. Angela’s product takes non-recyclable plastic waste, which is shredded then made into reusable roof tiles. These tiles could provide heat reflective roofs for communities in India, as well as reduce landfill waste and increase the income of families living in deprived houses who collect waste from dumpsites.

Ryan is a dedicated and talented designer whose final project has the potential to make a difference to a problem which affects us all.

The Tiger of the River children’s book

Dr Adrian Pinder, Director of Bournemouth University Global Environmental Solutions (BUG) has published a new illustrated children’s book called ‘The Tiger of the River.’ The story describes the life journey of ‘Matisha’, a female hump-backed masheer fish and her adventures as she migrates upstream through the River Cauvery to lay her eggs. Dr Pinter created the book to raise awareness of marine conservation so that “rivers worldwide are valued for all their wildlife and all the essential ecosystem services they deliver.”