February 13, 2015

Ministerial Support for our work at the Lab

On Wednesday 11th February, DEFRA’s Resource Management Minister Dan Rogerson visited us at the Fab Lab to see what we have been getting up to since our September launch. He was given a tour of the machines room, had a peek into the materials library, and spoke to RSA Director of Design Sophie Thomas about …

January 24, 2015

Pushing the bounds of materials and information: tracking and tracing in a circular economy

Come and join The Great Recovery in a workshop on tracing and tracking. Participants will be introduced to the concept of material tracking and tracing and what it could mean for the nascent circular economy.

January 5, 2015

Workshops in Scotland with The Great Recovery

In collaboration with Zero Waste Scotland, two investigative workshops will take place in Edinburgh on the 2nd Feb and again in Glasgow on the 3rd of February 2015.

December 8, 2014

Christmas Gift Workshop

Avoid rush in the shops, join us in Fab Lab London and create your own personalised Christmas cards and gifts for your loved ones, or maybe just some decorations for your home.

December 5, 2014

Creating a kettle or providing boiled water? Service design for a more circular economy

What exactly is service design, why do we need it and why is it particularly important for building a circular economy? Find out in The Great Recovery's 2 day long workshops.

November 25, 2014

Recovering Valuable Materials from Waste

Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are to invest up to £4.5m in collaborative R&D projects that seek to increase the recovery of valuable materials from waste streams.

October 28, 2014

Sustaining Creativity: Circularity Showcase

Join Julie’s Bicycle and the RSA’s Great Recovery team to explore the challenges and opportunities of ‘circularity’ in practice, and what creative practice might look like if we got it right.

October 28, 2014

Sustaining Creativity: E-Waste “Tear-down”

The 'circular economy' describes a system in which every material is repurposed and recycled, or safely biodegraded into the environment. This workshop is part of a series exploring how to make this a reality in the creative industries.

October 20, 2014

Introducing the 2014 Circular Jam, 21-23 November

The Circular Jam is London’s contribution to a brilliant volunteer­led global event that happens every year, called the Global Sustainability Jam. Last year there were over 80 events organised globally, all over the course of the same 48 hours. It is to designers and anybody interested in sustainability, what a ‘jam’ is to musicians. It is about improvising, it...

October 16, 2014

RE-Make:Shift:Do – What will you make?

Join us for 2 days of hands on making: Un-lock the potential of acrylic off-cuts to create stunning jewellery, and try your hand at the RSA ReMake Challenge and get crafty with waste!