For their installation “Windflower” on Exhibition Road Urban Radicals designers Athanasios Varnavas and Era Savvides together with Adam Harris have transformed a wind turbine blade that had come to the end of its life into a beautiful ensemble of planters.
Instead of going to landfill, as many of these blades do, “Windflower” brings new life in the form of patches of wild flowers to South Kensington. A short presentation of how they realised this project will form the point of departure for a wider discussion about the role of design for a transition to a circular economy. This role reaches from developing sustainable ways of making things and re-using the materials they are made of, to showing us the necessity as well as the possibility of finding alternatives to wasteful production practices.
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The "Windflower" design team will be joined by
Lorna Bennet, Project Engineer at Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, where she is involved in both research and design projects, with a background of mechanical design and project management. Her current research areas include sustainable decommissioning and the circular economy; clean hydrogen development, and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).
The discussion will be moderated by
Marco Aurisicchio, who is an Associate Professor in engineering design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, and tutor in the Innovation Design Engineering programme run jointly with the Royal College of Art. His research interests are in the areas of fast-moving consumer goods, packaging, circular economy, closed-loop systems, service design, sustainable materials, and engineering design and manufacturing. In his career he has collaborated with multiple agencies and organisations including, among others, P&G, Nestlé, EPSRC and AHRC
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