Design
Helping circular economy business leaders see beyond their own time
"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time." - T.T. Williams The quote resonates. The eyes of the future are upon ...
How circular economy thinking and learning is essential for business
The circular economy is your biggest challenge and your biggest opportunity. Celebrated as a catalyst for disruptive innovation, it can still result in nothing more imaginative than recycling initiatives. Businesses in industries with recyclable materials ...
What makes Cranfield an ideal place to dive deep into the circular economy?
The answer may be simple; coffee capsules. Halo Coffee, supported by Cranfield University, have developed the world’s first fully compostable capsule. No longer must we wait 200 years for our coffee capsules to degrade; instead, ...
Design and defence acquisition – the missing piece of the jigsaw
Reports in the Sunday Times and other newspapers this weekend have highlighted a number of familiar issues in defence acquisition. Tales of gold plated requirements, service chiefs ‘gaming’ the system to get preferred projects funded, ...
An aspirational toilet for the most deprived & vulnerable
An estimated 2.4 billion people live without improved sanitation, with one in ten people having no choice but to defecate in the open, and diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children ...
How Save Eat could save us from mountains of food waste
From Candy Crush to fitness trackers, the popularity of smartphone and tablet apps shows no sign of waning. Myself and two other students (Lourdes Saca and Isaure Tsassis) are studying on the MDes programme at ...