Day 2 of Design for Planet will begin at 10am with keynote speaker Pam Smith from Newcastle City Council. We’ll be dipping in and out of the various talks today, so look out for updates and highlights on this thread!
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Biohm's Ehab Sayed says you can "decarbonise your real estate" by implementing biomimicry into design, demonstrating several objects made of orange peel, such as lampshades.
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Ehab adds: "This biomimetic perspective is one that will enable us to hopefully realign our natural and our cultural systems, so that we can continue to coexist on this beautiful planet".

Nov 9, 2022 · 12:20 PM UTC

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A panel of speakers, including PearsonLloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd and Studio Morrama founder Jo Barnard, discuss how designing for repair and changing models of ownership are the part of "next practice" product design.
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Combining "outrage and optimism" is the only way to create change while avoiding climate anxiety, says Lloyd.
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Design Council CEO Minnie Moll closes the festival and announces that the next Design for Planet will be between 16-18 October 2023, just before next year's COP. It will be held at the University of East Anglia, which Moll says has a great reputation in the climate science field.