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Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Inhabitat recently hit <a title="Best Green Design Designs From London´s Central St. Martins University" href="http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/csm-postgraduate-degree-shows/" target="_blank">Central St. Martins University of London's</a> degree shows to bring you the best new art and eco-designs from the school's budding young designers. Featuring a wide range of conceptual, wacky and environmentally aware projects, many projects focused on the use of local resources, ancient crafts, <a title="Best Green Design Designs From London´s Central St. Martins University" href="http://inhabitat.com/cheap-cardboard-packaging-protects-one-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-olive-oils/" target="_blank">biodegradable materials</a> and renewable energy. Jump ahead for our exclusive pictures and discover the new, exciting and fresh designs straight from London's world-famous CSM graduate courses!1
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Product designer David Bennett created a fantastic machine called Natural Factory that you can bring to the beach for building public seating with shells and sand -- a perfect way to engage people in a DIY activity!2
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Designed in partnership with Outdoor Leisure Ltd., designer Bharat Bargava created Green Cardio Zone, a public bench and lamp all in one.3
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011While a person is sitting on the bench, somebody else would generate light by pedal-powering the top lamp and getting fit at the same time. The design inspires social interaction between two strangers.4
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Another surprising, but earthier and biodegradable hanging object within the show was Seungjae Oh’s Beehive for Gardeners.5
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Created from a mix of recycled newspaper and bees’ wax -- used as a hardener and eco-binder -- this non-toxic, safe and waterproof home for the little buzzers can be hung from any tall tree branch.6
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Because an eco-design tool kit could have a wider impact than an eco-design product, Brazilian designer Luiz Moreira created Apekatu, a system to inspire the development of products that are better adaptable to their purposes and environment.7
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011The whole kit is biodegradable and printed using water-based. It consists of a strategy wheel with three areas -Human, Artificial and Natural- a website and a set of cards with example that come in a box made from Sundeala, a recycled newspaper new material being produced in the UK.8
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011By designing pressed metal joints for building bamboo frameworks to try to reduce poverty and bad living conditions, Central St. Martins’ graduate Sang Min Yu created Relieving Poverty through Design.9
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011A project designed for giving South East Asia’s rural communities a chance to work with local materials and produce furniture themselves, this project allows them to be self-sufficient, engage and be responsible within their local living areas.10
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011We have seen many examples of green walls blooming around cities, but this project by Mafalda M. Moutinho called Natural Design focuses on green living environments at home.11
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011It consist of a green wall that will improve air quality to indoors providing more oxygen and eventually, fresh fruits and vegetables in living rooms!12
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Growing Graphics by fresh designer James Henderson questions the well-established ways that temporary information is communicated in the outdoors, and the way it is produced.13
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011This project could be used for outdoors displays at festivals, signage or street art, and it could be made from all sorts of ephemeral and exciting reactive materials that will work with rain, heat, or in the case above be grown from yummy sprouts and eaten later!14
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011And last but not least is a recycled wood and mud art installation for living.15
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011Designed by American artist Julianne Sota, and dubbed Beastie’s Labyrinth, this art piece explores the idea of taking people into an earth-inspired environment that contrasts with their reality.16
Central St. Martins University of London Degree Show 2011As economy crawled out of recession in the UK, the Central St. Martins’ postgraduate students proved to visitors and the international art and design environment that there are still lots of new exciting projects and ideas to bring forward regarding sustainable thinking and making.17
