As part of its ‘Our earth – our responsibility’ campaign, Danish broadcasting company TV 2 Denmark has installed a series of raised benches in Copenhagen to highlight the threat of rising sea levels. The benches have been “elevated to match what the UN considers to be a realistic rise of the sea-level in the year 2100,” TV2 say. Each bench has a plate reading “Flooding will become part of our everyday life unless we start doing something about our climate”. More here

The idyllic Domaine de Boisbuchet, near Poitiers in France, offers residential summer design workshops with a promise to “repair, recharge, reset”. Among the programme this year are ceramicist Faye Toogood, French studio Aléa, who will run a workshop on Bio-inclusive Design with Mycelium and Dr Johnny Drain on Fermenting to Zero Waste. Details here

Fed up with Africa being a ‘waste disposal system’ for donated clothes, Ugandan designer Bobby Kolade decided to refashion items into unique designs and return to sender, The Guardian reports. Kolade is launching Buzigahill, a fashion brand creating clothes from secondhand clothing sourced in Uganda which will be sold in the Global North. Story here

Designer, educator and coach Nat Hunter has appeared on the Beyond the Numbers podcast to talk “about sustainability, circular economy, regenerative design, net zero, co-designing with insects and more”. Listen here

The Design Council’s Design for Planet festival will return in November 2022. “This year’s theme will be ACTION to help designers make their sustainability plans a reality,” promise the organisers. No details yet on location but find more here

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