Greenpeace’s Gustav Martner interrupted one of the awards shows at the Cannes Lions ad festival to hand back a trophy he was previously awarded for VW and demand that ad agencies stop working with polluting clients. “I gave the advertising industry more than two decades of my professional life. I can’t do that anymore. I can’t accept that so much talent and money is spent on helping the fossil fuel industry literally get away with murder,” he says. Read more on Gustav and why he did it here
Design Museum Design Researcher in Residence Sanne Visser in the residency studio, weighing and sorting human hair to be recycled. Photo courtesy of Alice Doušová
Design Week reports on the climate-related projects from designers on this year’s Design Researchers in Residence programme at the Design Museum. Working to the theme of ‘restore’ the project topics include spatial and environmental injustice in London, wearable furniture, a seaweed farm designed to address freshwater pollution and a plan to recycle human hair from barber shops and hairdressers. Full story here
Dezeen has news of the Maldives Floating City, a collaboration between the country’s government and architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital. Story here
Will naming heatwaves as we do hurricanes and other weather events help citizens prepare for their effects? The Guardian has reported that Seville has become the first city in the world to adopt the measure in a year-long pilot project. “The initiative is part of a broader set of measures, from emissions reductions to decarbonisation, aimed at countering climate change,” said the city’s mayor, Antonio Muñoz. Story here
