Glacier Requiem, an image of the Rhône Glacier covered in UV protection sheets in order to slow its rapid melting due to climate change has earned Paulo Sousa The Royal Society of Biology’s Photographer of the Year prize. All the winning work can be seen on the RSB’s website here

A regenerative world? What does that mean? asks the RSA’s Director of Design & Innovation, Joanna Choukeir in this in-depth review of the organisation’s work in establishing “how to be, how to think and how to act to enable a more regenerative world”. Read it here

The series Dead White Man (image of the project above by Dani Pujalte) by Jeremy Hutchison, currently on show as part of the British Textile Biennial in Blackburn, aims to address our over-consumption of fashion and how it is affecting Africa. Creative Review interviews the artist here (subscriber-only content)

21 October was International Repair Day: to coincide, Design Week spoke to the Restart Project, a social enterprise ten years into its mission to reintroduce a culture of repair to the UK, as well as to the Design Council and Anglepoise, in order to understand how the design industry is responding to the challenges of “design to repair”. Story here

Also on Design Week, a report on Fairphone founder Bas van Abel’s talk at last week’s Design for Planet Festival. Most tech companies make money by “selling as many phones as possible”, van Abel said, which is in direct conflict with repairability models. In a bid to overcome this, he devised “success indicators” based around selling as many phones as possible but also using the phone for as long as possible. “I can’t sell phones to people that already have a Fairphone or people who don’t need a Fairphone so, as a designer, I had to think about how to design a company in that way and how to get shareholders on board with it,” he said. Read the full report here

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