Park Hill Phase 2 by Mikhail Riches, the latest stage of the refurb of the famous brutalist housing estate in Sheffield, has been named Deezeen’s sustainable project of the year. All the winners in the sustainability category of the Dezeen Awards can be viewed here

Manufacturing company Batch.Works has teamed up with the Design Council and design consultancy Seymourpowell to “set a challenge for design students across the UK, to create a sustainable product that meets real community needs around the climate crisis”. Students in the UK (from GCSE to master’s level) can submit ideas of products to be locally manufactured by Batch Works using its 3D printing resources. Deadline: 15 December. Details here

Creative Carbon Scotland and member organisations of Scotland’s Green Arts Initiative have launched the Green Arts Charter. The charter “aims to inspire, support and provide a framework to deliver the climate action needed to achieve transformational change in Scotland’s cultural sector and beyond”. Full details here

What Design Can Do is putting recordings of talks from its recent conference in Mexico City up on YouTube, beginning with MoMA’s Senior Curator at the Department of Architecture and Design, Paola Antonelli. In her talk, Paola looks at how urgent social, environmental, and technological issues are being tackled by designers today.

A new study from the UK Advertising Standards Authority has found “widespread misunderstandings around common terms such as ‘biodegradable’, ‘compostable’ and ‘recyclable’,” among consumers, The Guardian reports. “The ASA research also showed how participants routinely believed environmental claims in advertising, assuming that brands would not be able to make claims without verification or evidence, particularly when a company made a claim using statistics. Those surveyed said they wanted clear information about what was in products, where it would be disposed, how long that would take and what the outcome of the disposal would be,” the story says, noting that the ASA is calling for more clarity around terminology. Full story here

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