SEE MONSTER, the repurposed oil rig which was turned into an installation on Weston-super-Mare beach, has won Best of Show at the Design Week Awards. The work was created by New Substance as part of the Creativity in the UK festival. New Substance collaborated with practitioners from across STEAM sectors to create the final experience which demonstrates experiments in sustainable energy generation including a wild garden of plants and trees, irrigated by a solar-powered system on the rig. More here

And talking of awards, the RSA is bringing its Pupil Design Awards, Student Design Awards and Catalyst funding together under the new banner of the Design for Life Awards. The aim is to “offer collaborative and inclusive learning experiences for children, learners and entrepreneurs helping them grow the capabilities and ideas needed for a regenerative world”. More details here

Just opened at London’s Hayward Gallery, Dear Earth is a “pioneering group show of artistic responses to the climate emergency”, inspired by artist Otobong Nkanga’s suggestion that ‘caring is a form of resistance’. 15 artists “explore the interdependence of ecologies and ecosystems, as well as our emotional connection with nature”. Details here

The Design Museum’s 2022/2023 Design Researchers in Residence, which is part of the Future Observatory programme, have unveiled four research projects considering how design can tackle the climate crisis. This year’s cohort – Rhiarna Dhaliwal, Marianna Janowicz, Isabel Lea and James Peplow Powell – took the theme of ‘Islands’. Their projects variously consider language as a tool to understand climate change, the ecological impact of deep-sea mining, drying laundry as an isolated practice that could be better done communally, and the reintegration of pigeons into city life as an example of interspecies collaboration. An exhibition of the projects is on until September. Design Week has more details here

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