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Nigel TAYLOR Published
September 13, 2025
It’s billed as a “unique collaborative design project to explore and unlock the power of renewable circularity”. And a combination of Finnish biochemicals firm UPM, and Central Saint Martins/University of the Arts London is aiming to achieve that.
The combo has provided a platform for students to reimagine a range of everyday products made from sustainably sourced bio-based materials “showing the possibilities for a future beyond fossils”.
The resulting design concepts “have been developed that have the potential to disrupt traditional product concepts and trigger transformative designs enable sufficiency, recyclability and reuse as well as the substitution of fossil materials” they announced.
And the winning concepts have been unveiled at Design Transforms ’23, an exhibition in conjunction with London Design Festival at the Lethaby Gallery in King’s Cross, London, that runs until 15 October.
During 2025, a team of 50 Product and Industrial Design students from CSM tackled a brief to build on a set of new renewable materials and design everyday products that are embracing the trio of reduced material use, introduction of new, more sustainable materials and supporting recyclability.
The designs were evaluated by a panel of expert judges for their design quality, contribution to renewable circularity, commercial viability and their potential to disrupt conventional thinking in multiple industries.
Eight shortlisted concepts include a mono-material and modular motorcycle armour, a modular shoe designed to address the prevailing issue of shoe waste by prioritising repairability, and a transformative rationing stamp setting rigorous standards to authenticate sustainability claims.
Martin Ledwon, Vice-President Stakeholder Relations, UPM Biorefining & Technology, said: “Creating a vision for… defossilisation is a task that goes beyond one company — it’s a collective effort, best driven by ingenious minds and disruptive ideas. In this spirit, we partnered with Central Saint Martins where generations of designers are educated to think disruptively and to design against the big challenges of our times. These new designs…undoubtedly have the potential to inspire brands and designers to exit fossil-based materials.”
Nick Rhodes, Programme Director, Product Ceramic and Industrial Design, at Central Saint Martins, added: “Through our stimulating partnership with UPM, we have gained an invaluable opportunity to engage with concrete and pressing needs in design for manufacturing.
“This collaboration has challenged us to develop compelling propositions that not only demonstrate but advocate for the urgent transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources in manufacturing materials. This partnership is both challenging and inspiring, aligning with our commitment to transformation through design to a more responsible and sustainable future.”