Organisation profile

Organisation profile

The Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) is multi-disciplinary by its nature, it incorporates diverse fields from humanities and arts to sciences and engineering. This interdisciplinary research team seeks to use design and creativity to develop, innovate and educate while finding solutions to challenges faced across both public and private sector industries for the benefit of people and society.  

About the Research Centre

The CSF applies practice led research in design to respond to interdisciplinary enquiry around topics below:

  • Materials and Design Research
  • Alternative Leather Processing
  • Post-industrial Manufacturing
  • Textiles End of Life Strategies
  • Supply Chain Optimisation
  • Circular Economy
  • Environmental Sciences

Themes

The Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) contributes to the field of Design for Sustainability through three key intersecting areas: research, education and knowledge exchange with industry.

We aim to:

Develop internationally recognised research.

Support industry to transition to a sustainable agenda.

Develop a leading sustainable design curriculum.

Members

Special Interest Groups Leaders

  • Building a Sustainable Future – Theophilus A Shittu
  • Land Use and Biodiversity – Janet Jackson
  • Fashion and Textiles – Emmeline Child
  • Engineering and Manufacturing Initiatives – Abdeldjalil Bennecer
  • Biofabrication and Circular Economy – Friedemann Schaber
  • Greening the Toy Industry – Vicki Thomas

Live Projects

Greening the Toy Industry

This special interest research group is working with global toy manufacturers to share research and experience as the toy and licensing industries move to a more circular economy and net zero emissions model.

Scaling Solutions of Textile Waste

UKRI funded research, working with the largest charity-owned textiles collector in the U.K. SATCoL to develop design interventions that support scalable solutions to textile waste.

Research Fellows

  • Janet Jackson
  • Vicki Thomas
  • Abdeldjalil Bennecer

Visiting Fellow

Dr. Florin Popișter PhD from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania will be associated with the Centre for Sustainable Futures as Visiting Fellow in Design for Sustainability for the next 3 years, from 23 April 2025 to 28 February 2028.

 

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