Low Carbon Chinatown x Leeds Residency

What makes us who we are? What motivates us to do the things we do in our everyday life? Or even take action to tackle something that as an individual, would have minimal impact on, like the Climate Crisis? Low Carbon Chinatown x Leeds Residency is a residency project that explores the backgrounds a

Low Carbon Supper Club

As part of Low Carbon Chinatown, the Supper Club brings the experience indoor into neighbourhoods and institutions and engage large groups of audience on the impact of our food system on the environment. It takes the form of a Supper Club where the audience enjoy a low carbon sit down meal prepared

Low Carbon Chinatown

Low Carbon Chinatown is an environmental initiative that combines food, data science and community participation to explore different ways that we can all help respond to the Climate Crisis. Awards: Finalist Award for Seoul Design Award 2023 Featured in: London Design Festival 2022, Design Exchange

Low Carbon Pop-Up Structure

Intended as a public showcase of East & Southeast Asians’ collective commitment to tackling the climate crisis, an outdoor Pop-Up Structure built from low carbon materials and processes was used to host a series of public sit down meals featuring low carbon dishes developed in Low Carbon China

Low Carbon Chinatown Digital Cookbook

Low Carbon Chinatown Digital Cookbook is a digital tool used in Low Carbon Chinatown that enables people to learn about the impact of food on the environment, and ways to tackle the climate crisis through cooking. Awards: Finalist Award for Seoul Design Award 2023 Featured in: London Design Festival

Taking Root

Taking Root is a collaborative community growing project that explores the relationship that people living in the UK have with bamboo plants as a sustainable material, as a carbon sink, and its role and ours in tackling the climate crisis. Over 50 residents across Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Ne

Growing Riversiders

Growing Riversiders is a part-digital part-physical participatory project involving 100 families from a new urban development in London – Barking Riverside collaboratively growing a large-scale plant-based installation that represents their collective identity for the new neighbourhood. Intere

Pollution Explorers Collective Action

We showed how a ‘collective intelligence’ approach, that gets people working together on air quality issues, can help double impact. Project’s Lead at Umbrellium Air Quality (AQ) is a communal, collective and societal issue. While we don’t pretend that the responsibility lies

Climate Exploration Cookbook

Climate Exploration Cookbook is a participatory project that combines data science, digital technology, cooking, and food to help diverse communities to make sense of issues surrounding climate change through their food culture, cooking, and eating habits. The project explores people’s subjective

Pollution Explorers

Pollution Explorers is a participatory project in which people make sense of the quality of air in their environment through their innate subjective perception using wearable technology and machine learning, with the aim to harness collective actions to improve air quality in neighbourhoods. Wo

WearAQ

WearAQ combines people’s subjective perception of their environment with wearable technology and machine learning algorithms to investigate our personal agency and responsibility in tackling air quality issues. Project’s Lead Designer at Umbrellium Presented at: Mutek Festival 2017,