Jiaqi is a graduating student from Glasgow School of Art. At the stage three project, she showed her interest in sustainability.

Fashion cycles have become shorter and various new merchandise has been launched onto the market every season. A linear model of ‘make, use, dispose’ is causing a waste problem globally. The over-consumption of clothes plays its part in deepening the main environmental challenges. The aims of the project are to people explore their wardrobes and inspire them to consume less.

I designed interfaces of an APP. This APP offers a holistic solution, which helps users make sensible purchase decisions and provide post-consumption services to increase the lifetime of garments. The APP will make users change the disposable culture into sustainable lifestyle.

Hello, everyone, I am Zhuofan Chen. This project improves the recycling service of old clothes.

How often does each garment be used in my wardrobe? I asked myself this question when I was planning to move back to China. And where should these old clothes go? How could it be if everyone wastes several clothes? Is there any solution to cover it out?

This service has three innovative points:

Recognizable logo and online-to-offline model: Although many brands have the recycling service, they did not have recognizable marketing things, only some of the consumers know the service. Moreover, they did not have an online cloud system to operate the service.
The regular notification of ethical disposal: It sends the e-mails to the memberships regularly through account management. It not only reminds the consumer to donate their old clothes but also provides the ethical knowledge of caring to those non-fast fashion fans.
A win-win mechanism for the provider and users: On the one hand, the consumer could have a more convenient way of ethical disposal. Meanwhile, they could get rewards for it. On the other hand, the retailer could have a better reputation, and they could attract more potential consumers n this way.

Happiness Observation: Mental health support activity

“Exploring your world by observing happiness around you”

This activity and toolkit are designed to use as a beginning of a self-recovery journey and as a template in mental health support groups. The concept structure of this activity is based on a design tool called stakeholder map integrated with CHIME recovery model.

Insights: lack of motivation for self-recovery is one of the main barriers among some people having mental health issues. Voluntary organisation as a secondary support plays a significant role to support them during self-management. The current support focuses on “what is wrong with their emotion, what they are struggling, how it affects day to day activities and how to address causes of negative emotion”. However, for some people who have a lack of motivation for self-recovery, sometimes, it can make the thing worst because of only looking at deeper negative causes and bad things.

Objectives: Thus, the objectives of the activity are to focus on a bright side in the mental health support by looking at what resources people have, what people can do rather than putting order to do things. The activity will allow people to reflect and explore their aspect of positivity instead of negativity to get motivation and inspiration from each other with a more constructive way. Finally, for a pinnacle value, they might be able to look back on the unique aspect of them from small steps to bigger steps to gain the motivation and positive drive for self-recovery through creative storytelling activity.

Brief Scenario: Participants will reflect their positivity into five areas of happiness observation, from the core of oneself, namely E: empowerment and I: identity, and move wider to C: connectedness, H: hope and M: meaning, by picking up the conversational cards to explore particular keywords, or even open-ended questions; who, what, where, when (with or without facilitator, depending on conditions of attendees)

Hello there, my name is Paddy.

I am an aspiring designer with an interest in the intersection between design and business. My background is rooted in the theoretical study of International Relations, and Economics in subjects for Environmental and Behavioural Economics both at the University of Strathclyde.

This project was completed in partnership with my parent’s business, BGL Contracts, and is focused on exploring energy-awareness as part of a strategic change within businesses and their quality goals to become more energy-efficient. The UN Sustainable Development Goals that have been ambitiously set for 2030 should be relevant for businesses and organisations across the public and private sector, as well as in social enterprises and the third sector. This is all whilst considering that Scotland the very ambitious target of becoming a net-zero carbon society by 2045, requiring more collaboration and innovation, firstly in technology but then also in strategy.

Therefore, the proposed solution of this project will continue to be a work-in-progress. In the aspiration of achieving continued knowledge exchange and implementation of best practices, I believe the targets that have been set out by the United Nation’s SDGs and governments around the world need to be better understood and integrated in both small business and major corporations. I support the view that the provision of behavioural insights tools and partnerships with energy-hubs such as Zero Waste Scotland might well provide the long-term behavioural change required to make individuals and businesses more energy-aware and energy-efficient.

MSc International Management and Design Innovation has prepared me well to start applying new approaches to environmental and energy policy through themes of the circular economy within my parent’s business. Continuing to build partnerships and engage in co-design focused upon organisational strategic changes will be essential to long-term changes. Building on existing strengths and identifying weaknesses will help private sector businesses to introduce new energy policy that might help to future proof both staff and organisational interests.

Ultimately, Glasgow has faced redevelopment throughout its history and may of came up short. However, the electrification and redevelopment of this city through innovative energy-based approaches may provide the basis for enabling change and providing new opportunities. It is essential for individuals and businesses to seek out these opportunities, to become energy-aware by increasing efficiency and making an effort to develop innovative green strategies for their existing organisations or when under-taking new business ventures.

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I’m Yurie. I’m from Brazil but moved to the UK more than 10 years ago. I have diverse experience working in graphic design, engineering and in the Embassy of Brazil and the Brazilian Army. Somehow, I was even awarded a Brazilian Navy medal.

Along this path through different fields, I questioned how I could combine my skills as an adaptable, creative and analytical problem solver. The International Management and Design Innovation MSc suited me perfectly and I was really happy to receive the Adam Smith Business School Excellence Scholarship (UK/EU).

The Glasgow School of Art and the Adam Smith Business School brought engaging content and encouraged socially conscious projects, whilst still grounded in business principles – precisely what I wanted to do.

So here it is my final project, researching Food Systems and proposing a solution to build an alternative food supply for Glasgow that is both scalable and applicable to other places.

The design element has always been a part of my life from a very young age, from helping my grandfather with his carpentry work, to working in the restaurant with the design of new venues, leaflets, and dishes.

My interest in design has drawn me to study interior design at university, which developed my skills and understanding of the design process.

During the last twelve months through studying at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of art, my comprehension of the design process continues to be refined. I am eager to see the journeys and new perspectives, design, will show me in the future.

Living after Sea Level Rise in Bangkok, Thailand

This project start with UNEP report that While the population in the world is increasing, but the amount of land on earth is decreasing and is being replaced by water. It provides many negative effects around the world. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand also faces with sea-level rise situation by 2050. The objective of this project is to explore the solution that helps people live-with sea-level rise area effectively and sustainably focus on Bangkok, Thailand.

Solution: Dwelling for flood after sea level rise. “Not only a house but activities inside will be considered”

In this dwelling, there are facilities that can support a normal life and life during flood. A story during flood would change in a way that makes life easier and can live in a house more effective. Users can live both on land and on water with utilities. It could combine with a technology that happens in current life that is an application to alert flood.

Hello, I am Yian Chen from Msc International Management & Design Innovation. In my recent work, I explored on an emerging issues, supporting museums to survive from COVID-19.

During pandemic, 90% of museums around the globe closed the doors during lockdown. 10% of museums all over the world may never reopen. Considering the roles museums play on collections, individuals and communities, there are impacts when the museums close that we should care about.

Several insights are gathered through my desk research and participatory research, providing clear direction for my further idea development stage. My solution focused on how to keep the financial sustainability of the museums and how to make them more resilient when facing the other crisis.

The essential theme of my concept is to improve the digital engagement through the collaboration with the theatres and the visitor sharing between the museums members to raise the digital awareness of the public and make them get used to online visiting. The co-created plays and the immersive system are the attraction to achieve this goal.

In the short term, not only the incomes will increase, but the costs will also increase, which would become a challenge. However, once the branding grows up and the online habits are developed, it is easy for museums to do more charging program through the Internet such as charging families activities and more audiences would be involved. At that time, museums would be more financially sustainable without overly relying on incomes from the physical site and would become more resilient even there is an inevitable crisis.

Having a multidisciplinary background in social sciences, business and design, my core research interests resolve around the interface of remote labour, communication, and work culture. I am convinced that in order to formulate an approach towards remote work concepts that acknowledges the practice’s benefits, we must fundamentally rethink the way in which we perceive work.

Traditionally, the office has provided us with a designated working space, more or less firm working hours, and a commute to transition between work and non-work domains. Remote work and working from home in particular removed these boundaries. Many workers identify this development as the cause of considerable stress as the resulting clash of their different roles leads to competing and overwhelming demands.

The guide “How To Work Remotely” is a list of advice that I want to give remote workers in order to make remote work work. These are based on my own experiences, the findings of my research, and the observation of best practices.