PPRC is excited to be a partner in “Future Island-Island”, a £4.625m Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project led by Professor Justin Magee at Ulster University. 

One four new ‘Green Transition Ecosystems’ across the UK, ‘Future Island-Island’ aims to bolster awareness and improve engagement with the public towards an intuitive, eco-friendly waste management culture. 

The project will use co-design, applied design, knowledge exchange and worldbuilding using 3D immersive technology, to shape new design-led green economies over a 24-month period focusing on six challenge-based objectives: 

• Protect rivers, loughs, and seacoast from plastic littering;
• Rethink product and plastics waste management by upcycling, recycling and reuse;
• Rethink organic waste for textiles and composite fibre applications;
• Redesign more sustainable food, water and landscape solutions;
• Improve municipal waste management systems and performance;
• Protect Northern Ireland’s only offshore inhabited island, Rathlin, from any negative impacts of tourism and sustainably manage island resources, while boosting innovation through a digital design transformation. 

For further information, visit University of Ulster News Page.