On 26 June, the Royal College of Art announced the ten finalists for the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s 2024 Terra Carta Design Lab. Launched in 2021, the Terra Carta Design Lab is a student-led, global competition for high-impact solutions addressing the climate and biodiversity crisis, with previous winners including a wearable device for cows to reduce methane emissions, a start-up spearheading the capture and monitoring of tyre wear, the first 100 per cent recyclable and chemical-free outdoor performance textile, and aerodynamic seed pods made from food waste for plant and tree restoration.
'I am thrilled that the Terra Carta Design Lab has gathered momentum this year to include four international design schools,' says Jony Ive, who launched the project in collaboration with His Majesty King Charles III, then HRH The Prince of Wales. 'The lab elevates the rigorous and imaginative ideas from all these students, and demonstrates the power and importance of multidisciplinary design and collaboration in meeting global challenges.'
