By designing pressed metal joints for building bamboo frameworks to try to reduce poverty and bad living conditions, Central St. Martins’ graduate Sang Min Yu created Relieving Poverty through Design. A project designed for giving South East Asia’s rural communities a chance to work with local materials and produce furniture themselves. This project allows them to be self-sufficient, engaged and be responsible for their local living areas.

Natural Factory by David Bennett.

Designed by American artist Julianne Sota and dubbed Beastie’s Labyrinth, this art piece explores the idea of taking people into an environment which is in contrast with their reality while being surrounded by the most earthy and crafty materials.