With fellow student Aura Murillo , Louise launched an eco-burial service that uses crushed oyster shells and bone ash to build reef structures that enhance marine growth
With fellow student Aura Murillo , Louise launched an eco-burial service that uses crushed oyster shells and bone ash to build reef structures that enhance marine growth - An Imperial College London alumnus has won an Arts Foundation Futures Award Fellowships 2023 for her innovations that tackle climate change. The Dyson School of Design Engineering 's Louise Skajem , who graduated from Imperial and Royal College of Art's MA/MSc Global Innovation Design in 2022, won the £10,000 Fellowship Award for Bio Design. Her work uses material exploration and biomimicry to design innovations that tackle climate change. The winners were revealed at an award ceremony on 23 February 2023, presented in partnership with Leeds 2023: Year of Culture , featuring a special welcome address from British visual artist, Claudette Johnson MBE. This award will also allow me to move my experiments out of my kitchen and find a suitable studio space, which I am very excited about. Louise Skajem MA/MSc Global Innovation Design alum Louise said: "There are so many talented people working in this field, so I was very honoured to be shortlisted in the first place. I am still processing the fact that I won the Award and how this changes a lot for me going forward." Her most recent project, Resting Reef - launched with fellow Imperial alum Aura Murillo - is an eco-burial service that uses crushed oyster shells and bone ash to build reef structures that enhance marine growth.
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