Green Grads - a platform for planet healing design - heads to Manchester & London.

Green Grads - a platform for recent UK graduates with planet healing ideas - is heading to Manchester and London this autumn.

Founded by Barbara Chandler, best known for her long-running pages in the Evening Standard, alongside collaborator, Michael Czerwinski, Green Grads has exhibited 200+ innovations as part of its roster, covering a wide range of disciplines, from art to engineering, product and furniture design, materials innovation, animation, graphics, ceramics, glass, textiles, fashion, interior design and architecture.

Now enlisting its fifth cohort, Green Grads will head to Manchester this month. Taking place from 16-19 October, at Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Victoria Baths, 25 new Green Grads from the recently curated cohort of 2025 will "fill the idiosyncratic blue changing cubicles of the iconic art nouveau re-purposed Victoria Baths, Manchester.

"Eco-activists all, they are bringing new ideas for biomaterials and biophilia, nurturing nature, creative use of waste, natural dyes and natural materials, and much more. There will also be a shop curated by Green Grad Laura Wigham, with cards, zines, posters, prints and more from Green Grads past and present."

"Our vision is to fuel UK environmental action with new talent from UK Universities.” - Barbara Chandler, founder/curator of Green Grads

Visitors to the show can experience Leah Gasson's wedding dress with a bodice woven from grass roots, and paper embedded with seeds - compostable whereupon the seeds will grow for a lasting memorial. Gagandeep Heer's robust material from coffee grounds that can be press moulded. Maddie Sturmey's raw waste wool topped stools. And Robert Radcliffe's thatched shelf unit - a plea for the revival of heritage crafts.

Over in London on 15-16 November, at Yorkton Workshops, a further 25 new Green Grads who, in the main, have not exhibited previously will show ground-breaking eco-projects for art, design, craft and technology.

“Green Grads is an inarguable double whammy: promoting new talent and the environment at one and the same time. Our forward-looking outward-facing sponsors publicly affirm their support of these two vital causes." - Barbara Chandler, founder/curator Green Grads

For more information on visiting the upcoming Green Grads shows in Manchester, and London, click here. It's not to be missed.