Student Design Awards winners: Planet generation

Brief 4: How might we create joyful place-based opportunities for people across generations to improve planetary health?

Winner: Toast to Roast

A digital application and event series that aims to reduce loneliness and create meaningful friendships between neighbours of different generations by eating toast together.

Toast to Roast encourages neighbourhood friendships through low commitment toast, building community trust to eventually cook a roast dinner together, sharing food and energy resources. With 62% of the UK population worried about the rising cost-of-living crisis impacting their social life, this design proposal advocates sharing resources aiding people and planetary health.

Commendations

Highly commended

Elizabeth Mackey, Northumbria University, England

The Cloth Library: A social enterprise which provides the infrastructure necessary to better utilise unsellable clothing within the charity shop network, making it a valuable resource for local communities of designers and makers.