Former Apple designer Jony Ive has teamed up with The Prince of Wales to launch an initiative that will encourage Royal College of Art students to propose designs that tackle climate change.
Called Terra Carta Design Lab, the project "will invite some of the world's most talented design students to design high-impact, low-cost solutions for nature, people and planet".
It was launched on Saturday to mark 100 days to go until the COP26 climate conference.
Students and recent alumni of the Royal College of Art in London will be invited to form teams to submit proposals that will help improve biodiversity, tackle greenhouse gas emissions and develop new social and economic models.
Prince Charles (above) has teamed up with Jony Ive to launch Terra Carta Design Lab "I'm incredibly proud to be part of the Terra Carta Design Lab founded by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales," said Ive, who left Apple in 2019 to start San Fransisco design studio LoveFrom.
"It's a visionary and imaginative way of helping address the world's increasingly urgent environmental problems," added the former vice president of industrial design at Apple, who was appointed chancellor of the London post-graduate art school in 2017.
"Often the biggest challenges demand the most ingenious, most creative thinking, which is why I'm so excited about the work that the RCA students will be able to contribute through this collaboration. I know that their creativity and inventiv...