A project that asks how to design packaging to encourage consumers to recycle it and a 'biobox' to help people learn about biomaterials are included in our latest school show by students at Birmingham City University.
The Collaborative Laboratory is a multidisciplinary initiative at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. This year the students have collaborated with creative partners, including the Birmingham City Council Environment and Sustainability and Birmingham School of Jewellery.

Birmingham City University
School: Birmingham City University, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

Courses: Collaborative Laboratory

CoLab Coordinator: Alessandro Columbano
School statement:
"The Collaborative Laboratory is a multifaceted initiative embedded within the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. We focus on design research, entrepreneurial community engagement, design innovation, collective urbanism, installations and structures, and trans-disciplinary exploration with collaborative practice as a critical working methodology. "It acts as a vehicle to directly engage the school, our staff and students to collaborate with partners across a varied field of artistic disciplines and scales.
"Projects intervene across the city ? acting as a laboratory to test our ideas against. We explore liveness issues ? the relevancy of the creative arts, design industries and all its disciplines to challenge the limits and crossovers between them ? deve...