Done & Dusted

A material experiment exploring the potential of one of the least glamorous things in your home. Household dust.

DISCIPLINE

MATERIAL EXPLORATION

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

YEAR

2025

AWARDS

Vice Chancellor's Award for Sustainability DS Smith Circular Innovation Excellence Award - Shortlisted FEATURED IN DEZEEN REUTERS SKY ABC NEWS EXHIBITED AT NEW DESIGNERS LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL - MATERIAL MATTERS SURFACE DESIGN SHOW - SURFACE SPOTLIGHT GREEN GRADS

THE EXPERIMENT

What if waste was not the end of the story? Household dust is something we collect, clean up, and throw away without a second thought. Done & Dusted started with a simple question: could it become something useful instead? The idea was to explore how household dust could be collected, processed, and transformed into a new material, giving something usually discarded a second life.

What if waste was not the end of the story? Household dust is something we collect, clean up, and throw away without a second thought. Done & Dusted started with a simple question: could it become something useful instead? The idea was to explore how household dust could be collected, processed, and transformed into a new material, giving something usually discarded a second life.