Kajsa Ståhl works under the name of Åbäke - a transdisciplinary graphic design collective, founded in 2000 by Patrick Lacey, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa and Maki Suzuki in London, after meeting at the Royal College of Art. Much of their work concentrates on the social aspect of design and the strength that collaboration can bring to a project. Kajsa also runs Dent-de-Leone a small independent publisher located in London, distinctive for its collaboration directly with artists and designers to produce its books.

Set up in 2017, social enterprise Bubble & Squeak began when a group of local school children aged 5-12 years, from Old Oak Primary School & Old Oak Community Centre, learnt all about food waste and decided to set up their own surplus food stall for the local community. Their aim is to take edible surplus food such as fruit and vegetables from local businesses, markets and supermarkets and redistribute it to the local community on a 'pay as you feel' basis.

Bubble & Squeak hosts volunteer-led community events, family art workshops, monthly get-togethers, after school clubs alongside their surplus food stalls. The children also create and sell their own products, including wonky fruit and veg artwork, greeting cards and chutneys.

www.bubblesqueakeat.com

Dent-de-Leone is a small independent publisher located in London, distinctive for its collaboration directly with artists and designers to produce its books. It was founded by Martino Gamper, Kajsa Ståhl and Maki Suzuki (both from design collective Åbäke) in 2004 with the publication of a book by Gamper.

https://www.dentdeleone.com

Established in 1992, Dina Foods is one of the UK’s leading artisan producers of specialist Mediterranean foods, which include a range of authentic flatbreads, confectionery and savouries. Dina Foods combines a heritage steeped in Mediterranean traditions and family recipes, with a strong focus on using only the finest ingredients and a commitment to product innovation. Having grown from a small family-run business, Dina Foods has become a market leader supplying national and international customers.

www.dinafoods.com

Dot Laser was founded to offer a high quality laser cutting and engraving service together with design service on demand. The company offers a wide range of laser cut materials, ready to go on their machines to a competitive price, clear on-line payment system and with a next day delivery service.

www.dotlaser.co.uk

DYN-Metal is a specialist non-ferrous foundry and machinist company, producing copper-based alloys that offer unique benefits solving sliding wear problems in mechanical systems, operating in the heavy engineering sector. DYN-Metal owes its very existence to the discovery and development in the 1930’s, by its founders, of a process that resulted in a dramatic improvement in the wear life of bronze alloys. This process has led to the development of a unique range of wear resistant alloys that have proven to offer typically a three-fold improvement in life over untreated alloys of the same composition.

Since establishing in London in 1937 (locating to Park Royal in 1977), the company has progressed and adapted to changes to the UK manufacturing Industry, moving from producing solely processed alloy ingots to products in the form of cast rod, tube and plate and machining castings into finished items such as bearing bushes and slide plates. As such, the company now boasts a very well equipped machine shop embracing the latest CNC machines operating up to 5 axes. As a result, though DYN-Metal is a small SME, it enjoys strong working relationships with ’Blue Chip’ companies operating in the Manufacturing and Maritime sectors of Heavy Engineering.

www.dynmetal.co.uk

Ealing Community Aid is a community interest company that grew out of the Covid-19 Mutual Aid initiative. During the first lockdown in 2020, their Mutual Aid team facilitated and organised numerous forms of practical and emotional support for those living and working in the London Borough of Ealing.

Ealing Community Aid is invested in organising local efforts to nurture and develop local connections for the benefit of all the community. Activities and projects include raising funds to provide food and essentials for those in need; organising events and activities to uplift, inspire, educate and unite, and providing access to important and impartial information and advice.

www.ealingcommunityaid.org

Erica Eyres lives and works in Glasgow. Through videos, drawings and sculptures, Erica’s work explores narrative fallacies that complicate the viewer's understanding of the author's subjective truth, and problematises the notion of the autobiographical. Erica’s sculptures feature ceramic wigs, balloons and gloves that are rendered flat, as though cast aside. Despite their obvious reference to costumes and disguise, the wigs and gloves become un-wearable in their concrete copies. These clay versions suggest a kind of relief sculpture that is figurative, yet deflated and absent of human form.

Adam Farah is an artist and composer born-n-raised in London. They also practice under and within the name free.yard. free.yard is an ongoing situational and unstable project fluctuating between and within research, artistic and curatorial practices.

Harlesden Mutual Aid is a community-led organisation, set up in early 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Volunteers deliver regular meals and food parcels once a week and carry out routine services like shopping and collecting medication, to support the Harlesden Community. Harlesden Mutual Aid works in partnership with Salvation Army Harlesden, Community Response Kitchen, Fresh Horizons CNB, Brent Council and local resident groups. Their aim is to make Harlesden a safer community, by promoting resident involvement and social interaction.

www.harlesdenmutualaid.co.uk

Joy Bonfield-Colombara is an Artist-Goldsmith working in Bloomsbury, London. After graduating from Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Glasgow School of Art in 2014, Joy was taught by two master goldsmiths, before completing her MA in Jewellery and Metal at the Royal College of Art. Joy’s pieces often start with a deconstruction of a classical thought – challenging existing ideas on specific mythologies, material perceptions and the parameters of preciousness.

In 2012, Joy was granted an exchange to Hiko Mizuno in Tokyo, and studied under master craftsman Kimiaki Kageyama. Whilst studying at the RCA, Joy was awarded a research fellowship to KCUA in Kyoto, the oldest art school in Japan, and taught by revered Urushi Artists’ Fumie Sasai and Kurimoto Natsuki. Joy subsequently won the International Graduate Prize from Gallery MARZEE and the Overall Excellence Prize from Theo Fennel. Joy’s work has been featured in Forbes, Elle, Luncheon, AnOther and i-D.

Kerschoffset is a printing house, based in Zagreb, Croatia. Founded in 1969, Kerschoffset has always invested in printing technology as well as human resources, and today the company has over 150 employees.

https://kerschoffset.hr

Lola Lazaro Hinks is an artist working primarily in kiln formed glass and works from a collective studio in South East London. Her work spans sculpture, architectural models and designs for the home. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2018 with an MA in Ceramic and Glass and a BA in Fine Art Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2012. She works with a diverse range of transparent and opaque qualities and is deeply influenced by the phenomenology of architectural spaces, the embodiment of the visual sense and relations between public and private space.

www.lolalazarohinks.com

May Rosenthal Sloan is a Glasgow based, London-bred curator, writer and educator. She co-curated the V&A exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate (2019) and was formerly a lecturer in Modern American History at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are wide ranging but include food and food systems, storytelling and constructions of identity, and the role of design and art in everyday life.

Michael Marriott is a designer, who works in lots of different ways and makes lots of different things, often using ordinary elements like wing nuts and plastic buckets, combining them with new, reclaimed or found materials ranging from oak to plywood to peg-board. His work is characterised by a pared back functionalism and a supremely honest approach to materials, forming objects, which have a pure structural logic, and are thought provoking as much as pleasing to the eye. Michael has designed products for a range of clients including Very Good & Proper, Established & Sons and SCP, as well as for his own web shop, woodmetalplastic.com.

Raisa Kabir is an artist and weaver who utilises woven text/textile, sound, video and performance to address cultural anxieties surrounding nationhood, textile identities and the cultivation of borders. Her (un)weaving performances comment on histories of trans-national power, global production and geographies of labour. She has exhibited work at The Whitworth, The Tetley, Raven Row, Textile Arts Center NYC, and the Center for Craft Creativity and Design US.

Saboon Alee is a family business, based in South London that produces luxury organic handmade soap. With over 20 years' experience producing organic cosmetics for well-known companies such as Neals Yard Remedies and Nourish Skincare, a few years ago Saboon Alee decided to start their own venture, producing their own luxury handcrafted soaps. Their soaps are handmade using the finest ethically sourced organic ingredients, enriched with natural oils and mineral clays and delicately scented with essential oils, which have unique benefits for the skin. Saboon Alee soaps are soft and gentle on the skin, and suitable to use on hands, face and body.

www.saboonalee.co.uk

The West London Food Innovation Centre (WLFIC) specialises in providing innovative product development services to food and beverage companies, helping to develop products from concept stage through to an initial commercially viable prototype. The WLFIC supports customers with various bespoke services such as product development, formulation and/or reformulation of products and provide a range of complementary services such as sensory analysis, technical support, shelf life analysis, nutritional analysis and links to pilot plant production facilities.

www.uwl.ac.uk/business-services/west-london-food-innovation-lab