Public Funding for Source Conscience Ltd

This research project aims to help define and create a new, systemic practice and platform to approach environmental initiatives within cities that encourages citizen engagement. This enables funding and action to be deployed in line with ideas and needs in a place-based context. The research will be inclusive and accessible, operating across societal and socioeconomic levels (e.g. age, income, status), to ensure a broad reach for depth of responses. It will use the 4 voices of design approach to ensure the voice of experience, those for whom the project is aimed at, get their perspective and needs into the project. The result of such a platform would be an emergence of local, environmental governance that is responsive and contextual, bottom-up and participatory. Such a governance landscape has the potential not only to be far more effective in facing environmental challenges, but would also have far broader benefits for the local community in terms of economy, culture, quality of life, empowerment, etc.

A **platform enabled by AI & ML t**o allow creatives such as fashion **designers to do What if analysis** to see which materials and suppliers **create more sustainable and circular products**. By swapping one material for another crucial changes will make a big difference. We can share low hanging fruit, light lifts and where to go to find them. We will use Brand Conscience's scoring mechanism & leading industry data to keep abreast of new developments in materials science.