About

Robert Johnson is a British designer with an MA in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. ​​In 2020, he completed his residency at the Design Museum, London, with the project Fatconomy, which presents fat as a valuable resource in urban society, illustrating the potential of discarded fats for the economy, material innovation and urban planning. Robert’s work on ‘fat as a new material’ has since been exhibited at the Tallinn Architecture Biennial in 2022 and presented during key lectures at the Cooper Union in New York, The Design Museum, London and the Industrial Design Academy of Taiwan.

In 2022 he was awarded the design fellowship by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 for advanced study and research in science, engineering, design and the built environment. During the fellowship, Robert is implementing his speculative design methods in the biofuel sectors within the UK, focusing on developing a future factory and cross-collaborative strategies on innovation labours from oil waste streams. Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Dezeen, Droog Gallery and Dutch Design Week have featured his work.