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PRODUCT
DESIGN

Looop - Design
Educates Award

2022 Gold Prize

Evritania, Greece

aveee Design is pleased to
announce that Looop is
Wthe Gold Prize winner for
the Design Educates Award 2022 in the
Product Design category.
Looop is a cleaning kit for washing
reusable menstruation pads for reducing
period poverty for menstruators, such as
refugees in water-scarcity regions, asylum
seekers in financial difficulties, or people people without shelter in Greece. This privacy, safety, a secure space, and access
who want to menstruate in a sustainable is the largest refugee camp on Lesbos to water and soap to clean. The minority
way. Using buoyancy force to reduce water Island and people overflowed to the Kara of them who did not struggle had either
required for washing. With injection Tepe Refugee camp, which increased finished their period or consistently
modeling, the total cost is around £3 the resource shortage condition there. relied on charities for period products.
for the whole set including the Recycled With the rapid climate changes, at least Asylumseeking menstruators are another
PPmade washing parts and pads. Expects 26 million people were forced to flee in marginalised group in terms of access to
to have a five-year lifespan which covers fear of being involved in a war owing to period products. For example, with the
the minimum time that a refugee stays in resource scarcity. The refugee crisis is one lack of economic power, people are not
the camp waiting for identity approval. of the gravest humanitarian disasters, able to get extra free pads from the charity
“Looop is a good example of the level and women suffer more vulnerabilities in when they don’t have travel money, or are
of quality and passion our nominees are this insecure journey such as widespread unable to get antibiotics when they get an
contributing to a more sustainable future.” gender-based violence in the camp. In infection from wearing pads for too long.
Nils Bader, director, Green Product particular, period poverty is overlooked Capturing the purpose of Looop Can is
Award. in refugee camps owing to the lack of data to guarantee women’s spatial mobility with
collection about menstrual health. This dignity and fundamental human rights
Inspiration & Aim of Looop affects women's ability to move freely and particularly: (1) the right to water and
Looop Can is Cheuk Laam's final access opportunities such as education, sanitation, (2) the right to health, and (3)
year product design project worked on fetching water and food resources. In the right to non-discrimination including
from September 2020 to March 2021 addidtion, menstruators change pads in no barriers to receiving education. Hence,
in Central Saint Martins. At that time, their shelter though there is no privacy, Looop Can is an affordable cleaning kit
she just heard the news about a fire rather than in shared toilets as they are for washing reusable menstruation pads
destroying Moria Camp that left 130,000 dirty and unsafe. They need to have and for reducing period poverty in water-

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