Schools and Education

A design sprint with the University of Surrey and We Job Box

University Programme | University of Surrey | June 2026A Double Diamond design-thinking workshop that refused to let teams jump to solutions — built around...

Build a Bamboo Bike: our challenge for 100 young people with We Job Box

Employability Programme | Virtual campus | October 2025Our first We Job Box session — a sustainability challenge run twice to 100 college students aged...

Psychology students, prison case studies: our Aston workshop with We Job Box

University Programme | Aston University | June 2026Second-year psychology undergraduates spent two and a half hours designing behaviour-change solutions for real problems from our...

Sustainability and entrepreneurship with We Job Box: the Digital Futures Accelerator

Employability Programme | Digital Futures | February 2026Two sessions in a day, twenty-five young people each, on a DSIT-funded programme evaluated by Aston University.

Build kits that travel: how bamboo bike-building reaches schools we never visit

Product | Schools, Colleges, Community Groups | 2015–presentIn 2015, Bamboo Bicycle Club created its educational kit — a self-contained package of materials, jig components,...

We opened our doors for the Blackhorse Lane design weekend

Over one September weekend, anyone who walked past our Walthamstow studio could pick up a piece of bamboo and have a go at building...

Frame-building in Stoke: two college groups, a public masterclass, and Brilliant Bamboo

In early March 2025 we spent three days in Stoke-on-Trent teaching people to build with bamboo — first two groups of further-education students, then...

Teaching STEM with purpose: how schools build with bamboo

A bamboo bike is a curriculum you can hold. In schools and universities across the UK, students learn material science, structural design and sustainable...