# Project Description Wooltech Hinna Khan Summary Final work Awards Nominated | MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025 Hinna is a multidisciplinary designer focusing on how material intelligence and nature’s technology can shape the future of sustainable design. She combines this with a passion for creating broader social impact, focusing on underrepresented communities such as farmers. Her recent projects include revolutionising the tech industry with all-wool electronics and rethinking wasteful painting systems through peel-and-stick paint. Hinna is a multidisciplinary designer focusing on how material intelligence and nature’s technolo... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Product and Industrial Design Graduation year 2025 The British wool industry is collapsing. Coarse-grade fleeces now fetch as little as 60p/kg and are often often discarded or burnt, costing more to shear than returns received. As a result, rare British sheep breeds are being crossbred or lost in pursuit of ‘higher value’ wool, threatening biodiversity, heritage, and local farming livelihoods. Meanwhile, the electronics industry remains heavily reliant on synthetic, extractive materials, fuelling a mounting global e-waste crisis while overlooking the exceptional technical properties of natural fibres. Wooltech pioneers fully wool-based electronics, using waste wool for both casings and conductive pathways. It eliminates the need for metal wiring, plastic housings, and metal-based PCB layers, which account for most global e waste. Through advanced manufacturing techniques the material itself become conductive where needed. The result is a fully biodegradable, easily disassembled, and materially unified system with fewer components- supporting British heritage breeds and farming communities. Final work Using advanced manufacturing, wool’s natural 52% carbon content is turned into conductive tracings—twice as cost-effective as metal with no performance trade-offs! These biodegradable pathways are formed directly from the material itself, merging manufacturing processes and reducing components. Solders are made from wool-based conductive ink, which at end-of-life dissolves in water, allowing full disassembly. The product biodegrades in 3–4 months, and components can be reused. View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Wooltech aims to pave the way for a regenerative materials future by inspiring industries to adapt heritage materials for today’s needs . It challenges outdated perceptions and encourages new uses in diverse sectors to utilise nature’s technology and material intelligence to drive innovation for a sustainable world. Research and process View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project The British wool industry is collapsing. Coarse-grade fleeces now fetch as little as 60p/kg and are often often discarded or burnt, costing more to shear than returns received. As a result, rare British sheep breeds are being crossbred or lost in pursuit of ‘higher value’ wool... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Materiality Climate Emergency Craft & Process Futures Social Justice Community Nature & Environment Histories Activism Digital Experiences Biodesign Biomaterial Technology Multisciplinary Regenerative Environment Wool Electronics Industrial CircularDesign Design Natural Sustainability