About Greengaged

Greengaged is a not for profit organisation founded in 2008 by Sophie Thomas from thomas.matthews, Sarah Johnson from Re Design and Anne Chick from The Sustainable Design Research Centre at Kingston University.

Greengaged aims to advance the design industry’s capacity to respond positively to key environmental challenges such as climate change. This is done by offering thought leadership, creating spaces for dialogue, and opportunities for knowledge sharing - within the industry and beyond.

Sophie Thomas

Sophie runs the communication design agency thomas.matthews, a trail-blazer in innovative sustainable design, which she co-founded in 1998. She is an ambassador for the cause through her lecturing and in her role as trustee to the Design Council and has co-founded the designer’s resource Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest.

Sarah Johnson

Sarah runs the social enterprise [re]design an organisation that propagates sustainable actions through design. [re]design promote products and projects that are friendly to people and planet, and partner with a wide range of organisations to pioneer sustainable innovation.

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thomasmatthews.com

three-trees.org

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redesigndesign.org

Anne Chick

Anne is Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre and heads up the new MA on Design for Development at Kingston University. She has been an academic pioneer in sustainability for over fifteen years and her sustainable design research, knowledge transfer and educational work are acknowledged worldwide.

Kate Andrews

With an array of socially focused clients under her belt, Kate is an independent communications designer and consultant. In 2008, Kate set up and led the digital communications for greengaged and has since joined the team to assist its invaluable online presence. Kate is currently studying an MA in Design Writing Criticism at London College of Communication.

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kingston.ac.uk

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kateandrews.wordpress.com

About Us
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Articles

greengaged material survey – the results are in!

By Sophie Thomas on Mar 26, 2010 at 04:29 PM | 0 comments

As part of Materials Day at this year’s greengaged event we ran a survey to find out about designers favourite materials

A Starck Reality

By Sophie Thomas on Oct 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM | 1 comments

Greengaged co-founder Sophie Thomas raises her criticism of Philippe Starck's Design for Life series, currently airing on BBC2.

Designing With Intent

By Dan Lockton on Sep 23, 2009 at 01:34 PM | 0 comments

Brunel University Researcher, Dan Lockton, writes on Behaviour Change and Designing with Intent. Edited by Kate Andrews.

Exploring Behaviour Change Barriers at Greengaged

By Ed Gillespie on Sep 22, 2009 at 02:59 PM | 1 comments

Greengaged curator, Ed Gillespie offers a great summary feature about the happenings on day one of Greengaged 2009...

Greengaged at the Design Council for the London Design Festival 2009

By Sophie Thomas on Jul 20, 2009 at 09:14 PM | 0 comments

We have announced our guest curators and their themes for the London Design Festival, Sept 2009, hosted by the Design Council

The Age of Stupid

By Kate Andrews on Jun 22, 2009 at 02:17 AM | 0 comments

Pitched to be this year's most talked-about climate change film, The Age of Stupid is a new movie from director Franny Armstrong