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 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 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.
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.
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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On Wednesday, Greengaged warmly welcomed Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture to the curatorial stand. Before being joined by his speakers Melissa Sterry, Belina Raffy, Julian Vincent and Andy Middleton, Pawlyn began his day entitled "Biomimicry in Design: Learning from Nature" with his definition; "Biomimcry is looking at nature as a source of new sustainable solutions.”
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 22, 2009 at 04:47 PM | 0 comments
Is biomimicry at the core of your design process? Join Michael Pawlyn tomorrow at Greengaged to find out how it could be! All those in attendance tomorrow will be given the opportunity to win a place on a small group tour around The Economic Botany Collection at Kew Gardens, with Collections Manager Mark Nesbitt. Register here for the last few places at Biomimicry in Design: Learning from Nature.
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM | 0 comments
On Wednesday, 23rd September, Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture, will host day three of this years greengaged hub, Biomimicry in Design: Learning from Nature. Join Michael Pawlyn, a pioneer of biomimetic architecture, and other prominent thinkers in this rapidly emerging area of design for this day of astounding talks and inspiring workshops. If ants can make zero waste, solar powered, sustainable architecture; how can we apply their ‘intelligence’ and 3.5 billion years of research and development to human focused, sustainable design?
Read more about the day after the jump... and click here to book your place now!
Posted by Kate Andrews on Jul 22, 2009 at 08:26 PM | 0 comments
During a TED Talks binge earlier this month, I found myself watching 'Yann Arthus Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle'. As GoodPlanet Fundation President, and the brains behind both The Earth from Above and the socially insightful project 6 Billion Others, Yann Arthus Bertrand is someone I am continually inspired by. Self-described as "an ode to the planet's beauty and its delicate harmony" his latest project is a documentary film called HOME, in which you are taken on a unique journey around the planet, through the landscapes of 54 countries - all captured from above.
Posted by Kate Andrews on Jun 26, 2009 at 02:30 PM | 0 comments
photo by: Kate Andrews
During last September, Greengaged '08 was pleased to unveil the exclusive news of Professor Michael Braungart's revised introduction to the UK edition of ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’. We were then lucky enough, on Monday 22nd September, to have Braungart close the penultimate day of Greengaged '08, with a lecture at London's Royal Society of Arts, where he discussed material assessments, waste and energy balances, and life-cycle design. Following his engaging lecture, Braungart was joined in conversation with science and culture of materials writer Philip Ball, and to launch the first of our weekly podcasts from last years events we are pleased to offer you access to hear that very conversation...
(Click here to download the MP3 file directly. You may need to Cntrl/Right-click and save as a file.)
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The podcast is now available to subscribe to on, and download from, iTunes.
