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.
Posted by Bonnie Alter on Sep 29, 2009 at 12:01 PM | 1 comments
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Greengaged curator John Grant was joined by three speakers after lunch on Tuesday: Shaun Nagassic, Dave Birch and Giles Andrews, who each, in the context of the day on co-opportunity and re-inventing the banking system for the common good, gave presentations of their work. Here we provide a summary of each of the talks.
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 25, 2009 at 02:00 PM | 0 comments
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Our second curator, John Grant kicked off Tuesday's session on "Co-opportunity", proposing the question; "How can we create (banking and financial) systems, for the common good?"
With speeches from Josh Ryan Collins of the New Economics Foundation, and Chris Wise & Ed McCann of Expedition Engineering, John led an interactive morning session. Beginning by sketching the agenda of the day into a flowchart, John quickly split the attendee's into smaller groups, asking them to discuss and brainstorm ideas on how, using models/examples of present day service design and system thinking, could they redesign a new system for banking.
Following her participation, Phd student Lauren Tan, offers Greengaged a great summary of John Grant's morning session...
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 23, 2009 at 03:20 PM | 1 comments
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Our second guest writer for Greengaged.com this week is Dan Lockton, researcher in Brunel University's Cleaner Electronics Research Group investigating design for sustainable behaviour, in theory and practice. Dan attended Greengaged last year and having spent the day with us again on Monday, for Ed Gillespie's Design for Life session, has written a wonderfully intellectual review of the day as it happened. Read Dan's full feature story here, and to follow coverage on both his theoretical and practical work, visit his blog 'Design With Intent'.
Posted by Bonnie Alter on Sep 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM | 0 comments
photo by: Chiara Terraneo
On Monday evening, Greengaged held its first co-ed Swishing night. Swishing is a sociable, friendly (usually) form of clothes swapping, with very specific rules. Organised by sustainable marketing communications company Futerra, everyone was asked to bring one piece of clean good clothing which could be swapped for someone else’s top, dress, shoes or tee-shirt.
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 22, 2009 at 03:09 PM | 0 comments
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Early yesterday morning, Greengaged 2009 at the Design Council, kicked off for London Design Festival! Following a warm welcome from Greengaged co-founder Sophie Thomas and David Kester, Chief Executive of the Design Council, the day was seamlessly handed over to the first of this weeks five guest curators, Ed Gillespie, Founding Director of sustainable communications agency Futerra.
Full coverage of "Design for Life: Barriers to Behaviour Change" - the inaugural day of Greengaged 2009, will be online here shortly, authored by Ed himself and from our guest authors Dan Lockton, and Bonnie Alter of Treehugger.com
Posted by Kate Andrews on Sep 22, 2009 at 11:03 AM | 0 comments
As Greengaged 2009 gets underway at the Design Council, I'm pleased to share our first Greengaged video. Featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the Design Council's Chief Executive David Kester, this short film offers a brief insight into the aims and 2008 success of Greengaged.
There are still a few places left for events this current week, so do check the incredible line-up, via our events page, and register for the last few places!
Posted by Mark Beever on Sep 14, 2009 at 01:26 PM | 0 comments
On Tuesday 22nd September, John Grant will be curating the second day of the greengaged programme: Co-opportunity: A Day for World Builders. This session will pop the lid on the inspiring world of service and systems design, so if you're a newbie to this fascinating area, or an old hand full of ideas come along to see why this is one of the biggest growth areas in design, and learn how you can contribute to it.
John has assembled a brilliant team of speakers, as well as programming some truly engaging workshops to redesign one of the most topical of problematic systems. Learn how to use design to define new solutions in system design. Read more about the day and book your place on this 'Day for World Builders' here.
For live news, updates, new events, new posts and commentary you can follow us on Twitter @Greengaged. To get involved with discussions add #Greengaged to your tweets!
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