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

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Material Experts Congregate at Greengaged

Posted by Sophie Thomas on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:33 AM | 0 comments

Fancy a sneaky peak at Friday’s material ‘speed date’ session? Well, imagine a room full of makers and creaters, specifiers and promoters ...all waiting to talk to you and answer those burning questions you have about materials!

Next week, Friday’s morning session ‘the knowledge transfer workshop’ promises to take you step-by-step (actually stride by stride as we will be moving at pace around the tables) through that part of the design process where you decide on the material you will build, mould, construct and design with. If you are confused as to how to start specifying sustainable materials or if you want to question some piece of potential greenwash seen on a product then bring your questions and samples along to present to our amazing assemblage of experts which includes Chris Wise from Expedition Engineering, Guy Robinson from Sprout Design, Christopher Pett from Pli Design, recent RCA graduate Thomas Thwaite and other esteemed people from Arup, BRE, Giraffe Innovation, One Planet Products, Saint-Gobain, Smile Plastics and Wrap, with others still confirming.

Register your place here.

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