Greengaged

photo by: Kate Andrews

Following the conclusion of last year’s London Design Festival - and a few weeks of sleep - myself and co-founders Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick met up and reflected on the inaugural greengaged. We came to the conclusion that we had managed to cram in a huge amount of events in seven days, all of which were incredibly interesting, instructive and thoughtful. We hope all 2000 of you who came to one of our events thought so too. For this we are still very thankful to everyone who offered their time and made it happen; from the multitude of marvellous speakers to the organisers that sorted out IT, drinks and PR.

You can still look through and hear about last year’s events on this site, in the blog archive. We will also be releasing weekly podcast recordings of the highlights starting with this week’s – a conversation between Michael Braungart and Phillip Ball. Keep in touch for further audio and video releases coming up…

One of the things we did vow last year was that we would give ourselves more time to plan for the London Design Festival if we were to do it again… and here we are in June - already zooming up to September – a bit too fast for my liking, but hey. Things are coming together and we are really excited to announce our presence again at the Design Council for this year’s London Design Festival. We are very thankful for the continued support from the Design Council who have again offered to host our week of events at their lovely offices in Covent Garden. Greengaged ‘09 promises a very full and relevant programme for all designers in all disciplines. So, whether you are interested in sustainability or not sure if you should be, make sure you are signed up on our mailing list to be the first to hear of our plans. For now, here’s a quick taster of what is in store for 2009... 

photo by: Kate Andrews

Greengaged 09 at the Design Council 
21st - 25th September 2009

We are building on some of last year’s emerging themes and have invited five leaders in their fields to guest curate a day each. We are really looking forward to having five diverse and engaging days to offer! We will be announcing the curators and themes very soon.

We hope to have some more of the very popular field trips on and around the festival, and hope to be able to offer some non-London events too. Keep in touch and be the first to hear where you could explore and with whom.

Greengaged also plans to go international this year with events already being proposed in the USA, China, Spain and Italy. We are also planning to conclude and present some of the outcomes of our events in Copenhagen in December to represent the importance of Design in the challenge of climate change at the COP15 talks.

Greengaged is organised by people who also have day jobs but are galvanised to push the agenda. We have lots of ideas but not enough time or resources to do them all. If you want to help out or can offer support in any way please get in touch.

Talk soon!

Sophie