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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About Bonnie Alter

Bonnie Alter

Bonnie Alter is a Canadian living in London. In Toronto she had several different careers--as a City planner, a trade union advisor and an arts administrator. She currently works as a London writer for Treehugger.com

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Michael Pawlyn on how design can mimic nature

On Wednesday Greengaged warmly welcomed Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture to run a day on Biomimicry. Treehugger's Bonnie Alter reviews the day for Greengaged. (Edited by Kate Andrews).

—posted on September 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Co-opportunity: Learning from New Media Models

Greengaged curator John Grant was joined by three speakers after lunch on Tuesday: Shaun Nagassic, Dave Birch and Giles Andrews, who in the context of the day, gave presentations of their work...

—posted on September 29, 2009 12:01 pm

A Swishing! Greengaged

On Monday 21st September, Greengaged held its first co-ed Swishing Night...

—posted on September 23, 2009 10:59 am