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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Crafting Mass Production

September 24, 2009, 10:00am to 5:00pm

The Design Council

Anna Gerber and Three Trees will be curating a day around the idea of how craft sensibilities and values can be brought to a mass production scale. We'll show not only that this is possible, but also more sustainable. Looking to re-engage designers with industrial processes, the day will involve lots of hands-on creative thinking with break out workshops, presentations and a horse and cart too!

Morning session:

The morning session will be a lively combination of designers talking through projects ranging from print-on demand exhibition catalogues for the Barbican, to a project that brought handmade silkscreen techniques to mass manufacture; mixed in with film nubs showing the Three Trees recent trip to their local paper mill in Fife, Scotland and highlights from the letterpress workshop, and of course the horse and cart we promised (never to underestimate the power of distribution).

Speakers:

  • Chris Svensson from Sara De Bondt studio will discuss the Radical Nature catalogue, printed on demand and delivered in batches to the Barbican.
  • June Hill (project co-curator) will talk us through how Manchester Metropolitan University's Embroidery Programme was able to breathe new life into the Schiffli machine, a Victorian embroidery machine deemed "unusable" by Health and Safety.
  • Fred Deakin from Airside will show how he was able to keep the sensibilities and values of small scale handmade print job to mass manufacture.
  • Kresse Weslin from the Elvis & Kresse Organisation (E&KO) will show us how they've transformed de-commissioned British fire brigade hoses into luxury handbags.

Lunch:

During the lunch break, we will be showing the legendary 20 minute film, 'The Story of Stuff', narrated by Annie Leonard.

Afternoon session:

The afternoon session will bring some of the ideas we talked about and showed in the earlier session to life. We're imagining lots of whirring sewing machines, learning to fold paper in ways you never knew were possible and just how much water is involved in making paper by hand.

Workshops:

N.B. Content of the day is subject to change

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