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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Swishing!

September 21, 2009, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The Design Council

Masters of Swishing Futerra are organising a special greengaged evening event to run alongside the ‘Design for Life’ day. Come along with your unwanted clothes, shoes and accessories and start swapping. Everyone must bring at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that they’d feel proud to hand on. Not just for ladies!

Dictionary definition: To rustle, as silk
Our definition: To rustle clothes from friends

We all love fabulous new clothes but not the unfortunate side effects. Our bank managers don’t understand the importance of shiny new shoes, and buying heaps of new stuff is pretty terrible for the planet. What’s one to do? Swishing is shopping without these hangovers. We all bring nice, clean, presentable clothes that are lurking unloved in our wardrobe, and other people fall in love with them and give them a good home. You might bring one sweater and take two pairs of shoes, or hang a party frock on the ‘Swishing Rail’ and take a pair of skinny jeans and feather boa.

Swishing is brought to you by Futerra, the UK's leading sustainability communications agency.

Everyone must bring at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that they’d feel proud to hand on.

This event has now finished.