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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Greengaged arrives in Beijing In China, Greengaged are working with partners including the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), British Council China and the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network China (DESIS-China) to run sustainable design events. The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the lead organiser of the Icograda World Design Congress in Beijing, is committed to sustainable design and will… Mark Beever 10/17/09
greengaged beijing: Schedule and information Mark Beever 10/17/09
greengaged 北京直辖市区: 时间表和信息 Mark Beever 10/17/09
Help to close the looop on print? photo by: Walter Parenteau What any print designer is interested in is the product that they can hold in their hand at the end of the day; and yet design must now consider the bigger system which that finished product fits within and is born out of. In print terms, about… Mark Beever 10/01/09
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Contribute to the Materials Survey On Friday 25th September, in association with Saint-Gobain and Aggregate Industries, greengaged is hosting The Materials Behind Sustainability event. We have created a survey to find out about your current materials choices, the results will feed into the Friday event. Please spend a few minutes letting us know about the… Mark Beever 09/17/09
How can design help save the world? photo by: Kate Andrews So, how can design save the world? Maybe it's about more than switching to groovy eco materials (bamboo laptop, anyone?). Maybe we need to redesign the systems of society that produce unsustainability. A prime example is banking. It's a system based upon credit - spending today what… Mark Beever 09/16/09
Register for a tour of the Olympic Park Register for this unique trip around the Olympic Park with Dan Epstein, Head of Sustainability and Regeneration. This tour will have particular focus on the sustainable approach taken to materials used on the site. Mark Beever 09/15/09
Co-opportunity: A Day for World Builders On Tuesday 22nd September, John Grant will be curating the second day of the greengaged programme: Co-opportunity: A Day for World Builders. This session will pop the lid on the inspiring world of service and systems design, so if you're a newbie to this fascinating area, or an old hand… Mark Beever 09/14/09