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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Title Excerpt Author Date
David de Rothschild interview Sophie Thomas 07/27/10
David de Rothschild interview On the 26th July after 130 days (8000 nautical miles) at sea the Plastiki – a boat created with 12,000 plastic water bottles – sailed triumphant into Sydney harbour. The expedition mission; to bring the horrific state of plastic waste in our oceans to the attention of the world. Through… Sophie Thomas 07/27/10
David de Rothschild interview Sophie Thomas 07/27/10
greengaged material survey – the results are in! As part of Materials Day at this year’s greengaged event we ran a survey to find out about designers favourite materials Sophie Thomas 03/26/10
A Starck Reality Greengaged co-founder Sophie Thomas raises her criticism of Philippe Starck's Design for Life series, currently airing on BBC2. Sophie Thomas 10/12/09
Material Experts Congregate at Greengaged Fancy a sneaky peak at Friday’s material ‘speed date’ session? Well, imagine a room full of makers and creaters, specifiers and promoters ...all waiting to talk to you and answer those burning questions you have about materials! Next week, Friday’s morning session ‘the knowledge transfer workshop’ promises to take you… Sophie Thomas 09/18/09
Greengaged at the Design Council for the London Design Festival 2009 We have announced our guest curators and their themes for the London Design Festival, Sept 2009, hosted by the Design Council Sophie Thomas 07/20/09
Welcome to Greengaged 2009! 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… Sophie Thomas 06/22/09