Greengaged 2009

From Monday 21st to Friday 25th September greengaged, the sustainable design hub at the London Design Festival, returns to the Design Council with a week of world-class events geared to helping designers improve their skills and awareness of sustainable design. The week offers practical and fun one-day programmes, with hot debates, master classes, field trips, workshops, seminars and more.

Highlights include:

Barriers to Change
Ed Gillespie curates a day where he asks why environmental behaviour change is happening so slowly, and what the barriers are in the context of design – with a focus on the role of design in what we wear, what we eat, where we live and how we get around; food, fashion, homes and travel... provocative speakers, lively interactive debate and even a clothes-swapping event: what more could you ask for?!

Co-opportunity: a Day for World Builders
With a focus on the emerging structures of service design, author John Grant curates a day looking at systems; why they fail and how we can redesign them. Participants will brainstorm new sustainable business models to solve some of the world’s most topical issues.

Biomimicry in Design
Join Michael Pawlyn, a pioneer of biomimetic architecture, and other prominent thinkers in this rapidly emerging area of design for this day of astounding talks and inspiring workshops.

Crafting Mass Production
A day curated by Anna Gerber and Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest to explore the fast moving convergence of craft values with the scale and possibility of mass production. The day involves hands-on creative thinking with break out workshops, and presentations to engage designers with a new approach to craft-based industrial processes.

The Materials behind Sustainability
Dan Epstein, Head of Sustainability and Regeneration for the Olympic Delivery Authority curates a day on the use of natural and advanced materials in design, exploring how we define a sustainable material, what tools are available to help designers select sustainable materials and what support designers need when thinking about materials and design.

Each day includes a fantastic line-up of world-class speakers and is free to attend, but competition for places is hot, and on a first-come-first-served basis. Check out the full programme and book now by visiting http://greengaged.com/events/listings/

greengaged is hosted by:
Design Council
34 Bow Street
London
WC2E 7DL

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.