A fast moving world and changing client demands add up to a big challenge for designers. Even for a successful, respected and in-demand design industry like the UK’s. But the industry’s rising to it. Find out how at the Design Council’s London Design Festival event, chaired by Elmwood’s Jonathan Sands.

Join us to celebrate what’s been achieved so far by the UK Design Skills Alliance and contribute to the work still to come. Get an update on exciting plans to support tomorrow’s designers (and today’s too). Discuss the issues in a debate led by Blueprint Editor Vicky Richardson, and carry on the discussion over drinks.
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6pm-9pm Professor Michael Braungart in conversation with Philip Ball
(at the Royal Society of Arts)

MADE in association with the Design Council and greengaged bring you a lecture from Professor Michael Braungart highlighting fields of materials assessment, waste and energy balances and life-cycle design followed by a conversation with Philip Ball.

Professor Michael Braungart is renowned as the founder of Cradle to Cradle and co-author of the bestselling publication ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’. Michael established the international chemistry division of Greenpeace and since 1984 has lectured around the world, proposing new concepts for ecological chemistry and materials flow management. He now holds a Chair in the business school of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and also at Delft, where his focus is on industrial ecology.

Philip Ball is a science and culture of materials writer, a specialist in subjects from biochemistry to quantum physics, a materials science specialist, and a former Nature staffer.
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