Design and Chemistry

It is estimated that over 90% of production materials do not end up in saleable products and 80% of products are discarded after a single use. This is causing us to rapidly consume the planet’s resources including metals, minerals, clean water and fossil fuels. Sustainable chemistry technologies are being used to reduce the impact of [...]

Reframing the ‘Design Solution’

During Monday’s educational session Greengaged welcomed sustainable design reader Dr Tracy Bhamra, from Loughborough University.
Bhamra began her presentation with an overview of her sustainable design teaching and expressed how she believes that “a sustainable design module needs to be something that everyone has to think about and not considered as a separate niche.”
At Loughborough [...]

A Design Challenge Like No Other

Early on Monday morning, Greengaged’s penultimate day kicked off with an informative discussion about the future of design education. Speakers included Tracy Bhamra (Loughborough University), Ian Capewell (Practical Action), and Emma Dewberry (Open University).
First to speak was Emma Dewberry, Senior Lecturer in Design for Sustainability at the Open University. After a brief introduction to her [...]

Greengaged Update

Well, it really has been an amazing first week here at Greengaged, with a whole host of leading voices taking the opportunity to discuss and challenge the role of design to positively effect our environment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has attended so far and we look forward to [...]

Sustainable Design for Print

Did you know that recycling one tonne of paper can save 7000 gallons of water, 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4000kw of energy!? On Friday afternoon, non profit enterprise Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest held a three hour sustainable print and paper workshop to explore how [...]

A World of Rubbish

“Its dirty, its dusty, it smells. Welcome to the world of rubbish!” In the most innovative excursion of the Greengaged week, here we all were on Thursday morning at Powerday waste recycling plant. What an eye opening reality for designers to witness. A full review of the trip coming shortly!
If you were on the trip [...]

Best Practice:
Product Design

In the second series of best practice case studies on Product Design, Simon Terry of Anglepoise, Cressida Granger of DeWeNe and Tom Fishburne from Method Products each presented a fifteen minute presentation of their ethical design practices at greengaged on Tuesday 16th September.

Simon Terry of Anglepoise showed various products to illustrate the companies ecologically friendly [...]

Best Practice:
Provokateur/We Want Tap

As part of the greengaged best practice case studies on Tuesday morning, Joshua Blackburn presented the work of five-year young communication design agency, Provokateur.
Explaining the teams motivation to influence good behavioural change, he presented We Want Tap, their consumer campaign and product line. The campaign is simple, the ambition is big, “We want to [...]

Best Practice:
thomas.matthews

On Tuesday September 16th, day two of greengaged kicked off with a series of best practice case studies from leading design practitioners. The first series of events, focused on Communication and Graphic Design, began with a presentation from Sophie Thomas, director/co-founder of thomas.matthews.

Sophie introduced the work of thomas.matthews, explaining that with a touch of humour, [...]