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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A Swishing! Greengaged

Posted by Bonnie Alter on Sep 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM | 0 comments

photo by: Chiara Terraneo

On Monday evening, Greengaged held its first co-ed Swishing night. Swishing is a sociable, friendly (usually) form of clothes swapping, with very specific rules. Organised by sustainable marketing communications company Futerra, everyone was asked to bring one piece of clean good clothing which could be swapped for someone else’s top, dress, shoes or tee-shirt. 

photo by: Chiara Terraneo

A crowd of 40 happy swishers chatted, drank wine and examined the rails of clothes which included items by Monsoon, Jacob, Phase 8 as well as some great tee-shirts. Unfortunately for the men, there wasn’t a whole lot of choice though.

At the same time a 'talkaoke' was going on. Led by Talkaokeist Saul Albert, there was a heated discussion of fear and loathing in Primark, sustainable clothing, and a strong defence of why some people love to shop. 

Lucy Shea of Futerra explained the rules of the game: first whistle - shoppers could take one item, second whistle, another, and after the third it was a free-for-all. There were no fist-fights over the pink wool jacket and everyone ended the evening pleased with their new acquisition, and its price!

Visit flickr to see all the photos of the Greengaged Swishing party. 

photo by: Chiara Terraneo

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