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

About Us
Greengaged | 8 Disney Street, London | 020 7403 4281 | email

About Mark Beever

Mark Beever

Director of Innovation from Glasgow / London / Manchester

Mark Beever focuses on communication design, innovative design practice and sustainability across a broad range of media and formats. He works across bases in Glasgow, Manchester and London. A conceptual and communication designer with skills ranging from strategy through to production, Mark has international experience working with Bruce Mau Design, IDEO and thomas.matthews, before joining the fantastic team at 999 Design as Director of Innovation. Mark works with diverse clients, from NGOs through to FTSE100 corporations, building a design practice with sustainability and innovation at the core. Excited by understanding the unknown, Mark draws on his knowledge of creating engagement, interaction and communication across the fields of: identity design, consultation, way finding, product, and exhibition design to explore all new challenges.

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Greengaged arrives in Beijing

Built on a successful programme of engaging events at London Design Festival 2008, Greengaged is spreading its reach for 2009 and going international!

—posted on October 17, 2009 5:33 pm

Help to close the looop on print?

4.7 million tons of fresh, unused paper is thrown away by UK print companies each year. Looop™ is a new online resource offering a potential solution to deal with this issue. Here we look at what it offers and whether if goes far enough.

—posted on October 1, 2009 1:00 pm

Contribute to the Materials Survey

Take our Materials Survey to share information on your most widely used materials, and what informs the choices you make.

—posted on September 17, 2009 11:24 am

How can design help save the world?

So, how can design save the world? Maybe it's about more than switching to groovy eco materials (bamboo laptop, anyone?) Maybe we need to redesign the systems of society that produce unsustainability. John Grant argues the case for redesigning the systems that underlie our interactions together and with this earth.

—posted on September 16, 2009 11:24 am

Register for a tour of the Olympic Park

Register for this unique trip around the Olympic Park with Dan Epstein, Head of Sustainability and Regeneration. This tour will have particular focus on the sustainable approach taken to materials used on the site.

—posted on September 15, 2009 1:51 pm

Co-opportunity: A Day for World Builders

On Tuesday 22nd September, John Grant will be curating the second day of the exciting greengaged programme.

—posted on September 14, 2009 1:26 pm