Chair’s introduction

Martin Charter
Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts

Plenary sessions (am)

Current sustainable design initiatives
  • What sustainable design initiatives are there?
  • What are their aims?
  • How will they help?
  • What future initiatives are needed?

Chris Sherwin
Head of Innovation, Forum for the Future

How standards can help you implement sustainable design
  • How standards can help you now
  • New initiatives in standards for design and innovation
  • Priorities for the future

Dan Palmer
Head of Market Development – Manufacturing and Services, BSI British Standards

What is sustainable design? Terminology and metrics
  • What is sustainable design?
    - Does it mean different things to different people?
    - When does a product or service stop being sustainable?
    - Is there a need for common terminology?
  • What can be done to improve the sustainability of products and services?
    - Can we apply certain principles or techniques during the design process.
  • What metrics can we use to indicate levels of sustainability?
    - Footprinting and life cycle assessment
    - But what about the social aspects and how do we decide upon the trade-offs between social, economic and environmental?

Simon Cordingley
Director, Compass Professional Development

Changing consumer behaviour through design
  • Is designing sustainably enough? Do we need to go further?
  • How can we design sustainable behaviour?

Dr Tracy Bhamra
Reader in Sustainable Design & Research Coordinator, Department of Design & Technology, Loughborough University

The importance of a life cycle approach to design – how the changing climate, economy, new business models and stakeholder’s concerns affect design
  • The need for a life-cycle approach to design
  • Climate change
  • Resource availability and energy supply
  • Economic constraints
  • Stakeholder pressures
  • Turning challenges into opportunities for design

Leigh Holloway
Co-founder and Director, Eco³

Discussion session: Educating and training designers, what needs to be done?
  • How can existing designers be educated in sustainable design?
  • What about future generations?
  • Where are the jobs for sustainable designers?
Additional panellists include:

Lesley Morris,
Head of Design Skills, Design Council

Jenni Rosser,
Head of Cleaner Design, Envirowise

Stream 1:
Product design / Stream 2: Packaging design / Stream 3:
Service design / Stream 4: Communication design
Case study – Implementing BS 8887Design for remanufacture and reuse
- Introduction to BS 8887
- Key principles for the design process
- Case study:Meos G2 design for remanufactureproject
-Conclusions
Casper Gray
Director, Wax RDC
David Parker
Head of Manufacturing, Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse
Case study – No green bull. How Orangebox have implemented sustainability into their design process
- Experiences of embedding sustainable design in a medium sized company
- Taking responsibility and creating agents for change
- The importance of transparent internal and external communication
- Closing the loop through sustainable design, cradle to cradle thinking and applying end-of-life strategies
- The environmental agenda is the business agenda and sustainable design is good design
Dr Frank O’connor
Director, Ecodesign Centre
Luke Palmer
Product Designer, Orangebox / Packaging’s contribution to sustainability
- What needs to be done to improve the packaging supply chain?
- What needs to happen to improve recovery of materials and energy from used packaging?
- How manufacturers and retailers can help consumers live more sustainably
Jane Bickerstaffe
Director, INCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment)
Case study – HowBoots is implementing sustainability into the design of their packaging
- Product journeys - understanding the role packaging plays in product sustainability
- Embedding sustainability into your NPD process - a journey of learning
- Balancing life cycle considerations with brand values
- Linking packaging and product design to deliver more sustainable products
- The next step of the journey - challenges for the future
Andrew Jenkins
Sustainable Development Manager - Products, Boots UK Limited / The future of sustainable services
- Services, behviour change and low carbon living
-Low carbonservice innovation - some current and concept case studies
-Using future scenarios as a service design tool
- How can we get to a low carbon world?
Fiona Bennie
Seniorsustainability advisor, Forum for the Future
Case study - BS 8901 best practice at One Wimpole Street
- Why we chose BS 8901 (Sustainable event
management system)
- The process of implementation
-What we gained
- Hindsight and review
Craig Wallace
Conference and Events Manager, One Wimpole Street / Discussion session: The need for appropriate guidelines in communication design
- What do designers need?
- Where can this guidance come from?
- Is there currently guidance out there?
- How do you embed sustainability in your practice?
How do you embed sustainability in your practice?
- Get your house in order/ greening up the design studio
- Outputs: print
- The environmental impacts (energy,
waste, water, chemicals, ink etc)
- Outputs: paper
- Environmental impacts of paper
production
- What you can do about it
- Is digital more green?
- Environmental impacts of the digital
output of design
- ‘Cradle to cradle’ thinking in the design process
Sophie Thomas
Co-founder, Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest
Nat Hunter
Co-founder, Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest
Caroline Clark
Co-founder, Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest

Plenary sessions

Discussion session: How can different sectors work together to improve sustainable design?
  • What are the common issues?
  • What guidance/standards do graphic designers need?
Sustainable design in brief: Embedding sustainability in the design brief and how can you persuade clients of the need for sustainable design and win business in a recession
  • Context
  • Designer’s must persuade themselves
  • When should you persuade?
  • How to persuade the client?
  • Elements to include in the brief
  • Common pitfalls

Casper Gray
Director, Wax RDC