Design Methods to Decarbonise your Business

Alexie is a Designer and Communicator focused on the intersection between design creativity, business sustainability and authentic communication. A founding member of URGE collective, Alexie is passionate about delivering positive impact applied through strategic thinking and design intuition. Previously creative director at Thomas Matthews and Design Director for creative at The Guardian and The Observer newspaper group.

Ben is a graphic designer at Notpla. He’s a hip-hop and hummus enthusiast from London. With a background in graphic and product design, he worked on the design and strategy for international spirits brands for eight years. He believes that truly great design comes from challenging and disrupting. At Notpla, he creates beautiful, intelligent and inspired work focused on the company’s identity, goals, and values.

Bengt is co-founder and CTO of xtonne and has been working with businesses for over a decade to assess and address the environmental impacts of their assets and activities. He has authored policy for the Greater London Authority to support the London Plan, published award-winning academic research and had integral roles in the pioneering methodologies and software tools used by major sports events, ‘green gown’ universities and iconic footwear brands.

Brian is Head of Facilities at the Design Museum and has worked in the FM and Property Management sector for over 23 years, performing roles in organisations such as CBRE, LandSecurities and EMI. In addition to leading the museum's energy management and environment strategy, he has overseen CRC and energy commitments for a broad range of properties from private rental and retail estates to commercial office buildings in London.

Gemma is a Curator at the Design Museum where she has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions covering contemporary architecture, product design and fashion including 'Waste Age - What can design do?', 'Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers', 'Ferrari - Under the Skin', and 'Beazley Designs of the Year'. Gemma previously worked at the National Museum of Wales and the City of Edinburgh Museums.

Isis is a Procurement Category Manager looking to drive sustainability across the indirect supply chain at Sony Europe. She has experience working with service & marketing vendors in multiple industries accross Europe and Latin America. She is adamant to drive collaboration and continuous improvement of the ESG agenda via measurable and progressive target setting.

Kendra is working at Notpla as an Impact & Sustainability Associate. Her background includes design, human geography and international development. She has always been interested in thoughtful design and its role in limiting our impact on the planet. Starting her Impact role one year ago, she has been involved with Notpla in the early stages. She loves to demystify sustainability and share knowledge about best practices of material's use.

Ralf is an Industrial Ecologist who specialises in life-cycle assessment, carbon footprinting and sustainability action planning. He works across multiple sectors to help clients measure and identify key levers for reducing the impact of their operations and supply chains. He takes a systems-thinking approach to develop practical and effective interventions that deliver long-term environmental, social and economic value.

Reducing impact is everyone's business and a continuous learning process. Discover how the Design Museum is experimenting with adopting new methods to cut the environmental cost of its exhibitions. Through Waste Age: What Can Design Do, on display until 20 February 2022, the museum set out to understand the resource use, production methods, supply chains, and lifecycles of all exhibits and materials.

To make sure the museum was genuinely challenging existing methods, an advisory panel of leading experts were appointed alongside URGE to guide the development of the exhibition, and the museum teams also partnered with designers dedicated to ecological practices.

"We asked specialists to monitor our process, helping us to make change throughout."
– Gemma Curtin, Waste Age Curator, the Design Museum