Speakers
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Jeremy Myerson
Jeremy Myerson has been a writer, academic and activist in design for the past 30 years. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, he worked as a journalist and editor on titles including Design, Creative Review and World Architecture. In 1986 he was founding editor of Design Week and in 1999 he set up the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the RCA with Roger Coleman to advance a humanist agenda in design. Today he is Director of the Centre and the Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the RCA. He is the author of more than a dozen books on design, technology, craft and architecture. His latest book, New Demographics New Workspace, was published in summer 2010 by Gower. He has curated many national exhibitions, including Doing A Dyson at the Design Museum and Rewind: Forty Years of Design and Advertising at the V&A, and sits on the advisory boards of design schools in Korea and Hong Kong.
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Nick Jankel
Nick Jankel is a leadership, collaboration and social innovation expert, a public intellectual, TV presenter, inspirational speaker and transformational coach. He is the inventor of the WECREATE collaboration and leadership toolkit (www.wecreate.cc) that provides organisations with a grassroots program to shift cultures towards innovation and creativity. It is has been used by the NHS, the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Skill, MTV and WWF. Mr Jankel holds a triple 1st Class BA / MA degree in Science from Cambridge University, studying both History of Science and Medicine.
His transformative ideas have found their way to Prime Ministers and to Fortune 500 Chief Executives. Mr Jankel hosted and starred in a show on BBC Television as a psychological coach and has been a resident psychological expert on MTV. He writes for The Guardian social innovation and collaboration and has taught on the MBAs of Oxford, Warwick, Bath, Lancaster and London Universities and on the Executive MBAs of Ford and British Airways amongst others. He has advised the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Skills, the White House and No.10 Downing Street on innovation. Mr Jankel is an Entrepreneurship Ambassador for the UK and has been a judge on the Orange National Innovation Awards and the European Media Awards (MEDEA).
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Josephine Green
Josephine Green promotes new thinking and new knowledge in the field of Social Foresight, Innovation and Change. Her advocacy in this field is based on the belief that we need different ways of perceiving, of being and of acting in the world if we are to live well and safeguard the future. She regularly delivers international presentations and is an advisor to European Futures and Research platforms. She lectures in masters and executive education programs at a number of UK and European Universities. Josephine was appointed Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design, in the Netherlands, in 1997. She left Philips in 2009 to return to the UK.
Engaging with the Future Differently: From Pyramids to Pancakes
Through refreshing terms and paradigms, Josephine explores and articulates the critical period of transformation that we as a human society are experiencing. Through her framework of Pyramids to Pancakes, she challenges us to think and to act differently in our world if we are to prosper and flourish.
Her work explores the need for and the emergence of new social and cultural narratives and their societal, technological and organizational contexts and consequences. Josephine demonstrates the very real need to nurture new growth areas, to decentralize the main functions of Strategy, Research, Innovation and Design, to distribute creativity and to embrace complexity through new organizational, cultural and leadership models.
Josephine believes it is critical, especially now, for us to embrace the fact that while we know what and where we have come from, we don’t know where and what we are going to. There are no rule books for the next age so we must collectively invent and create our futures. Josephine’s work and tools offer ways of looking at and tackling this historical task.
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore is the founder of SMLXL www.smlxtralarge.com a company that specialises in business and communication innovation. Alan is an author of several books including, Communities Dominate Brands: Business and Marketing Challenges for the 21st Century.
Amongst other plaudits Communities Dominate Brands has been described as prescient. He is recognised as a great distiller of complex arguments into their most salient points, who can take concepts from many sources and find the previously hidden relationship between them. He has a firm grasp of the changes which are reshaping our world. With his insight on the interlocking trends of; media, culture, communication and commerce, Alan enables companies to develop winning strategies for how businesses and organisations can succeed in the early 21st Century. The biggest challenge we face is cultural, how we contextualise, (make sense) of the world around us, therefore how we engage and take action determines the outcome – this requires a change from our industrial mindset and behaviour to one that is more cognisant of a non-linear world. And this is where Alan voices the idea that what we face is a design problem, where answers exist not at an unattainable theoretical level but in the streets of our towns and cities, the classes of our schools, the waiting-rooms of our hospitals. These answers will manifest themselves as true acts of creation, originating new ways of getting stuff done, informed by the decisions we collectively take. So in re-de-signing the world, we need human creativity in the sense of the capacity to 'make', we need visionary leadership in the sense of making a difference. We seek the craftsman’s critical eye, steady hand and creative mind. It is this process of seeing – realising new pathways to success, by bringing two unlikes (new information, tools, processes etc.,) together in close adjacency that we create, and make new things. Then we can meaningfully apply that capability.
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Deborah Szebeko
Deborah Szebeko is Founding Director of thinkpublic, a social innovation and design agency that works with the public sector and third sector to innovate and improve public services.
She was inspired to start thinkpublic after volunteering at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where she saw opportunities for using design to improve communications and experiences between doctors and patients.
Deborah has a vast understanding of using collaborative methods and tools to enable service innovation and improvement.
Over the past six years, she has successfully used her co-design approach to inform and develop communication products and service innovations that have been rolled out nationally. Deborah, in partnership with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, developed The Experience Based Design methodology and tool kit, which enables NHS Trusts to capture, understand and use patient experience to improve health services.
In recognition of Deborah’s pioneering work she has been awarded The British Council’s UK Young Design Entrepreneur in 2008.
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David McCandless
David McCandless is a London-based writer, author, designer and creative director. He has worked across magazines, newspapers, advertising, TV and web for over 25 years, exploring anything "strange and interesting" for publications like Wired and The Guardian. Recently, he has championed the use of infographics and data visualisations to explore new directions for journalism and design - and to discover new stories in the seas of data now surrounding us. His blog and book Information Is Beautiful are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge, data - all with the minimum of text.
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Sophie Thomas
Founder of communication design agency Thomas Matthews, Sophie has led and delivered a vast array of international and award-winning print and exhibition projects including the highly acclaimed No Shop campaign for Friends of The Earth in 1997 to the £15 million Space galleries for the Royal Observatory Greenwich that opened in Spring 2007.
Sophie’s commitment to integrate systemic sustainable practice through all areas of her work has put her at the leading edge of design. She was included in Design Week’s 2009 Hot 50 as a ‘mover and shaker’ in the design industry for her work in founding greengaged, and Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest; both not for profit organisations that aim to help skill up designers in sustainable practice. She is included in the 2008 Who’s Who Business Elite list and the 2010 Who’s Who edition and sits on the board of trustees for the Design Council. Sophie has recently been selected for the first ‘women to watch’ for her leadership in design.
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Tim Smit CBE
Tim Smit was born in Holland on 25 September 1954. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. Tim worked for ten years in the music industry as composer/producer in both rock music and opera. In 1987 Tim moved to Cornwall he and John Nelson together ‘discovered’ and then restored the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Tim remains a Director of the gardens to the present day.
Tim is Chief Executive and co-founder of the Award winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Eden began as a dream in 1995 and opened its doors to the public in 2000, since when more than 12 million people have come to see what was once a sterile pit turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Eden has contributed over £1 billion into the Cornish economy. Eden is proud of its success in changing people’s perception of the potential for and the application of science, by communicating and interpreting scientific concepts through the use of art, drama and storytelling as well as living up to its mission to take a pivotal role in local regeneration. It demonstrates once and for all that sustainability is not about sandals and nut cutlets, it is about good business practice and the citizenship values of the future.
Tim is a Trustee, Patron and Board Member of a number of statutory and voluntary bodies both locally and nationally. He has received a variety of national awards including The Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary CBE in the New Years Honours List and he has received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from a number of Universities. Tim was voted ‘Great Briton of 2007’ in the Environment category of the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards. Tim has taken part in a quantity of television and radio programmes and has been the subject of ‘This is Your Life’ and a guest on ‘Desert Island Discs’. He is a regular speaker at conferences, dinners and other events. Tim is the author of books about both Heligan and Eden and he has contributed to publications on a wide variety of subjects. He lives in Fowey, Cornwall and in his free time he enjoys reading, film, music and art.
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Lynda Relph-Knight
Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of Design Week since 1989. Before taking up that role on the world's only weekly design magazine, she was a freelance journalist specialising in the built environment and design. In that guise, she was a consultant to both Design Week and Building magazine and edited Designing, the Design Council's termly magazine for secondary schools. Other regular freelance outlets included Design magazine, Designers Journal, Interior Design, Building Design and New Scientist. Previous full-time jobs include editor of The Architect (a now-defunct monthly) and features editor on architectural weekly Building Design. In 2001 Lynda received an honorary MA from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art in June 2007.
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Clive Grinyer
Clive Grinyer is director of Customer Experience for the European Innovations Team of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), designing customer experiences, improving usability and creating technology innovations for Cisco’s clients.
Clive has held senior design management roles in a number of consultancy and corporate design teams. As a design consultant he has worked for innovation consultancy IDEO in the US and UK and was founder of design company Tangerine (along with Jonathan Ive, now SVP of design at Apple). A strong advocate of in-house design teams, he created Samsung’s European design studio, was head of design for Orange France Telecom in London and Paris and headed design for TAG Mclaren Audio. He was Director of Design for the Design Council between 2002 and 2005.
He is a passionate advocate of customer experience, technology usability and design methodologies in both business and public services, writes and speaks at conferences on design, innovation and technology, and is the author of the book “Smart Products”
Clive graduated from Central St Martins School of Art and Design in London, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Honorary Professor at Glasgow School of Art.
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Bonnie Dean
Bonnie is the Chief Executive of the Bristol and Bath Science Park. She has extensive experience in listed and privately held companies in the engineering and manufacturing sectors in the US, UK, and India. Innovation and application of new technologies has been a fundamental component in her career. Currently, she is a Trustee of the Design Council and of the Brandon Trust. She is a Member of the Dott Cornwall Board, the Southwest Science and Industry Council and the Low Carbon Southwest Board.
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Chris Hines MBE
Chris is the core of A Grain of Sand an organisation dedicated to delivering positive change.
Chris is a highly experienced communicator and driver of positive change. He was founder and Director of Surfers Against Sewage for 10 years. Described as “Some of the governments most sophisticated environmental critics.” By BBC News and Current Affairs and “Britain’s coolest pressure group” by The Independent. SAS were runners up in the 1999 Green Politics Award.
With a strong focus on “solution to problems”, he helped deliver £5 billion spend on UK coastline. Chris has given evidence to Commons and Lords Select Committees, Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the European Parliament and Commission and was called as a special advisor to the Rt.Hon Michael Meacher MP Minister for the Environment.
Chris sees effective communication as a key driver to change and has appeared on everything from Panorama to BBC Newsnight live, BBC Children’s TV and the BBC World Service and CNN Skewed View. From 2001-2007 Chris was Sustainability Director at the Eden Project
In 2006 Chris was joint-winner of the first international Surfers Path Green Wave Awards for his contributions to the surfing and environmental world and was featured as one of the Daily Telegraph's Eco Heroes.
In June 2008 Chris received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for “services to the environment.” Chris is also a YIMBY – Yes In My Back Yard – having campaigned for sewage treatment works, he lives next to one!
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Dr Andrea Siodmok
Andrea is the Programme Director of the social enterprise 'Dott Cornwall' and Conference Director for Intersections 2011. Previously Chief Design Officer of the Design Council, she has set up major National innovation programmes including 'Design Bugs Out' and 'Designing Out Crime' to show how design can tackle new often intractable problems.
With a first class honours in industrial design and PhD in virtual reality sponsored by British Telecom, she has a deep understanding of design education, and is a visiting fellow at Northumbria University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Andrea has 15 years experience of promoting a strategic approach to the future of design and as an ambassador of sustainability and social innovation, she has given over 100 speeches on design across five continents. She was nominated for the 2010 top fifty ‘Women to Watch’, Cultural Leadership Programme by the CCS and the Arts Council.
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Tom Podkolinski
For as long as he can remember Tom has always had a passion for sport, natural history and design. It is no accident then that he finds himself now the design director of the multi award winning Outdoor clothing company finisterre. Specialising in fabric innovation the company has become the perfect platform for his work in Biomimicry and Performance sportswear. Whether it be lecturing at his local university or for the government abroad Tom has been committed to engaging his work and philosophy with the real world and the reality of the problems that it faces.
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Tom Hulme
Tom is a Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tom has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, a very thorough understanding of business. He is particularly interested in commercializing new products and services, and his clients include technology, retail, FMCG, financial services, hospitality and fashion brands, Having spent a year teaching secondary school in Tanzania, he also believes in the power of entrepreneurship for sustainable social good.
Tom earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, with class honors, from the University of Bristol and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Baker Scholar Award of high distinction. In 1998, after finishing his university degree, he joined British sports car manufacturer Marcos Sales Ltd., where he became Managing Director and transformed the loss-making company into a profitable enterprise by diversifying the company into race cars and road cars. He sold the company in 1999. In 2000, he founded Fluid Conditioning Systems Ltd. to commercialise the Magnom™, a patented magnetic filtration innovation system, now used in a diverse range of industries, including Formula 1. Current customers include Ferrari F1, Ducati, JCB and Fernox. He oversaw expansion of the company operations to the United States.
Tom regularly speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship, design thinking, open innovation and industry disruption. In December of 2009 he published an essay in The Future of Innovation, titled “The Future of Innovation is Holistic and Networked,” and regularly posts to his blog www.weijiblog.com.
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Emily Campbell
Director of Design at the RSA, Emily has developed new thinking about the relationship between design and citizenship. The Design and Society project urges designers to demonstrate how the insights and processes of design can increase the resourcefulness of people and communities. Prior to this she was the British Council’s first Head of Design & Architecture. She has been a pattern-cutter for Jean Muir as well as a project manager and a graphic designer at Pentagram. Emily has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge, a Diploma in Clothing Technology from the London College of Fashion and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale. She writes widely on design.
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David Meneer
David was Marketing Director at the Eden Project from April 1999 to September 2007 and since then has been CEO at Fifteen Cornwall – the Jamie Oliver inspired training restaurant, at Watergate Bay Newquay and the Cornwall Foundation of Promise – the charity which owns the restaurant and runs the chefs’ training programme. Consequently he has been closely involved with two of the highest profile social enterprises not only in Cornwall but in the whole of the UK.
Born in Redruth, Cornwall in 1951, and having taken a gap year making surfboards in 1969/70, David left to take a degree in Geography at University College London where he also found time to appear on University Challenge (repeated in 2005 with the Eden Project team) and become the youngest President of the Union in 1973.
Following this he embarked on a 25 year career in advertising at many of the top agencies in the UK, Frankfurt and Paris working with such giants as Sony and Cadbury and such household names as Flora margarine, Cornetto ice cream and Directline Insurance. He left agency life as a European vice president of Mc Cann Erickson - the world’s largest agency - where he had been in charge of advertising for General Motors (Vauxhall/Opel) in 23 countries across Europe throughout much of the nineties.
David is also on the advisory board of Tate St Ives and is Chairman of Trustees at The Leach Pottery.
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David Rowan
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He writes the monthly “Digital Life” column in GQ magazine, and the "Tech Traveller" column in Condé Nast Traveller. He has edited The Guardian's websites, made TV films for Channel 4 News, and written long features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and The Observer. Trained at The Times, where he wrote weekly tech and trend-watching columns, he has edited The Guardian's op-ed, education, analysis and Saturday features sections. Most recently he edited The Jewish Chronicle. His recent speaking engagements have taken in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Geneva, Moscow and Shanghai, on topics ranging from the future of luxury brands to the new rules of business in a mobile-internet age. Recent TV appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC Breakfast News and Channel 4 News; radio appearances include Radio 4's Today Programme and The Media Show.
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Manda Brookman
Manda Brookman has been working in Cornwall for the last 10 years in the field of sustainable development. Prior to moving to Cornwall, she worked on a range of third sector organisations on local, national and international programmes around waste, homelessness and communications. Board member, chair and director of a range of community based enterprises and partnerships, she also co-founded CoaST, the Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Project, of which she has been Managing Director for 8 years. A social enterprise and not for private profit organisation promoting sustainable tourism across Cornwall, the UK and internationally. CoaST works with host communities, local authorities and tourism agencies, and the tourism industry itself to enable tourism become an agent of change and deliver cultural shift and behavioural change through leadership, communications, and a new understanding of the metrics of change.
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Lucy Jewson
Lucy Jewson started her career as a marine biologist, but when the business she worked for went bust, she joined the pharmaceutical industry and had an 8 year career in sales and sales training both in the UK and Australia. She first had the idea for the business whilst on maternity leave with her first son, Tom in October 2003. He was wearing environmentally friendly cloth nappies which gave him a bulkier bottom that made it a struggle to find clothes that fitted. She discovered she was not alone with this problem and decided to do something about it and Cut4Cloth Ltd was born. Lucy and Kurt Jewson both quit their jobs, re-mortgaged and cashed in all their savings to get the business off the ground. Three years ago they re-branded to Frugi, as they now cater for more than just cloth nappy aged children, with Frugi Kids for 2-8 year olds and Frugi Mother, a stylish range for breastfeeding mums. The business has experienced strong growth and has gone from quite literally a “back bedroom” business to one now employing 20 people in Helston in Cornwall. Frugi has attained a number of accolades; winning “Exporter of the Year”, “Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Innovation of the Year” and “Winner of Winners” at the Cornwall Business Awards, as well as being classed as the most Ethical Childrenswear Brand in the UK (beating M&S) by Ethical Consumer Magazine. Frugi have also just received a silver award for “Best Toddler Fashion” range and gold for their breastfeeding range in the Practical Parenting Awards.
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Toby Parkins
Toby is a leading strategic thinker with a commercial approach to technology development. He has a hands on experience built from using the Internet in the early 90s through to technical web development, mobile, social media and ecommerce. He continually monitors a wide range of digital business innovations and has worked closely with international communication agency partners since 2006. Currently he mainly resides in Cornwall and strongly believes that areas of the digital industry could thrive in the region with the correct strategy.
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Matt Hocking
Matt is passionate about making a difference. Since 2001 when he joined the Eden Project to head up their graphics team before setting up multi-award winning graphic design agency Leap - design for change, he has been helping creatives, individuals and businesses alike to understand their role and responsibility in developing products and services that are more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. His emphasis has been to do it in a fun, playful and engaging ways.
As well as guiding Leap to win numerous awards both creative and environmental, he and his team gained ISO-14001 accreditation in 2009; the first creative studio to reach this level in the South West. Operating off an annual carbon trading value of 7.9 tonnes of CO2. In 2009 and 2010, Leap appeared in the Financial Times as recognition of the awarding of its Business in the Community Big Tick for action against climate change.
Working with small one-person businesses through to international corporations, Matt has instilled a passionate confidence in Leap's guidance both creatively and environmentally. From sleeping under the stars with the Jebiliyah tribe in Sinai, working out how to be more responsible with conservation tourism; to carbon management of jute products' supply chain in India, writing sustainability policies for businesses and of course designing lots and lots of stuff in the right way.
More recently Leap was asked to become Senior Producers for two projects for Dott Cornwall. The Eco Design Challenge and The Green Energy Village gave Leap and Matt in particular the resources and freedom to create experiences that enabled a two huge audiences, (one of Year-8 school pupils and the other 120,000 people at the Royal Cornwall Show) to engage with and co-design solutions for the problems associated with sustainability and renewable energy.
To Matt, it's all about great idea's not giving in and making them happen.
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Anne Chick
Anne Chick is a Reader in Sustainable Design at Kingston University and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada. She was identified by Design Week in 2009 as one of the top ten influential individuals in sustainable design. Her first publication in 1992 was The Graphic Designer’s Green Handbook, generally acknowledged as a landmark publication in its genre, and in 1995 she co-founded The Centre For Sustainable Design.
More recently, Anne also co-founded Greenengaged (www.greengaged.com) as a response to the need for positive engagement with sustainablity issues within the Design community. Her work includes directing an innovative postgraduate course in designing for sustainability (MA Design for Development), researching and writing about the use of design and how designers can address various sustainability agendas. This approach led to being an expert advisor on the Design Museum’s 2010 exhibition Sustainable Futures and working with The British Standards Institute and Design Council.
Her latest publication, co-authored with Dr Paul Micklethwaite, will be available by early May 2011 entitled Designing Sustainable Change, AVA Publishing. John Thackara called the book “timely, clear and compelling. It's the ideal roadmap for any designer seeking an alternative to business as usual".
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Alan Livingston CBE
Professor Alan Livingston CBE, DL, FCSD was Rector and Chief Executive of University College Falmouth from 1987 to 2009. He led UCF through a period of significant expansion and change. The University College, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Art, Design, Media and Performance, merged with Dartington College of Arts in April 2008. Alan played a leading role in the creation and development of the Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative (CUC) and was Chair of the CUC Executive and Steering Groups. He served as a Council Member of Arts Council England and was Chair of Arts Council England, South West, 2002 to 2007. He is a member of the Royal Mail Stamp Advisory Committee (since 1993) and a Trustee of the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was Chair of the Tate St.Ives Advisory Council, 2009 to 2011. Alan was appointed to the Design Council, London in 2009 and was Chair of the Design Council’s ‘Design of the Times ‘(DOTT) initiative in Cornwall from 2009 to 2011. In 2009 he was appointed as a Director of the Cornwall Development Company (CDC), an organisation charged with advising on the strategic development of Cornwall. He received the London Cornish Award in 2007 for outstanding service to Cornwall and the people of Cornwall. Alan was awarded a CBE for Services to Higher Education in 2006. He was appointed Visiting Professor in Visual Communication at the University of Ulster in 2011.
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Kathryn Tyler
Kathryn Tyler is the Founder & Creative Director of Linea Studio.
A graduate of Falmouth College of Arts, Kathryn has spent the last ten years promoting good design practice in Cornwall. She set up her own consultancy in 2004, where she has developed a reputation for creating distinctive user-focused interiors that often challenge client briefs resulting in imaginative and engaging spaces across a range of sectors. Her steadfast commitment to using local manufacturers, sustainably-sourced materials, and upcycled furniture has brought her recognition and led to work for a range of high profile clients across the UK including Scope, The RSPB and currently Design Bridge.
Throughout her career Kathryn has been a proud exponent of socially responsible design, utilising her skill set to facilitate community and social projects that would otherwise not readily access design. Most recently, Kathryn was part of the Dott Cornwall New Work team, using a design-led approach to engage and assist people at risk of redundancy to access skills and training to find work relevant to the future economy of Cornwall.
Kathryn is on the board of the Cornwall Design Forum.
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John Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, speaker and event producer. He is the author of In The Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press) and of a widely-read blog, doorsofperception.com.
John studied philosophy, and trained as a journalist, before working for ten years as a book and magazine editor. John was Director of Research at the Royal College of Art in London and the first Director (1993-1999) of the Netherlands Design Institute. He was programme director in 2007 of Designs of the time (Dott 07) a new biennial in North East England. In 2008 he was commissioner of City Eco Lab at Cite du Design in St Etienne, the most important French design biennial. John is a an Associate of The Young Foundation, UK; senior advisor on sustainability to the UK Design Council; and an advisor on sustainability indicators to Agence France Presse. His most recent book, In The Bubble will be published in Japanese in 2009. People seem most impressed by the fact that John once drove a London bus.
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Lynda Davis
Having grown up travelling overseas and attending university in the USA, Lynda now works for Cornwall’s only urban regeneration company (CPR Regeneration). As Programme Integration Manager, Lynda works with partners and stakeholders, to identify opportunities where value can be added by aggregating demand and delivery – with the aim of developing Camborne, Pool and Redruth into a prosperous and sustainable area.
Previously Lynda was Director of a digital sector business network (Digital Peninsula Network), as well as the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, where she developed a public/private partnership to secure the future of the last natural green space on Miami Beach. She thrives on turning strategy into a deliverable reality.
Connecting all of Lynda’s work is a desire to build the capacity of those she works with, and ensure businesses (whether from the private or public sector) are getting the best bang for their buck.
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Charles Armstrong
Charles is the founder of Trampoline Systems, the Shoreditch-based network analysis specialist whose SONAR technology has been used by organisations such as RBS, Capgemini and Aviva. Charles is also Director of One Click Orgs, an open source project creating a free website where community groups in the UK can automatically create an Unincorporated Association and hold membership votes on big decisions. He grew up near Redruth, studied at Truro School then went on to read Social and Political Science at St John's College Cambridge. Charles is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, a board member of the Fundacja Techsoup and advises several startups. He publishes occasional essays and articles, in 2010 including the chapter on emergent democracy for O'Reilly's book "Open Government". Charles currently lives in Dalston, East London.
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Luke Nicholson
Luke has been applying design to social and environmental issues for over a decade. A founder of four design-led social ventures, he now leads sustainable innovation practice More Associates and the recently established CarbonCulture, a project that aims to use design to accelerate the UK's transition to a low-carbon economy.
He's been designing in one way or another since childhood when he used to spend his pocket money on geeky trips to visit the Design Council library in Haymarket. Ten years later, after completing his training in Graphic Design and sculpture, his ambition was to find a way to apply the skills and methods of business to solve social and environmental problems. His latest venture CarbonCulture now provides real-time energy and carbon reporting for the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Number 10 and HM Treasury, and is running landmark behaviour change projects for Defra and DECC.
Luke is a London Leader for the London Sustainable Development Commission. He has experience in information and experience design, user-centred design, sustainable design, brand strategy and systems architecture. He advises government, corporations and NGOs, and speaks internationally on design strategy and sustainability
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Tom Henderson OBE
Tom Henderson is Founder and CEO of ShelterBox. As a Rotarian for 20 years and ex-UK Royal Navy Search and Rescue diver, Tom spotted a gap in aid provision for natural disasters in 1999. He developed the idea of the ‘ShelterBox’, with which he aimed to provide shelter and other essential equipment for survival in an easily transportable box. After gaining the support of his local Rotary Club, then Rotary Clubs worldwide, ShelterBox was formally launched in 2000 and the first boxes of aid were distributed in 2001. Since its launch in 2000, ShelterBox has responded to more than 100 disasters – earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, floods and humanitarian disasters such as conflict. The charity’s HQ is still in Cornwall, where it all began, but now there are also branches of ShelterBox established in the USA, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Switzerland and Denmark.
The charity has raised over £40 million to date, increasing its capacity to respond to disasters year on year. ShelterBox became well-established in the aid world following the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, where aid was provided for 150,000 people. 2010 saw ShelterBox witness its busiest ever year, distributing over 46,000 boxes of aid, including sufficient shelter for over 250,000 people following the earthquake in Haiti. Tom’s achievements earned him the accolade of a ‘CNN Hero’, with extensive coverage on the international television channel. His achievements have been applauded in political and royal circles too, recently receiving a letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister of Canada, and securing HRH the Duchess of Cornwall as President of the charity. Tom was awarded his OBE in 2010 for services to charity and humanitarian aid.
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Mat Hunter
Mat is Chief Design Officer at the Design Council where he is responsible for the organisation’s design strategy, direction and partnerships, his team providing leadership across all projects in public and private sectors. An internationally renowned designer, innovator and academic, Mat joined IDEO in 1995 as a junior interaction designer, following his graduation from the Royal College of Art. He rose through the organisation eventually becoming a Partner in 2007. His current academic roles include Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School and External Examiner for Product Design at Glasgow School of Art.
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Kevin Lavery
Kevin joined Cornwall County Council in early November 2008, having been appointed to steer the transition to the new unitary council for Cornwall which came into being on 1 April 2009.
He is a senior executive with extensive experience of both the public and private sectors. He has been a client, adviser and provider at the highest levels in public sector outsourcing and partnerships. His early career was with Bexley, Kent and Westminster Councils and with Price Waterhouse. In 1997 he was appointed Chief Executive of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. He left Newcastle in 2001 to be the founder Chief Executive of Agilisys, the e government company. This was followed by spells as a senior director at three large outsourcing companies - Enterprise, BT and Serco. Kevin has had non-executive board positions with Northumbria University and the Housing Corporation.
Kevin was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated at the universities of Manchester, Kent and Southern California. He lives in Falmouth with his wife, Catherine and the two boys, Daniel and Jack.
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David Kester
David Kester leads the Design Council’s national programmes and policies for industry, education and the public sector that drive innovation and strengthen competitiveness in the UK.
David’s current focus is on designing out of the downturn and includes mentoring high-tech ventures on using design to accelerate new innovations, such as green technologies and sustainable services, to global markets. Across Whitehall and at a local level, David is promoting new design-led approaches that turn social challenges into economic opportunity. For instance, the recent Design Bugs Out programme with frontline NHS staff, has matched the challenges of MRSA and c.Difficile to new consortia of manufacturers and designers, resulting in innovative healthcare products and improved approaches to government procurement. Current project themes include sustainable water consumption, crime prevention, community cohesion, and preventative healthcare. David became Design Council Chief Executive in 2003. His background in design, industry and the environment includes nine years as Chief Executive of D&AD. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Art, a member of the Home Office Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime, and a trustee of the Rose Theatre Kingston.
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Robert Woolf
Robert was born and grew up in Stroud – a market town in Gloucestershire reknowned for its artistic community and independent thinking. He studied Media Arts in Exeter, and then moved to Bristol to work for leading digital agency Brann Interactive. He later worked for Orange and Zurich Financial Services in strategic planning roles, before setting up Sea Communications in 2003. And then Robert read ‘Small Is Beautiful’ by E.F.Schumacher and decided, with his wife and co-director Kathryn, to make some changes. They relocated to Cornwall and have been determined ever since to create a unique business that makes a sustainable difference to peoples lives.
Sea have been Senior Design Producers on three Dott Cornwall projects – Designing Communities, New Work Cornwall and the Big Design Challenge. In that time, they have proven themselves to be leaders in design and innovation. They are an important part of Dott’s legacy in Cornwall; their passion and ethos has shone through. Their work in Pengegon, a deprived community in Camborne, has gained special praise for shining a beacon on the positive social and economic impact of community restoration. Robert hasn’t written any books...yet.
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Patrick Gottelier
Trained in Industrial Design (Eng) at Central St.Martins, Patrick left his Masters programme to join the Industrial Management Department at Marks and Spencer. This was followed by freelance career in Interior Design, set design for the BBC, and running an import, distribution business. Patrick set up the Fashion knitwear Label ‘Artwork’ with his partner Jane Gottelier.
Artwork was founded as a ‘home (cottage) Industry’ enterprise distributing the highest possible values in fashion design and production quality. The company attracted the best retailer customers worldwide (Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Bergdorf Goodman Bloomingdales, Seibu, Takishamia etc) . Continued growth took the company beyond its 1200 strong UK workforce to manufacture in HK and China. The consultancy arm of the company provided consultancy services for a range of national and international companies in Fashion and fashion related product such as toiletries, cosmetics and stationary.Eventually licensing the Brand enabled the Gottelier’s to move to Cornwall in 2005 where Jane and Patrick were asked to establish two undergraduate courses at UCF, one in Fashion Design, the other in Performance Sportswear Design now in their 4 enormously successful year.
Patrick’s back ground in industry has enabled him to contribute to the continued growth and success of University College Falmouth in a variety of roles Director of Design, Acting Dean of Art and Design and now fully engaged in developing the Design at UCF as Head of Department of Design.
Patrick’s current passion is for driving the employability of graduates, and the positive application of Design.
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Phil Gendall
Phil is an independent branding, design and communication consultant. He works with ambitious and innovative businesses and organisations to help them grow, and to achieve economic, environmental and social sustainability. He has worked closely with both the private and public sectors on projects focusing on issues to do with health, regeneration, education, technology, marine industries, food and drink, the environment, heritage and tourism. Phil is also an educationalist and mentor in further and higher education and he writes and lectures about design, branding and innovation.
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Alan Lethbridge
Alan Lethbridge is the Operations Manager at ReZolve, a leading Cornish social enterprise. Alan joined ReZolve in 2007 and was largely responsible for the set up and running of the successful reuse centre RE:SOURCE.
Alan previously worked for 30 years in Retail Operations within the fashion industry nationally and for the later part of his career in London’s West End, where, in addition to the day job was engaged as Chairman to the Bond Street Association. On returning to Cornwall in 1999 Alan created a vegetarian and vegan business which he later sold on.
As part of his current portfolio of responsibilities Alan is developing his latest brain child: Fresk, a unique design partnership incorporating ReZolve, Sam & Will Boex of Boex 3D Design Solutions and Matt Hocking of Leap media; bringing together Social Enterprise and the very best of sustainable Cornish design.
Fresk recognises that interiors play an important role in the adoption of environmental ways of living. In as much as the shell of a building may enable the building to reduce the use of resources through insulation and renewable technologies, interiors can affect direct behavioural change, and compliment the aspirations of the owner’s eco design ambitions.
Beautiful eco interiors can reflect your environmental aspirations whilst creating spaces that reduce the use of resources, make the most of sustainable materials, and encourage the use of recycled products and materials.
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Richard Stevens
Richard is the owner and Creative Director of forpeople. Cornish born and Scillonian bred designer Richard Stevens (he now lives in Truro) was previously a chief designer at Ford Motor Company’s Global concept design centre, in London, called ingeni, where he led advanced automotive design programs for Ford's premier brands including Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo.
Richard left ingeni in 2004 to create forpeople, following a brief stint as Design Director at global branding agency Fitch. forpeople have an impressive legacy in the luxury sector but they are not gurus, theorists or design superstars, simply a group of people who share open minds, commercial understanding and an absolute commitment to craftsmanship.
The new British Airways First experience is a perfect example of forpeople’s unique design philosophy – an approach which also produces exemplary design experiences for clients such as Alfred Dunhill, The Boeing Company, Ford Motor Company, Herman Miller, Mars, Nokia, Oneworld, Panasonic and LG.
British Airways First defines a new level of style, service and comfort for the World’s travelling elite. forpeople have worked together with British Airway’s in-house design experts on every aspect of the new First experience. Since 2005, they have been responsible for the overall creative direction of First including all aspects of the brand, product and service elements Clients work with forpeople because everything they do – design for products, services, experiences – starts with how people feel, think and do. And it ends with improving people’s lives. Because if design isn’t for people, what’s it for?
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Robert Young
Robert Young is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the School of Design, where he has directed research activities since 1991. He originally trained as an Industrial Designer. Before taking up a full time academic appointment in 1984 he worked in the furniture and engineering manufacturing industries and as a design researcher with the Home Office and emergency services. He studied for his PhD in design methods for complex systems design through the CNAA and York University Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies. He led the renowned Design for Industry degree programme at Newcastle Polytechnic between 1989 and 1995, which has produced many of the product design industry’s celebrated practitioners. In 1989 he also helped to set up the Centre for Industrial Design and directed its development into the Centre for Design Research in 1996. The Centre specialises in contract research through design practice projects with private and public sector organisations. He began the first design–based Knowledge Transfer Projects and doctoral studies projects in the School in the early 1990s and has assisted seventeen candidates to gain PhDs in design theory and practice topics. His research interests involve; exploring the future of design practice, complex systems design, service design theory and practice, design innovation and technology transfer to assist resilience in industry and action research in design practice including collaborative learning projects.
He has served as a member of the Design Research Society Council and is a member of the European Academy of Designers and the Royal Society of Arts.
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John Miller
Formerly Director of the School of Design at University College Falmouth, currently director of MARK Product Ltd
John Miller is a strong believer in the power of design to influence social and economic change and was an early champion of Dott Cornwall. At that time he was Director of the School of Design at University College Falmouth. He now combines working for UCF and other Universities with his directorship of the furniture brand MARK Product.
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Mark Shayler
Mark has worked on eco-design and environmental issues within business for over 18 years. Specifically focusing on improved packaging and Product design to reduce carbon footprint and resource impact. He has delivered in excess of £60 million of savings through improved product and packaging design, including savings of over £1.5 million and 18,000 tonnes CO2 with 10 food and drink companies in the south west.
After working at the coalface (not literally) with SMEs for 8 years he spent an unforgettable period as the environmental manager of Asda Walmart where he delivered a myriad of innovative environmental projects in waste management, product development, supply-chain training, contaminated land, local supply of products and eco-design of packaging.
He has published widely on business and environment issues and have directly advised in excess of 800 businesses.
He provided on-screen expertise for the Channel Four programme “The Insider” which looked at over-packaging, provided on and off-screen advice for “Green up your life” for Children’s ITV, and also provided expertise on environmental issues for Channel One in New Zealand, for The Politics Show, and Carlton Food Channel. He has also provided expertise and analysis on environmental issues for Radio Four’s ‘You and Yours’, Radio Five Live, and regional BBC stations.
He has presented on environmental issues, particularly eco-design, at hundreds of events including conferences in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Hungary.
He is married with four kids and is currently learning to skateboard and tap dance (although not together).
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Justin Marshall
Justin has recently become an Associate Professor of Digital Craft and works within the Autonomatic research group based at University College Falmouth. He is a practising maker and researcher with a diverse training in range of visual art and design disciplines, culminating in a PhD focused on the significance of digital tools in craft practice, completed in 2000.
For over ten years his research has involved investigating the integration of digital technologies into both art and craft practices. More recently he has become interested in how the digital manufacturing revolution aligned with web 2.0 capabilities has the potential to rekindle people’s urge to ‘make’ and creates the possibility to refigure the relationship between consumers and producers.
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Paul Davies
Chair of Cornwall Design Forum, Paul started his career as a psychologist and has successfully combined his skills with design training to create solutions that persuade, convince and entertain. Paul has worked with international organisations such as Barclays Bank, GE Healthcare, Panasonic, Pentel, UBS Investment Bank and Oxford University as well as ambassadors of Cornish business such as Pendennis Worldclass Superyachts, Cornwall College and The Duchy of Cornwall. Paul is the founder and editor of the design-thinkers website.
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Peter Kirby
Peter Kirby is Creative Director for Cornwall Design Season as well as a writer and artist living in Cornwall with his wife and daughters. During his 20 years in London, he was creative director at maverick ad agency HHCL then left to form Thisness with a plan to work on things he finds interesting with people helikes. His work has appeared in numerous galleries, books, streets, festivals, papers and digital media including The Guardian, Design Museum, The Drawbridge, Material Journal, Tate St Ives in collaboration with Richard Long and the first two London Architectural Biennales. In the past year, he has written manifestos, scripts and ideas for Puma, C4, Sony, Pfizer, Virgin and helped to launch The Big Lunch with The Eden Project. He is currently working on a travelling school for wayward kids, a couple of half-formed books and an ongoing art project that may see the light of day when he’s long gone.
