Researcher, teacher, learner and ponderer of design for ecological and social wellbeing. Senior academic @openuniversity & SustainabilitySIG convener @thisisDRS
Applications for @OOCDTP studentships are now open! We award 75+ studentships every year across the Arts & Humanities. Please register to join our online applicant information session on Friday 6 October at 12:30pm: https://t.co/UdA49wkiKr
#happyEarthDay2022. My unsung earth hero is Edith Cobb, advocate for value of nature in childhood imagination. 45 yrs after EC work a new UK sustainability curriculum announced @https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/april/new-natural-history-gcse-to-focus-on-saving-the-planet
Celebrating 50 years of design teaching and research at the Open University with Nigel Cross, Robin Roy and Georgy Holden. 11/11/21 at 16.00 https://t.co/010GHryX4e
@designcouncil This is so critical for UK design futures - a brilliant initiative by the Design Council. We need to bring creativity, humility, eco literacy to debates about our material and resource cultures and the knowledge and skills we value and develop through life.
‘Code red for humanity’ @IPCC_CH
No more ‘messaging’. No more #greenwashing. No time left for ‘climate anxiety’, t-shirts, or slogans.
One activity counts. Action. #ActNow#ClimateEmergency
https://t.co/MKdKQ3DTlL
What could a New Relationship between Local State and Community look like_ and how would it enable deep social change?
Grateful to @TNLComFund and the many who joined me in this enquiry which you can read here https://t.co/PNgRPxaeTm
To mark #EarthDay, on Thurs at 1pm an expert panel gathers to reflect on the findings in the #DasguptaReview on the Economics of Biodiversity, and discuss what it really means to value the natural world. Join the livestream https://t.co/6cQn5qyIDQ #RSAearthday
Great to be part of team working on OU/BBC coproduction #Ayeartochangetheworld. We need to talk 'sufficiency', starting with product longevity @OUFreeLearning https://t.co/F32KPkvzGy
“I don’t want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the science,” says Greta Thunberg in the first episode of a new three-part documentary, co-produced by The OU and the @BBC.
Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World - Tomorrow, 9pm on BBC1.
https://t.co/n4xYPGrRqe
Product sufficiency, #circular economy, design-led #ecoliteracy, #sustainable consumption @designopenuni …. if you’re interested in exploring this “eco-life of products” then apply for a PhD with me at https://t.co/bflIpDxmVZ Funding applications @OOCDTP Deadline 12.01.21
All products should be sustainable
No ifs No buts
We are calling on EU to make all our new products Sustainable by 2030
Have your say today on the Sustainable Product Initiative Roadmap
#GreenDeal#CircularEconomy#SustainableDesign
https://t.co/Uo6ggOgCFo
So exciting to see Greens going into govt in Ireland and winning spectacularly in France
It will mean rapid action on climate, active travel, air quality in cities, warmer homes and much more
Desperately sad that unfair electoral system prevents us having these benefits in UK