The Sustainable Design Collective (SDC), a suppose tank group of main design professionals working within the workplace office sector – is inviting entries for its annual awards. The announcement follows affirmation that the third SD Discussion board will probably be held on twenty fourth April 2025 on the Crypt on the Inexperienced in Clerkenwell, London. Free to enter, every entry will probably be assessed fully independently by a panel of eight trade consultants in opposition to specified standards. New to the staff, this 12 months’s panel consists of award-winning product designer, Luke Pearson and Sophie Thomas, founding accomplice at Thomas.Matthews. Assessments embody: entire life carbon efficiency together with contribution to the round financial system; contribution to the well being and wellbeing of the occupants; and social worth.
There are three classes: New construct and retrofit tasks; New merchandise and supplies; Innovation together with new companies or IT options in addition to collaborations with not-for-profit organisations.
The deadline for submissions is Friday twenty first March 2025 and full particulars, along with entry kinds, may be discovered at https://thesustainabledesigncollective.co.uk/awards/
The winners will probably be introduced at a night social occasion held as a part of the Sustainable Design Discussion board. Launched in 2023, this 12 months’s Discussion board will embody the UK launch of Kay Sargent’s new e-book on neuro-inclusivity. This 12 months, there will probably be ‘pace courting’ model spherical tables offering a chance for designers to debate concepts with SDC affiliate members. The one-day occasion can even embody panel discussions and displays and is designed as a information sharing alternative for inside design professionals. Producers and suppliers additionally take part by means of internet hosting desk discussions and workshops.
Launched in 2022, SDC – the Sustainable Design Collective consists of over 30 main designers and specifiers dedicated to appearing as a collective inside the office design group to establish developments and ‘finest observe’ regarding sustainability. The aim of the Group is to advertise and applaud achievements and, extra importantly, to create a discussion board for information sharing and trade.
In addition to the Discussion board and Awards, SDC additionally provides an internet coaching academy and publishes a quarterly journal focussed on higher sustainability.
For additional data – https://thesustainabledesigncollective.co.uk/
