Can a communication designer change the global conversation on rubbish? Sophie Thomas OBE—a rare blend of campaigner, chartered waste manager, and practicing designer—joins Grant Gibson to discuss her extraordinary, three-decade journey at the vanguard of sustainable design. In this episode, we explore how ‘material intelligence’ and circular design thinking can inform activism. We discuss: Graphic Activism: How design can move beyond ‘guilt’ to create real environmental change.Rubbish Tours:...
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Recycling the Unrecyclable with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle
Upcycling discarded denim with Anna Foster of ELV Denim
Ending single-use plastic with Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez of Notpla
Tackling waste colonialism with Shubhi Sachan of MLI
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