Design&assembly 01: Sustainability

Design&assembly is a nonprofit group based in Bristol dedicated to hosting informative and inspiring talks for industrial designers. Our aim is to create an accessible space for people in the industry to connect and share ideas. Find out more here: https://designandassembly.org/

Come along to meet and chat with friendly people passionate about design over drinks and food. Listen to some great talks from some wonderful speakers, learn something new about making better things and leave with new contacts and fresh ideas.

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Speakers
Kerry Briggs - VP of Design and Development Europe, Kinneir Dufort
John Macdonald - Design Director, Matter

Topic
Sustainability

For this event we have two fantastic speakers coming to talk about their experiences with sustainability in industrial design consultancies - Kinneir Dufort and Matter. With topics from tackling tricky clients, pushing eco goals through to production, and implementing sustainability practices into the design process. We’ll be diving into how we can have a more positive impact as designers and engineers.

Kerry will be talking to us about the advancements being made in sustainable design within the medical sector as well as insights learned from Kinneir Dufort’s in-house Sustainability Lab and KD’s global partners at SteriPack. John will be discussing how at Matter they’re tackling sustainability challenges from working with global brands in FMCG to redesigning The Royal British Legion’s symbolic poppy to be 100% paper.

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Times
6:00pm - Doors open, grab a drink and meet some lovely people
7:00pm - Intro, talks and Q&A
8:30pm - Talks finish, networking and good conversation to follow
9:30pm - End of the night

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Venue
Temple Studios, Bristol
Right next to Temple Meads station, first floor up the yellow staircase
(Thank you to our partner, TCN UK, for the use of their wonderful space. Find out more here: https://www.tcnuk.co.uk/)

Tickets
design&assembly is a nonprofit with the proceeds of the event going directly towards supporting this and future events. The price of the ticket includes admission + drink and food.

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Please share design&assembly with any of your design/engineer friends and colleagues who you think might be interested. The intention is to build up these events as a positive resource for the local design community going into the future. 

Finally please if you sign up but are unable to make the event then get in touch at hello.design.assembly@gmail.com so that others who were unable to get a ticket will be able to come.

Thank you and see you there!