Speaker Bigoraphies : Can the Creative Industries lead us to a Sustainable Future?
These are the speakers for our Sustainability event on 16th June. For the full event details click here.
Franny Armstrong
Former pop drummer and self-taught filmmaker Franny Armstrong has directed three feature documentaries - The Age of Stupid (2008), McLibel (2005) and Drowned Out (2003) - which have together been seen by 60 million people on TV, cinema, internet and DVD worldwide. In the early days of the internet in 1996 she founded the McSpotlight website, which Wired magazine described as "the blueprint for all activist websites". Through her company, Spanner Films, Franny pioneered the “crowd-funding” finance model, which allows filmmakers to raise reasonable-size budgets whilst retaining ownership of their films - Age of Stupid is the most successful known example, raising £800,000+ from 300+ investors - as well as the “Indie Screenings” distribution system, which lets anyone make a profit by holding screenings of independent films - Stupid was screened locally 1,100+ times in the first six months. In March 2009, the solar-powered Age of Stupid "People's Premiere" set a new Guinness World Record by being simultaneously screened in 63 cinemas across Britain, whilst only producing 1% of the emissions of a standard premiere. It also hit No 1 at the UK Box Office. Then in September 2009, a million people watched Stupid's Global Premiere event - featuring Kofi Annan, Gillian Anderson & Radiohead's Thom Yorke - in 700 cinemas in 63 countries, linked by satellite. In September 2009 Franny founded the 10:10 climate campaign which aims to cut the UK's carbon emissions by 10% during 2010 and which has amassed huge cross-societal support including Adidas, Microsoft, Spurs FC, 55,000 people, 1,500 schools, a third of local councils, the entire UK Government and the Prime Minister. 10:10 launched internationally - initially in 10 countries - in March 2010. Franny is a Londoner born and bred.
Tim Brown
Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking and innovation to businesspeople and designers around the world. He participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his talks “Serious Play” and “Change By Design” appear on TED.com.
An industrial designer by training, Tim has earned numerous design awards and has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well being of people living in emerging economies.
Tim advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies and has led strategic client relationships with such organizations as the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase. He is a board member of the Mayo Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not-for-profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor. Additionally, he writes extensively, with articles in the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change By Design, was released by HarperBusiness in September 2009.
Sebastian Conran
Sebastian trained in Industrial Design Engineering at Central School of Design. By 1978 Sebastian was working at Wolff Olins, a leading corporate and brand identity consultancy, where he was given creative responsibility for key corporate accounts. In 1981 he was recruited as head of product design at Mothercare, a collaboration that transformed the appearance and performance of childcare equipment.
In 1986 he started “Sebastian Conran Associates”, a product and brand development consultancy that worked with a variety of international businesses to develop healthcare & consumer goods, industrial design, and luxury goods. 1992 Sebastian started a separate design & manufacturing partnership with designer Tom Dixon. In 1999 SCA merged with the Conran Group to form Conran & Partners, which has almost 100 employees working in architecture, interiors, product & graphic design. Studio Conran is the Brand & Merchandise development division of the Conran Group.
He taught furniture design at the Royal College of Art; he lectures frequently; judges many international design awards [D&AD, Design Week, Red Dot, RSA, etc.]; and has written several books, articles and papers on design. An active member of many bodies, he is, among others Visiting Professor of the University the Arts London, Trustee of the Design Council – the UK’s national strategic body for design, Trustee of D&AD – the UK’s international organisation for creative professionals, Trustee of the Design Museum, and the Conran Foundation, its founding body, Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Institute of Packaging, Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, Chairman of Design & Technology Alliance – the UK’s Home Office body with the objective of tackling crime through design thinking, and Ambassador for the children’s education charity, ICAN and the anti copying in design lobby group ACID.
In October 2009, Sebastian left Studio Conran to reopen the doors of Sebastian Conran Associates.
Professor Frances Corner, OBE
Professor Corner, who took up the reins as Head of London College of Fashion, a college of University of the Arts London, in October 2005, has championed the use of fashion as an agent of innovation, especially in the areas of sustainability and health and well-being. This emphasis has seen London College of Fashion become a world leader in this area, a status that was further enhanced by the creation of two new pioneering centres –the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and the Centre for Fashion Science.
Professor Corner is currently a London Leader for Sustainability and regularly speaks on this subject to national and international audiences. She is also the Chair of CHEAD (Council for Higher Education in Art and Design) and was awarded an OBE for Services to Fashion in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is Founder Director of Forum for the Future and former Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission
Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, with 70 staff and over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world’s leading companies.
Jonathon was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2000 and held the post until 2009. This is the Government's principal source of independent advice across the whole sustainable development agenda. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency since December 1999, and is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales's Business and Environment Programme which runs Senior Executives' Seminars in Cambridge, Salzburg, South Africa and the USA. In 2005 he became a Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water, and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980-83) of which he is still a member; chairman of UNED-UK (1993-96); chairman of Sustainability South West, the South West Round Table for Sustainable Development (1999-2001); a Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005).
His latest books are Capitalism As If The World Matters (Earthscan, revised 2007), Globalism & Regionalism (Black Dog 2008).
Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
www.jonathonporritt.com
www.forumforthefuture.org.uk
www.sd-commission.gov.uk
www.cpi.cam.ac/bep
Michael Pawlyn
Michael Pawlyn set up Exploration in 2007 to focus on biomimicry – an emerging discipline offering innovative architectural solutions inspired by nature. From 1997 to 2007 he worked with Grimshaw Architects and was instrumental in the design development of the Eden Project. He was responsible for leading the design of the Biomes and proposals for a third major climatic enclosure. He initiated and developed the Grimshaw environmental management system resulting, in December 2000, in the company becoming the first firm of European architects to achieve certification to ISO14001.
He has lectured widely on the subject of sustainable design in the UK and abroad and in May 2005 delivered a talk at the Royal Society of Arts with Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface. In May 2009 he opposed the renowned environmental sceptic, Bjorn Lomborg, at the BCO conference in Edinburgh.
In 2006 he was appointed to represent Grimshaw as a Founder Member of the UK Green Building Council and in 2007 was elected as a committee member of ‘The Edge’, a think-tank dedicated to addressing important political, social and professional issues. He has taught on a number of courses about Biomimicry at Schumacher College with some of the world’s leading figures in the field and is currently working on an RIBA book titled ‘Biomimicry in Architecture’.
Lord Puttnam Of Queensgate, C.B.E.
David Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent film producer. His many award winning films include The Mission, the Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and the Memphis Belle.
He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment. He is Chancellor of the Open University. In 1998 he founded that National Teaching Awards which he Chaired until October 2008. He served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council (2000-2002), and on a variety of other public bodies. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, as well as serving as a Trustee of both the Tate Gallery and the Science Museum.. He has also recently become a Trustee of the Eden Project. He was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) from 1994 to 2004, and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006.
He was appointed President of UNICEF UK in July 2002, and played a key role in promoting UNICEF’s advocacy, awareness and fundraising objectives. He retired from this post in July 2009.
In February 2006, became Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, and in April 2006 Chairman of Futurelab. In April 2007 he became the Chairman of Profero serving in that capacity until 2009 when he became Deputy Chairman. In 2007 he served as Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Climate Change Bill Scrutiny Committee. Also in 2007 he was appointed as Chairman of North Music Trust, The Sage Gateshead. Most recently he was made President of the FDA.
David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he has been honoured as a Chevalier (‘85), Officer (’92) and, most recently (2006) Commander of Arts and Letters.
Dan Burgess
Dan is a husband of one and father of two, geek, cyclist, barefoot runner, novice bread maker, vegetable grower and Arsenal season ticket holder. His career has spanned a&r in the music industry, DJ, web startups, technology insight and NPD, communications strategy and innovation, with the last 3 years focused on creative communications and sustainability.
Dan founded the Naked Planet practice at Naked Communications. Described by his clients as an ‘innovator with conscience’, he has led the development of Nokia’s global award winning ‘power of we’ program. Currently studying for a Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility, he is a founding contributor of the Conservation Economy, http:/
Twitter: @dansolo
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