SMILE Knowledge Cluster

Sustainability, Marketing, Innovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Organised by:

The Centre for Sustainable Design

Objectives

To raise awareness and understanding amongst the regional business community and University for the Creative Arts (UCA) students and lecturers of sustainability and its impact and relationships with marketing, innovation, design, leadership and entrepreneurship.

Strategy

To produce a bi-monthly forum of free 1-2 hour lectures and discussion.

Programme 09

28th January 09
12.00 - 2.00
Sustainable Innovation: Global Challenges & Opportunities
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design
9th March 09
12.00 - 2.00
Transition Towns: Low Carbon Innovation in Practice
Finn Jackson, Change Management Consultant
15th June 09
12.00 - 2.00
The Reality of Eco-building - it's all about the Design!
Trudy Thompson, Founder & CEO, Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre
2nd October 09
12.00 - 2.00
As Good as New: Product Design and Remanufacture
Casper Gray & Damien Jones, Directors, Wax RDC and David Parker,
Head of Remanufacturing, Centre for Remanufacturing & Reuse
26th-27th October 09
Sustainable Innovation 09
24th November 09
1.30 - 6.00
Sustainable Building Products & Technologies
26th November 09
12.30 - 2.30
Sustainable Innovation & Design Executive Briefing
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design
16th February 10
8.00 - 10.00
Achieving ‘Zero Carbon’?
Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies

Blake Lapthorn, Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK
26th February 10
12.00 - 3.00
Responsible Design, Entrepreneurship & Leadership
Gary Waterworth Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance
26th March 10
12.00 - 4.00
Green electronics: environmental law and eco design update
15th April 10
1.00 - 6.00
The Eco-innovation Workshop
28th April 10 Eco design for Manufacturers
29th June 10 Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies
1st July 10
2.30 - 5:00
Austerity Business - Doing More with Less Through Eco-Innovation
8th-9th November 10 Sustainable Innovation 2010
31st January 11 Marketing Your Eco-Products Workshop
9th February 11
OpenGreen
16th - 17th March 11
Visit to Rotterdam Promoting Cross-Border Collaboration
24th-25th October 11
Sustainable Innovation 2011

* Dates, topics and lecturers may be subject to change