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
30th June 10 Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies
July 10
12.00 - 2.00
SMILE - Speaker 1
September 10
1.30 - 5.30
Eco-design for Electronics
8th-9th November 10 Sustainable Innovation 2010
17th November 10 Eco-design for Manufacturers
December 10
12.00 - 2.00
SMILE - Speaker 2
February 11
1.30 - 5.30
Eco-innovation
March 11
12.00 - 2.00
SMILE - Speaker 3
June 11
1.30 - 5.30
Eco-design for Electronics
July 11
12.00 - 2.00
SMILE - Speaker 4
December 11
12.00 - 2.00
SMILE - Speaker 5

* Dates, topics and lecturers may be subject to change