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Art + Design Visitors Series: Clare Brass, "Designing for a circular food world"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
School of Art + Design
Date
Mar 4, 2021   12:30 pm  
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Originating Calendar
A+D Student events

To register: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrcuyprDgjH9TwuYDTitEvanjR_EiFCF9b

Abstract:
Clare will talk about her journey from commercial designer to becoming a creative sustainability consultant in the food sector, taking on a mission to change the way designers across the world are taught.  

Bio:
Clare Brass is director of Department 22, a design and innovation consultancy with a focus on food, exploring better solutions for a better 22nd century. She was head of sustainability at the Design Council before setting up SEED Foundation, developing user-centered entrepreneurial solutions to social and environmental challenges such as food, water, and waste. She set up and ran SustainRCA at the Royal College of Art and was a mentor for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. http://www.department22.uk/

Sponsors:
School of Art + Design Visitors Committee
Ed Zagorski Visitors Fund and Big Monster Toys, LLC

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