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Katie Treggiden is the founder and director of Making Design Circular, an international community and online learning platform for eco-conscious designers, makers, and artists.
As an author, journalist, and podcaster, Katie Treggiden advocates for a hopeful and positive approach to environmentalism. She has published six books on design and sustainability, regularly contributes to national publications, and frequently hosts or speaks at global events on design, craft, and environmental issues.
With over 20 years of experience in the creative industries, Katie’s work has appeared in major outlets such as The Guardian, The Observer, Crafts Magazine, Dezeen, and Stir. Her latest project, the book Broken: Mending & Repair in a Throwaway World and its accompanying podcast, Circular with Katie Treggiden, explore whether craft can help save the world.
Katie was also the co-founder of the women’s network Bloom, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and serves as a non-executive director at Krowji, Cornwall’s largest creative hub.
Katie will share innovative examples of designers and makers using waste as their primary resource. From a swing made from human hair to glassware made from dumped domestic appliances, she will demonstrate our capacity for change and spark defiant hope.
In this highly personal talk, Katie will share her own story of losing all belief in a positive solution to the environmental crisis and how she found her way back to the ‘defiant hope’ that now offers a daily reminder in her email signature.
She will share the three-step process she has created that has already helped hundreds of others move through feelings of despair, reconnect with the natural world and take aligned action.
In this eye-opening talk, author of Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World (Ludion, 2023), Katie Treggiden, will share the reasons that elongating, and perhaps even eliminating the replacement cycle is good for business, as well as people and the planet.
Building on the research she conducted at the University of Oxford, and her subsequent book on the same subject, Katie explores the complex relationship we have with repair, the social and cultural as well as logistical barriers to mending, and how offering or enabling repairs to your products can improve customer loyalty, more profitable business models and reputational resilience.
Katie not only highlighted the horrifying scope of the world’s waste problem, but helped the audience to think differently and begin to recategorise waste as an opportunity. Most importantly, she left them feeling hopeful and ready to take action.
Katie cuts through the bluff and bluster of trends to eke out underlying ideas. As a critic and commentator, her analysis enriches the debate with hard-gleaned insight, clarity and charm.
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