It’s National Gardening Week in the UK and We Have Some Ideas to Get You Working for a Greener Planet Wherever You Are!!

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The Royal Horticultural Society has just launched the UK’s biggest environmental campaign, Britain in Bloom 2012, to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee!

To start it off, the first ever Royal Horticultural Society’s National Gardening Week (that’s this week!) has been giving away thousands of wildflower seeds for everyone to sow to help replenish some of the 97% of wildflower meadows lost in the UK since 1930.

The RHS want YOU to plant as many wildflowers as possible and are offering a discount on packets of corn marigold, corn poppy and cornflower, among many other seeds, here. We think you can take inspiration from the UK and do this wherever you are!

Once sown, you can watch your wildflowers bloom and translate your meadow into a pattern to make your own top dedicated to Britain in Bloom!

The wonderful People’s Print show you how!

There are free information packs available that tell you all about the Buglife that your wildflowers will encourage and, as you know, agriculture and human survival depends upon healthy buglife!

We’re going to make a Bumble Bee and Lavender top next week!

Get inspiration from Melanie Bowles’ wonderful Mary’s Blouse here and sign up to make your own with her next month here!

If you’re in London, you can join the Mad About Meadows groups too here.

We hope that’s enough inspiration to get you started!

Next Generation Designers from All Industries Book June 16th Lecture!!

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Following hot off the success of Slow Studio’s successful first lecture, we’re delighted to announce booking is now open for Lecture 2, ‘An Introduction to the Corporation’s Innate Psychological Relationship with Environmental Destruction’ taking place June 16th in central London.
Book your place to join the conversation HERE!
Just maybe there’s a connection between the themes of Lectures 1 and 2. Why miss out on the conversation? There’ll be a repeat of Lecture 1 at 7pm (GMT+1 for those joining us from overseas) on May 30th hosted by Hub Westminster. Put it in the diary!
Poster detail from Lecture 1 in case you missed it:
Lecturer, presenter, facilitator and activist, Dr Emma Neuberg is a published author and these lectures spearhead her next book.







Reiko Sudo and Slow Textiles Group Founder, Emma Neuberg, will Introduce the New Show Japanese Style: Sustaining Design on March 31st!!

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You’re invited to join Reiko Sudo and Dr Emma Neuberg among several preminent British slow textiles practitioners at the opening event of the fabulous new exhibition, Japanese Style: Sustaining Design at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales: japanseasonwales – Home.

Emma will present her textiles work that marries tradition with new technologies. She will talk about her passion for slow textiles and slow design and introduce her new venture, The Slow Design School, and its aims and vision for British and European craft.

She’ll also showcase the best of the Slow Textiles Group practitioners.

Further details on the Ruthin Craft Centre shortly: Croeso i Oriel Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun / Welcome to Ruthin Craft Centre.

Hope to see you there!

What Social Outcome does your Design Strategy Have? Open Lectures and Debate Start March 24th 2012 at Slow Studio, London

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What fuels humans between the ages of 16 and 36 to discard millions of tonnes of clothing, shoes and accessories across the globe each year?
British philosopher, Alain de Botton, suggests a significant contributing factor is ‘status anxiety’. 
He lists five cultural contributors to status anxiety. These are lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency. 
These are socially driven dynamics. 
As a human being and a creative, how will you create designs, systems and services that address the destructive aspect of these cultural traits? How can your design skills intervene and stall systems of  lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency?


The Slow Design Lectures & Seminars start March 24th 2012 in London.



Book your place to start the conversation HERE!