Design Your Way to Net Zero

Sommer is a Designer and Communicator focused on the intersection between design creativity, business sustainability and authentic communication. A founding member of URGE collective, Alexie is passionate about delivering positive impact applied through strategic thinking and design intuition. Previously creative director at Thomas Matthews and Design Director for creative at The Guardian and The Observer newspaper group.

Pandit is Head of Sustainable Bonds for EMEA and the Americas at HSBC and previously worked at BNP Paribas, where she led ESG for BNP Paribas’ debt syndicate desk. Prior to that, Pandit headed corporates sustainability for BNP Paribas in the UK, and helped to define the firmwide sustainable financing agenda. Pandit has a rich and varied background in ESG, having worked with a number of organisations such as Al Gore’s The Climate Reality Project.

Fullerton is a graphic designer at Notpla. He’s a hip-hop and hummus enthusiast from London. With a background in graphic and product design, he worked on the design and strategy for international spirits brands for eight years. He believes that truly great design comes from challenging and disrupting. At Notpla, he creates beautiful, intelligent and inspired work focused on the company’s identity, goals, and values.

Zhu is a Data and Method Analyst at xtonnes. He combines quantitative expertise from his engineering background with a passion for the environment to deliver curated solutions to better society and planet. With a range of carbon analyses experience spanning from product lines to industrial facilities and more, he is particularly interested in how best to facilitate action in helping companies transition to a low-carbon future.

Lupone is a Project Manager experienced in the arts and culture sector. She worked on our recent 'Waste Age: What can design do?' exhibition. Prior to joining the museum, Lupone worked for ten years on a variety of projects for biennials, museums and galleries in Europe, Africa and the USA. She holds an MA degree in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art and a BA degree in Criticism and Curating from Central Saint Martins.

Quinn is working at Notpla as an Impact & Sustainability Associate. Her background includes design, human geography and international development. She has always been interested in thoughtful design and its role in limiting our impact on the planet. Starting her Impact role one year ago, she has been involved with Notpla in the early stages. She loves to demystify sustainability and share knowledge about best practices of material's use.

Macalliver is a Director at xtonnes, and has experience building relationships and using data to drive change across the private and public sector, having worked on some of the toughest strategic and delivery challenges of major organisations across finance, retail, the public sector and telecoms. She has modelled and advised businesses from FTSE 100 companies to 25-person design firms on their current and projected carbon impacts.

Reducing impact is everyone's business and a continuous learning process. Discover how the Design Museum is experimenting with adopting new methods to cut the environmental cost of its exhibitions. Through Waste Age: What Can Design Do, on display until 20 February 2022, the museum set out to understand the resource use, production methods, supply chains, and lifecycles of all exhibits and materials.

To make sure the museum was genuinely challenging existing methods, an advisory panel of leading experts were appointed alongside URGE to guide the development of the exhibition, and the museum teams also partnered with designers dedicated to ecological practices.

"We asked specialists to monitor our process, helping us to make change throughout."
– Gemma Curtin, Waste Age Curator, the Design Museum