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Sustainability is crucial to the V&A, and has been a strategic priority since 2005. The museum continues to make progress in reducing its environmental impact and is a leader in the sector.

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Fun in the forest

Talking about the environment is serious proposition – often accompanied by stern faces, suits, and graphs. In From the Forest, a new display in the V&A’s Dr. Susan Weber...
Danilo Marques dos Reis
Design and society

Material Cultures: Woodland Goods

null Anna Bates
Design and society

A brief history of waste wool

null Jessica Harpley
Design and society

Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures symposium 2024

null Anna Bates
Design and society

Christien Meindertsma: on linoleum

Linoleum is a misjudged material. Its name is generally used as an umbrella term to describe any malleable floor covering in sheet form – including petroleum-based materials...

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Make Good

Christien Meindertsma: Re-forming Waste

null Maude Willaerts
Design and society

The Housing Harvest: Matthew Rosier

null Sandy Jones
Design and society

Beatrix Bray: Access and ownership 

null Sandy Jones
Design and society

The Exchange – Nia Manoylo

null Maude Willaerts
Design and society

The queer ecology of us

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Design and society

Phoebe Oldfield: A state of equilibrium

null Jessica Harpley
Make Good

Making space for absent subjects

null Johanna Agerman Ross
Make Good

Ash tray: voice notes, memory, and wood

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Design and society

Inventing new support systems – George Fereday

null Johanna Agerman Ross
Design and society

Thinking at the timescale of forests: Adam Stanford

null Maude Willaerts
Make Good

Elm, wellness and play

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Design and society

Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures symposium 2023

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Make Good

Field Notes Summer School – reading and watching list

null Maude Willaerts
Design and society

Peanuts in the archive: Imperial Chemical Industries, Tibor Reich and the British Industries Fair

null Hannah Auerbach George
Design and society

An experiment in the forest

null Zofia Trafas White
Design and society

Call-out for applicants for the Field Notes summer school

null Johanna Agerman Ross
Design and society

Making the Make Good display

null Alicia González-Lafita
Design and society

Fun in the forest

null Danilo Marques dos Reis
Design and society

Empowering and enabling: Employee sustainability Learning & Development Programme

A group of outlined figures with the words Carbon Literacy Project
null Suzanne Goode
Design and society

Circular umbrellas

null Mark Howells
Museum life

In Conversation with VIN + OMI on Earth Day

null Zofia Trafas White
Design and society

Net Zero design & circular systems

null Evonne Mackenzie
Caring for our collections

Climate resilience for museum collections

null Bhavesh Shah
Museum life

Material choices – what are things made from and why?

null Alex Newson
Design and society

Make Good: Rethinking material futures

null Johanna Agerman Ross
Design and society

‘No Going Back’ – The Happy Museum’s peer learning programme for ‘Rapid Transformation’

null Zoe Louizos

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