Sustainability

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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There’s something growing at the V&A….

To celebrate the FOOD exhibition and the museum’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, we’ve taken a closer look at the V&A Mushroom Farm, a live example of urban farming...
null Holly Hyams
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
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
Design and society

Sustainability: steps and ladders – repair or replace?

null Sherrie Eatman
Museum life

V&A Innovate Talks: sustainability, inclusive design, and identity making

null Holly Burton
Design and society

From Taming to Wildness: Fashion, Nature, Systems Change

null Zofia Trafas White
Design and society

How to write a sustainability plan for a museum

null Sara Kassam
Museum life

Pit stops for pollinators on Exhibition Road

null Catrìona Macdonald
Design and society

Carbon Literacy at the V&A

null Emily Grassi
Design and society

Learning from nature: from ecosystem thinking to climate action at the museum

null Sara Kassam
Design and society

A renewed focus for sustainability at the V&A

null Sara Kassam
Design and society

Upcycling our waste crates in response to LDF’s Day of Design challenge

Dean and Ellen work together to cut down the exhibition crates
null Zoe Louizos
Design and society

There’s something growing at the V&A….

null Holly Hyams
'Self-made' cheese
Design and society

Cheesy celebrity selfies

null Catherine Flood
Museum life

Farewell Fashioned from Nature

null Yona Lesger
Museum life

Pooh + Plywood = Pirates! Sustainable Exhibition Practice at the Museum

null Sophie Sage
Artists in Residence at the V&A

Our Fashioned from Nature Resident Bridget Harvey

null Kate Quinlan
Museum life

Arianna Nicoletti: Sustainable Fashion and Circular Fashion Practices

When I started my fashion design degree in Italy, I realised that my studies were all about how to work in a fast-paced industry,...

null Kate Quinlan
Fashioned from Nature

Quiz: How Much Do You Know about the History of the Fashion Industry?

null Yona Lesger
Fashioned from Nature

Soil, Roots & Plants: The Exhibition Design of Fashioned from Nature

null Yona Lesger
Fashioned from Nature

Centre for Sustainable Fashion: Fashion Now

null Yona Lesger
Fashioned from Nature

Eco Doesn’t Mean Ugly – The Making of Mannequins

null Yona Lesger
Fashioned from Nature

An Earth Day Clothes Swap

null Yona Lesger