URGE Collective

URGE joins the World Design Organization | Updates from founders Sophie Thomas, Michael Pawlyn, and Alexie Sommer | The next generation of sustainable designers at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair this week.

Online passes are still available. Catch URGE’s highlights on reimagining economies, cities and ecosystems. Plus: get your set of Design Declares Climate Action Cards, launched at the Congress.

URGE’s Sophie Thomas invites you to take part in a pioneering year-long pilot programme developed with CIWM, Design Council and WRAP – offering behind-the-scenes access to waste facilities, expert-led workshops, and practical tools for a truly circular economy.

With highlights from bike tours to bench displays, hands-on workshops and the D! Climate Action Cards - LDF 2025 offers creativity, collaboration, and climate action.

Across the two days at the Barbican, URGE co-founders Alexie Sommer, Michael Pawlyn and Sophie Thomas will join an inspiring line-up of speakers. Here’s how you can join them.

The International Court of Justice has delivered its opinion that climate inaction can breach international law. But the most inspiring part? It all began with 27 law students from the Pacific Islands.

Interior Design MA students from the RCA bring radical spatial experiments to The Gallery, and 125 objects explore humanity’s relationship with water at the Wellcome Collection.

Design Declares invites contributions to its Climate Action Cards for the World Design Congress 2025, plus selected New Designers talks and tours this week.

As the Design Council launches its Skills for Planet Blueprint — a first step toward up-skilling one million designers in green skills — now is the time for designers to embed the mission. By Alexie Sommer & Bengt Cousins-Jenvey.