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URGE Collective

A creative industries collective dedicated to system change

Sep 08, 2026
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Useful Totem: an exploration into circular making
Case Studies  | Sep 08, 2026
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Environmental audit of Wellcome Collection's THIRST exhibition
Newsletter  | May 29, 2026
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DSfEC Sprint to Design Out Waste
Newsletter  | Mar 18, 2026
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ICYMI: the must-read intelligence report released under FOI
Newsletter  | Mar 03, 2026
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Design has a digital carbon footprint that all creatives can address
Newsletter  | Feb 13, 2026
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CIWM partners with URGE to deliver design skills pilot programme

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Solar Storms, Northern lights, and London Craft Week starts today!

Plus a few of our picks from the Green Products Award 2024.

Design delights this May!

Grand Designs Live, opened this weekend with an enthusiastic cohort of 25 Green Grads showcasing their work. Jay Blades’ Craftworks, opens 15-17 May and What's on for Clerkenwell Design Week 2024.

This week we celebrate that the 'Exhibition Design for our time' guide, is now available in all 6 UN official languages.

Join URGE and Art Jameel in a demo session to explore the MENAT adaptation of the guide, and the Bio-Spaces: Regenerative, Resilient Futures exhibition has opened at the Roca London Gallery...

Happy Earth Day! This week Ella Doran has been in Milan with the MA RCA Interior Design programme, and fellow URGEr Michael Marriott was in the city too...

Also in the news this week; our seas and rivers are under threat; can you get involved to turn the tide on the sewage scandal of Britain and support Surfers Against Sewage this coming May?

Entries are open for the first-ever Regenerative Architecture Index, a collaborative effort by Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare.

Alongside, a landmark climate justice victory in the European Court of Human Rights and a new book for Interior Designers; 'Sustainable Interior Design' by Chloe Bullock published by RIBA.

We look back on our work with the Design Museum calculating the environmental impact of their Waste Age exhibition and The World Around Young Climate Prize is open for nominations...

Ella Doran reflects on Joe Macleod’s 'the 5’R’s and why altruism is no match for marketing', and Charles Eisenstein’s 'Machines Will Not Replace Us'.

Alexie Sommer looks back on last weeks The World Around & Future Observatories 'In Focus: Research' event at the Design Museum, and we share the work of Liaqat Rasul in an article by TOAST...

Herding Cats towards Regenerative Business

URGE co-founder John Grant outlines six ways to engage and motivate people to take substantive action.

Coming up this week, URGE has helped organise a roundtable on behavioural change during the Energy Transitions 2024 event at Chatham House.

And there is still time to visit the RCA Textile Circularity Regenerative Fashion Hub at Rich Mix and visit Design Centre London, for talks and conversations about circular methods and mindsets...

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