Reading FC has unveiled a new home shirt design which features a graphic illustrating the impact of the climate crisis on temperature changes. The design is part of a partnership between the football club and the University of Reading to “start conversations around the climate crisis and ultimately inspire action”. The shirt graphic is based on a diagram created by Reading’s Professor Ed Hawkins in 2018. Each stripe represents the average temperature for a single year of the club’s 151-year history, relative to the average temperature over the period as a whole; shades of blue indicate cooler-than-average years, while red shows years that were hotter than average. More here

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Morag Myerscough has created 105 four-metre flags hanging along the length of London’s Oxford Street carrying the message ‘Time for Clean Power’. The flags are made from recycled marine plastics and were commissioned as part of the #TogetherBand climate movement – set up by sustainable fashion brand Bottletop. More from Creative Review here

“It’s abundantly clear we’re facing a crisis of communication when it comes to recycling. Current systems leave consumers in the dark, trying to decipher incomprehensible combinations of words, pictures and colours. People simply don’t know what they can recycle or how to dispose of packaging appropriately,” argues Jenny Cannon of design studio Butterfly Cannon in Design Week. Cannon suggests the UK adopt The Harmonised Waste Symbols System, used in the Nordics. More here

Interested in learning “how to be a good ancestor”? Ella Saltmarshe and Pat McCabe will be leading a 5-day residential course at the Dartington Trust in South Devon to develop “the ideas, tools and space to enable a new sense of our place on the planet and the legacy we wish to leave. We will examine how to shift the systems we live in and how to drive multi-generational projects that last longer than our own lifetimes.” The course runs from 26 to 30 September. Details here

The Museum as a Catalyst: in a new blog post, the Design Museum’s Chief Curator Justin McGuirk argues that museums have a major role to play in “proactively supporting a just and sustainable future”. He reveals that new Arts and Humanities Research Council funding, delivered through the Design Museum’s Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition programme, will be the largest publicly funded programme of design research and innovation in the UK. Delivering the programme, he argues, “potentially redefines what a museum can be. We tend to think of museums as places that help us understand the past and sometimes the present. It is rare for a museum to play a proactive role in helping to shape the future, but that is exactly what Future Observatory will do…People desperately want to be able to believe in a better future. Museums can help shape that future, and invite the public on that journey.” Read the piece here

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