Meet the DEAL Community

Oskarshamn, Kalmar, Sweden

I’m a part owner, principal and teacher at a upper secondary school i Sweden and we aim to have the SDGs as a backbone in every subject. Our aim is to give all of our staff and students knowledge and ability to act. With science as starting point for information they learn to use the SDGs, Johan Rockströms Planetary Boundries and The Doughnut economy as three ways/models to look at and understand the challenges and possabilities of sustainability.

CV31 3NT, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

I am a zoologist who is director of the British company, Vitsœ, that has made the furniture of the German industrial designer, Dieter Rams, since 1959. I succeeded the founder, Niels Vitsœ, and relocated the company and its production from Germany to the UK in 1995. Today Vitsœ exports 75% of its sales to 90 countries. I led the team that designed and built our (quietly acclaimed) naturally-lit and -ventilated timber production building that opened in 2017 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Vitsœ was a founder member of the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge in 2011. I have lectured annually at Cambridge for almost 20 years. Vitsœ is now in the process of transitioning to a stewardship model of dual ownership.