Week 4

Webinar/Crit

Feedback from peer students – I’ve made bold the areas I need to look into further:

Really exciting and interesting proposal. Making sustainability a clear focus is really strong but ensure you cover all aspects of the sustainable agenda — ensure this permeates through all aspects of the business. The qualified status of the ISO cert is great research and does prove creditable. The budgeting is good strategy – good to differentiate gold / silver / bronze options. Great project management. How could you go on from the initial concept exhibition to offer this as a broader service for other clients. You also look at service design to work with businesses to make their practices more environmentally sustainable and reduce their impact.
Do promotional pens work as part of a sustainability programme? Does merch undermine the project? Dutch ceramicist research project. Pentagram exhibition design. Check out Milan Biennale

My response:
This feedback has enabled me to write about sourcing my sustainable materials and detail that in the business plan. Rightly so from the above comments, my document in the crit didn’t go in to detail about how merchandise was sustainably sourced. As a sustainable based company I felt that was an area I definitely needed to improve in my business plan, so I created a ‘sustainability’ spread with specifics on sourcing materials working in partnership with FSC (sustainable wood from certified forests).

My added in business plan text:

“Our exhibitions
The main approach we take through promoting sustainability to consumers is not to disregard plastic, wood, glass and encourage waste, but to responsibly re-use, recycle, and renew anything and everything one may consume. Once something has been manufactured it exists in the world, and will not begin to decompose for hundreds of years – and when it does, it becomes micro pollutants which endanger wildlife and enter our food chains unknowingly.

You may wonder why or how we can provide our exhibits through sustainable practice. We have ethical, reliable suppliers that work in association with FSC (Forests for all forever) that sources wood, paper and other forest products from well-managed forests and/or recycled sources. It is also guaranteed that all of the merchandise we provide is sustainably sourced through being recycled, biodegradable and made within an ethical trading environment. If you would like to enquire who we work with, please consult with Eco-Collective, who can present the official sustainably sourced trading verification handbook to you.”

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Webinar/Crit

Feedback from peer students – I’ve made bold the areas I need to look into further:

My added in business plan text:

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