Elise Foster van der Elst

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Straight Talking Sustainability · Change is the only constant with Elise Foster Vander Elst, The Design Museum · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

um you know some real message there for people to think outside the box a little bit and just say okay we're not like imperial college but we kind of are and we're in the same place yeah absolutely and this everything everywhere all at once i think that's really empowering because it really speaks to me in terms of our approach at the design museum and it's an invitation for people to use their specific skills and talents and that's what i love about it you don't have to be an actress you don't have to be an expert in carbon accounting

use what you're already good at.

If you're a curator and you build stories, weave environmental messaging into that storytelling.

If you're in the finance team, explore how we can decarbonize pensions.

If you're in the exhibitions team, working with designers, designers love briefs.

They love constraints, exploring new materials.

That's actually super exciting.

And I think there really is this invitation, particularly with training like the Carbon Literacy Program, which is how we met, to invite people to reflect on their own roles and to think, you know, what am I really good at?

I think if you really hate Excel spreadsheets, spending your life carbon accounting probably isn't what's going to bring you the most joy or satisfaction.

So I think having that ability to reflect

pause and reflect either through training or just in discussion with colleagues and peers is a really good moment to really understand your value and how you can contribute to this because we've all got something to contribute wherever our experience and our jobs are.

Absolutely.

And so many of our different organisations are deeply intertwined and have this deep relationship with what's happening with the planetary emergency.

So the Natural History Museum, you know, we're looking at dinosaur bones.

This very long-term view of what's happened over a huge amount of time is fascinating.

really enlightening to the public.

And so can we be future-facing as well?

And the Natural History Museum have a fantastic, fantastic approach to tackling the climate emergency.

At the Design Museum, we've really evolved with the times.

You know, we had this big exhibition in 2021 called Waste Age, and it looked at how design has been really complicit in the planetary emergency.

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