Design Declaration Steering Committee announces online forum to explore influences impacting design and how design can best influence.

Three years have passed since the signing of the Montréal Design Declaration in 2017, and one and half has passed since we last convened as a  coalition around the Design Declaration in St. Etienne in 2019. 

This on-line gathering is an opportunity to hear the voices of the 20 plus organizations underpinning the Design Declaration, along with thought leaders and experts, on the influences impacting design and how design can best influence.

Co-chaired by Regitze Hess and Alok b. Nandi, Design Influences is convening a spectrum of voices, instrumental to the Design Declaration, to share and hear what is influencing design and the design community and how design and the design community can influence.

  • Design Influences – what are currently the most significant influences on design
  • Design Influencing – how design is currently influencing the world around us
  • Design Influencers – who are at the crux of design

DESIGN INFLUENCES
21 January 2021 @ 16:00 – 18:00 CET
Register today

For information:
designinfluences@designdeclaration.org

Design Declaration Summit (DDS) Steering Committee launches two more international projects to be presented at the Pre-Summit on 3-5 April 2019 in Saint-Étienne, France

Ramping up to the DDS Pre-Summit, set to take place in Saint-Étienne on 3-5 April 2019, two more international projects are launched today.  Responding to the “Call to Action” from the historic Montréal Design Declaration, the Design Declaration Summit (DDS) Steering Committee is initiating the DDS Government Design Policy Project and the DDS Design Research and Education Project.  These are accompanied by a third initiative, the DDS Metrics Project, launched earlier this month

All three Projects will be featured in dedicated sessions in Saint-Étienne. Twenty-nine (29) international and national entities have already confirmed participation in the event.

Unleashing the Potential of Design Policy

The DDS Government Design Policy Project is a global collaborative effort to catalyse design policy that targets “Design for People”, and will source and showcase various best practices in government design policy.

The DDS Government Design Policy Project session will feature presentations from expert contributors profiling public, private and civil society perspectives on design policy followed by opportunities for panel and roundtable discussions amongst participants.

The Project is being developed by a Project Management Committee (PMC) and is enriched by the contribution of experts from both within and outside of the design world. 

The Project Management Committee is Co-Chaired by:

  • Mr. Flemming Borreskov, Past President, International Federation for Housing and Planning,
  • Ms. Eija Salmi, Secrtary General, Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

With expertise from:

  • Mr. Jeffrey Soule, Steering Committee member,  World Urban Campaign
  • Mr. Thomas Vonier, President, International Union of Architects
  • Mr. Sune Knudsen, Chief Operating Officer, Danish Design Center
  • Ms. Päivi Tahkokallio, Vice President, Bureau of European Design Associations
  • along with insights on policies at various scales from local to global

When asked to elaborate on the significance of policies focused on “Design for People”, Mr. Flemming Borreskov states, “It is only in this way that design can change the world. We need committed, inclusive, adaptive and nimble leaders within business, government and civil society to become aware of the potential than can be unleashed through good government design policy.” He adds, “Design for People” is meant to benefit the common good, but for this we need “People for Design”. We need more than policy, we need leaders who will champion the power of design.”

But competent leadership and good governance and policy requires capacity building on “both sides of the table”. Co-Chair Ms. Eija Salmi, reflects “The research and education community can play a pivotal role in developing good design policies and educating future leaders with the design world. This is what the DDS Government Design Policy Project is seeking to do: bring together both those within the design world and those beyond to innovate and implement design policy.”

Synergies & Circularities in Design Education & Research

The DDS Design Education and Research Project is an international coalition seeking to advance the recognition of design education and research on a global level, as a key long-term strategy for achieving United Nations Sustanable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and on a local level, embedding greater consideration for design in the day to day, both within the private and public sectors, at work and at home.

In the words of IxDA; “Within our practice there is a rich debate about what fundamentals a designer should be equipped with as an outcome of their education. Increasingly, these skills are being recognized in business and beyond, so that design literacy is becoming a core skill of many professions. Moreover, as the world around us and the context for designing changes and adapts, we understand that education is a lifelong learning process.”

The DDS Design Education and Research Project will explore the scope of design education and research for the benefit of practitioners, students and those who seek to leverage design skills and processes to succeed in creating a world that is environmentally sustainable, economically viable, socially equitable, and culturally diverse.

The session on Design Education & Research is a gathering of various facets, approaches and models of design education and research:

The Project Management Committee is Co-Chaired by:

  • Mr. Alok Nandi, President, Interaction Design Association
  • Mr. Christian Guellerin, Past President, Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

With expertise from: 

  • Ms. Rozina Spinnoy, Founder, BIDs Belgium
  • Mr. Mariano Alesandro, Head of Future Thinking & Technology, INDEX: Design to Improve Life
  • Ms. Charlotte Høeg Andersen, Education Director, INDEX: Design to Improve Life
  • along with leading voices on the interface between industry with design education and research

For more details, please contact:

Jovana Milović
Programme Manager
jmilovic@designdeclaration.org

Design Declaration Summit Steering Committee launches the Metrics Project, ramps-up for the Pre-Summit on 3-5 April 2019 in Saint-Étienne, France

Carrying forward the “Call to Action” from the historic Montréal Design Declaration, the first of three Projects to be featured in dedicated sessions at the Saint-Étienne Pre-Summit Meeting is announced today. Eighteen (18) international and national entities have already confirmed participation in the event.

The DDS Metrics Project is an international collaborative effort establishing metrics and collecting data and case studies to more effectively communicate the value of design.

The session will involve a presentation of the DDS Metrics Project framework and will feature keynote presentations from expert contributors, with opportunities for panel and roundtable discussions amongst the official Participants.

The Project framework is being developed by a Project Management Committee (PMC) and is enriched by the contribution of experts from both within and outside of the design world. 

The Project Management Committee is Co-Chaired by:
Mr. Bart Ahsmann of the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA), and
Mr. David Grossman of the International Council of Design (ico-D).

With expertise from:
Ms. Sian Whyte, Head of Research and Insight at the Design Council (UK),
Mr. Simon Widmer, Circular Design Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (UK),
and a premier international business consultancy.

When asked what specific challenge is being addressed by the DDS Metrics Project, Mr. Ahsmann said “Design and the design process are often not fully understood, causing non-design entities to undervalue the role and potential of design. Designers do not utilize the language of non-designers to effectively convey the value of design.” Mr. Grossman added, “There is a dearth of data and case studies presenting the value and potential of design that utilize metrics relevant to non-designers”. 

Responding to the need for discernable and communicable measures of the economic value and impact of design, the DDS Metrics Project will collect and present data, develop indicators based on measurable metrics transmitted in the language of non-designers, and describe both the size and impact of the design sector itself. 

Furthermore, the projectwill enhance the consolidation of the design community, reflected in the Design Declaration Summit process, and better convey the potential and value of design to non-design collaborators.

The Project will be global in approach, focusing on establishing uniform standards for reliable data, developing quantitative and qualitative measures to evaluate design impact across key sectors: economic, environmental, social and cultural. In addition, case studies demonstrating design impact and utilising metric measures, will be collected and presented to targeted audiences. 

The Project session will be presented at the Pre-Summit roundtable, which is a milestone event leading to future full-scale Design Declaration Summits.

For more details, please contact:
Jovana Milović, Programme Manager at jmilovic@designdeclaration.org

The DDS Pre-Summit meeting is taking place in partnership with the Biennale International Design Saint-Étienne.

For more information on the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne, please contact:
Camille Vilain, International projects officer at camille.vilain@citedudesign.com

International design organisations announce next stage of Montréal Design Declaration deliberations to be conducted in Saint-Étienne (France) on 3–5 April 2019 in conjunction with Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne

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For immediate release
18 July 2018

An agreement was signed today between the Design Summit Meeting Steering Committee (DSMSC) and the Cité du design—École Supérieure d’Art et Design Saint-Étienne to conduct a 2019 Pre-Summit Meeting on 3–5 April 2019 to coincide with the City’s design Biennial, the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne. The Design Summit Meeting Steering Committee represents the 22 international entities that participated in the first Design Summit Meeting (DSM01), which took place in Montréal (Canada) on 23–24 October 2017 resulting in the historic Montreal Design Declaration.

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