...with business, policy-makers, educators, designers and architects
...stimulating innovation, creating new markets and growing the economy
...helping business leaders use design to be more efficient and find new ways to compete
...reviewing developments, shaping places and spaces to meet local community needs
...supporting business and public services to create opportunities and promote design
That's what we asked at our first Design Forum, which brought together policymakers, designers and business leaders to consider whether now would be a good time to develop a UK Design Strategy. Find out more
Following the government's newly published Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth we've published a parallel paper Design for Innovation full of practical plans on delivering design leadership in government and growing the knowledge base on the role and impact of design.
We've also created a set of films about design for growth
Watch this film and find out more about design for growth
We've investigated the crime experience of contemporary housing schemes and created six case studies of what works and what could work better, to help designers and other stakeholders create safe, attractive neighbourhoods.
Learn more about how to create safe places to live through design
Well-designed infrastructure schemes can leave a positive legacy and become an asset, rather than a burden on communities according to the Thames Tunnel Design Review panel which considers how good design can help address key challenges facing the 'super sewer' project.
Read the Thames Tunnel Design Reviews
See what design means to Sir Terence Conran, Vivienne Westwood, Jeff Banks, Lord Norman Foster, Kenneth Grange, Sir Paul Smith and others
We're running two free workshops about how to make better places through local and neighbourhood planning.
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