Systemic Design event

Design Council’s mission is to make life better by design. We work with people to create better places, better products and better processes, all of which lead to better performance. We commission pioneering evidence-based research, develop groundbreaking programmes and deliver influencing and policy work to demonstrate the power of design and how it impacts three key areas of the economy: business innovation, places and public services. We bring together non-designers and designers from grassroots to government and share with them our design expertise to transform the way they work.

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The challenges that we face today — the climate crisis, ageing populations, in-work poverty, polarisation of society — are not ones that anyone can tackle alone, and not ones that all the current answers aligned together would solve. Systems change is an approach that looks beyond individual ideas, creates the space and conditions for radical new ways of thinking to emerge and connects together often disparate groups who have a common cause. As design has evolved over the last 30 years, growing from the design of products, through services to policy, and from buildings to places, designers have entered the world of systems change. Design adds immense value in the way that it visualises complexity, making it understandable; moves to making and taking action where others feel overwhelmed by that same complexity, and creates playful alternatives which can turn the we see a problem – and find its solution – on its head. The Design Council and The Point People have been listening to designers who are working systemically to understand their practice, and how it is evolving. This event will share some current practice and case studies about how design is being used to solve some of society’s biggest challenges, which are tricky, complex and can’t be solved by one intervention alone. This will be an inspiring evening for designers who want to work in this way, leaving you with stories to show how it can be done and approaches to designing deeply, collaboratively and radically, allowing you to play your part in tackling our toughest challenges and moving to a better future.

<ul><li>Jennie Winhall, Alt/Now, Rockwool Foundation</li><li>Cassie Robinson, Strategic Designer and Head of Digital Grant Making at the National Lottery Community Fund</li><li>Nick Stanhope, Shift Design</li><li>Alistair Parvin, Open Systems Lab </li><li>Fashion Revolution - tbc</li><li>Cat Drew, Design Council</li></ul>

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