Join Deborah Nagan as she leads a conversation between Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, and Dr Ehab Sayed BIOHM, to explore the role of the designer as a collaborator between people and nature.

📍 #DesignForPlanet Festival, 18 October, 15:00 BST.
Sign up: bit.ly/3qBr12W

This year's #DesignforPlanet festival starts tomorrow and is FREE for anyone to join online. Sign up here! A huge design learning event: 50 sessions including keynotes, 'how to' sessions, collaborative workshops from UX, product & fashion to architecture. designcouncil.org.uk/our-events/des…

Monday morning welcoming the Indian delegation from Confederation of Indian Industry and share and learn around design, business and material innovation with Design Council Innovate UK

Loved bringing together 3 climate design communities for our 2nd #designforplanet collective at London Design Festival - we need a diversity communities to learn, share and support each other to change their practice. #designdeclares #creativesforclimate ⚡️ Lucy von Sturmer Alexie Sommer Climate Designers

First #designforplanet collective London Design Festival bringing together an emerging field of sacred design, connecting with our inner wisdom, ancestral knowledge and nature. 🌿deborah szebeko Nicola Peel Tamsin Smith Joel Gethin Lewis

🤖🎨 Fascinating meeting with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, expertly facilitated by Design Council & Cat Drew ! We delved deep into the world of #AI and its evolving impact on design & creative sectors.

At Skribbl, we've always championed the harmony of human creativity & responsible use…

Reminded how great these Slow Lane principles are from Sascha (full book well well worth the read):
- Hold the urgency
- Listen
- Share the agency
- Nurture Curiosity
- Use Technology as an Enabler
slowlane.us/slow-lane-prin…

I’ve seen folk sharing these kinds of call outs to creatives… never dreamed I’d be part of a team making them 💕
We’re looking for Dudley Borough based creatives to support co-created projects that can inspire people to connect with nature…
dudleycreates.net/news/dudley-cr…

📢'Attitudes to AI' is our new microsite with The Alan Turing Institute, showcasing the findings of our public attitudes survey and report 'How do people feel about AI?'

It highlights key findings and responses around benefits, concerns and #AI regulation.

attitudestoai.uk

Thank you Ellen MacArthur Foundation for hosting a wonderful circular design leaders sprint, creating connections across business and institutions to develop enabling conditions for this work. So refreshing and lots of new inspiration :)

Check out this year's jam packed #DesignforPlanet festival! Everything will be streamed live on 17-18 October, for you and your colleagues to access for free! Have a look, sign-up here and do share :) designcouncil.org.uk/our-events/des…

Last few days for anyone to apply for a brilliant Director of Impact role at the Design Council - leading our transformation work to help business, big organisations and the design sector embed design for planet in their everyday work. designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/joi…

We’re looking for a brilliant member of our exec team to support our team to achieve impact in our projects to shift design, business and public sectors to design for planet. DM me if interested!! designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/joi…

Amazing opportunity for 30 young designers to come together with inspirational Royal Designers for Industry over 3 days at end September - around the theme of OPTIMISM! Apply here 👉🏼royaldesignersforindustry.org/rdi-sessions/1…

Great site visit to ‘the UK’s greenest building’- venue for this year’s Design Council Design for Planet festival architype.co.uk/project/the-en…

The Enacting Gregory Bateson's Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design website is live: enactingecologicalaesthetics.com
An Arts and Humanities Research Council + DFG public | @[email protected] funded research project led by @_ben_sweeting and Dulmini Perera.

If you are in NYC today, head down to lower east side for the opening of Guillaume Cornet amazing solo show. Four years of mind-blowing urban imaginaries bursting out of the paper. Inc his biggest piece ever! Proud beyond words xxxx

Nice blog sharing different perspectives (policymaker, community innovator, designer, evaluator) from our mission-led design programme with Mayor of London. Collaboration not competition, spreading impact rather than scaling.

Need funding to Design for Planet? Innovate UK new Design Foundations Grants available between £40-80k for early stage exploration, ideation and prototyping. Webinar tomorrow 10-12:30 for more deets iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/design-…

VERY EXCITING line-up at this year's Design for Planet festival - across design for reparability, environmental justice, biomaterials, regenerative food systems and more 🌍💚