Notes Design

Last week, leaders representing the major U.S. professional design organizations, design education accreditation organizations, and Federal government design assembled in Washington D.C. for a National Design Policy Summit, with the aim of developing a blueprint for a U.S. national design policy.

Organised by the highly respected Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, associate professor of design anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the event had a very strong agenda and a high-level participants list, but... it is entirely off the radar.

No conference website. No articles. No blog posts. No videos.

I am eager to modify this post with some follow-up where people can read more than just the announcement. Elizabeth?

Meanwhile, the Europeans have been active too with a big conference on global design policies in Turin, Italy. An early review was published in Design Week, and next week I will post a longer backgrounder right here on Core77.