The Design Council wants to hear from practitioners as part of Design Economy 2021 to ‘better understand who is a designer today, what their personal and professional backgrounds are, and what kind of design they practice’.
… growing resource for policy makers, business leaders, public sector professionals, architects…
The Design Council writes:
Design Economy 2021 is ?Design Council’s most ambitious research?project?to date. This?three-year?programme – with its interactive, digital format – will be a growing resource for policy makers, business leaders, public sector professionals, architects and designers.
As well as assessing the?current?state of design in the UK, Design Economy 2021 will explore the role that design can play to ‘build back better’ and create a more just,?healthy?and regenerative world.
Over the months ahead, Design Council?will be?curating new data, evidence,?stories?and toolkits to?champion design?and further its use. Readers will be invited to become co-researchers and collaborators, rather than simply recipients of the research.
We’ll have an ongoing focus on?equality, diversity and inclusion,?encouraging questions about?how well design is responding to people’s different?wants and needs,?its vital role in levelling up the UK’s regional economies,?and the changes needed to ensure that design works for everyone.
We want to make the Design Economy as representative of every designer as possible. Unfortunately, national datasets aren’t always as inclusive as they could be. That’s why we have decided to launch a new survey, to better understand who is a designer today, what their personal and professional backgrounds are, and what kind of design they practise.
Some of these questions are quite personal, and you are able to skip any that you would prefer not answering….
We will share all results of this survey in May 2022.
When you’ve finished, could you forward this to other designers you know? We want to get as many responses from as many different designers as possible.
