We've developed Design Bugs Out, a challenge to furniture and technology designers and manufacturers to make hospital furniture that helps reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) like MRSA or C.difficile.
Find out more about the challenge and its results
Public Services by Design is a new programme that the Design Council is developing to enable and inspire innovation within public services. The development phase of the programme was launched at a Design Council workshop ‘Towards Better Public Services by Design’.
Find out more about the programme and view a video of the workshop.
If you would like to become involved with the programme, or nominate a particular project to be involved in this development phase, please email us at: publicservicesbydesign@designcouncil.org.uk
We're co-ordinating a £1.6million programme with the Design and Technology Alliance, a group set up by the Home Office to deliver designs that tackle crime. In May 2008 we ran a workshop to discover the potential for designing out crime from hot products like mobile phones. We've also compiled a detailed set of case studies and expert opinions to help you. Find out more
We have worked with Isis Innovation on a pilot project that offered design support to start-up technology businesses at Oxford University. We are now working with DIUS and other government bodies to extend design support to more technology transfer offices (TTOs) and get more evidence of the benefits of collaboration between TTOs and the design industry. Find out more
Sustainable design is at the heart of what we consider to be good design. We think designers and businesses should be thinking sustainably, and that means sustainability for the environment, for the economy and for society.
Find out more from our guide to sustainability and sustainable design
We ran Designs of the time (Dott 07) over the course of 2007 in the North East. In conjunction with ONE North East, the regional development agency, we engaged thousands of local people in design activities to help create new public services like eco-friendly schools, urban farmed food and better sexual health services.
Read all about the highlights of Dott 07
Good Design Practice is a campaign run by the UK Design Skill Alliance, and we're part of it. We want to help schools, univerisities and design firms learn about design better so that they can keep the UK design industry one of the strongest in the world.
Find out more about Good Design Practice and how the campaign can help you
NextNet is a network of top designers and design educators that's been set up by the Design Council with support from the Cultural Leadership Programme, a government-funded scheme that aims to nurture world class leaders in the creative industries. Leading with Design was an event where two top designers shared with us their tips for the top.
Watch the videos or listen to audio recordings of them speaking.
We ran InterSections, a two day conference in Newcastle, in October 2007. It was chaired by Jeremy Myerson from the RCA and it brought together 34 leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving and how this is affecting its relationships with other fields.
Listen to audio recordings of the event or download the discussion transcripts