...with business, policy-makers, educators, designers and architects
...stimulating innovation, creating new markets and growing the economy
...helping business leaders use design to be more efficient and find new ways to compete
...reviewing developments, shaping places and spaces to meet local community needs
...supporting business and public services to create opportunities and promote design
Book your place now for five events over five days about how design can deliver strategic business benefits.
Running from 19-23 March in and around Bristol, this festival of design has something for everyone.
Following the government's newly published Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth we've published a parallel paper Design for Innovation full of practical plans on delivering design leadership in government and growing the knowledge base on the role and impact of design.
We've also created a set of films about design for growth
Watch this film and find out more about design for growth
We are looking for Built Environment Experts (BEEs) to help us provide guidance and advice on the importance of good design in creating spaces and places that improve everyone’s quality of life.
The members of our expert network make will be kept in constant touch with the latest thinking and be connected to opinion-formers in their field.
Find out more about applying to become a BEE
See what design means to Sir Terence Conran, Vivienne Westwood, Jeff Banks, Lord Norman Foster, Kenneth Grange, Sir Paul Smith and others
We're running two free workshops about how to make better places through local and neighbourhood planning.
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