APGDI Newsletter September 09

05/11/09 APGDI Newsletter September 09

Newsletter
Issue 26
September 2009
 

Upcoming Events

Researchers’ Lunch Briefing

Friday 23^rd October, 12-2pm, Attlee Suite

In association with: Design Council

An opportunity for researchers and Parliamentary staff to find out more about the work of the Design Council, and the role and value of design and innovation to UK businesses and the public sector. And a free lunch!

Economy 2020: Innovation and Reform, Roundtable Breakfast Discussion

Tuesday 27^th October, 8.30 – 10.30 am, Astor Suite

Speakers:	Sir Alan Rudge, Chairman, ERA Foundation Sunil Rai Chopra, Vice President UK, Tata Consultancy Services Nick Hussey, Director, Manufacturing Insight
Chair:	Derek Wyatt MP

How much can the economy continue to rely on the financial services sector? Could growth in the innovation and advanced manufacturing sectors compensate for loss of earnings in the financial? How can we stimulate a faster pace of change? What skills do we need to be building now?

Design in Procurement Report Launch

Wednesday 11^th November
7-9pm, House of Lords Terrace

In association with: Design Business Association

The latest APGDI report will examine to what extent the public sector understands and harnesses the strategic value of design, and how the specific processes relating to procurement of design services could be improved for the benefit of all.

Please contact Jocelyn Bailey at the APGDI for further information about attending upcoming events.

Design and Innovation News

The annual London Design Festival celebrated its 7^th year this September

Opened by London Mayor Boris Johnson, the festival once again highlighted the global primacy of our capital as a creative hub. Take a look at the website to find out what happened: www.londondesignfestival.com

Design Council Chief Executive David Kester suggests Design should be more closely linked with STEM in an address to the Lib Dem conference

Design Council to launch Patient Dignity Competition

Design Council to investigate the role of design industry in the economy

NESTA: The Geography of Creativity, interim report

“Although there is an increasing recognition of the positive role that creative industries play in innovation and growth, there is little evidence on the spatial dimension of this impact.. .In this interim report, we map the presence of creative firms across Britain as a first step towards establishing their impact on regional innovation at a second stage of the project”.

Download the full interim report here

Innovation in Fashion

Manufacturing a la mode: NESTA launches programme to unite UK manufacturers and fashion designers

Sir John Chisholm is appointed as Chair of NESTA

Anti Copying in Design launch two No.10 petitions, click on the links below to lend your support:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DesignRight/

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/IPDamages/

ACID (Anti Copying In Design) is a hard-hitting action group committed to fighting intellectual property (IP) theft and the promotion of IP as a positive commercial force.

22^nd October 2009: the DBA’s design Effectiveness Awards

The most important way of communicating the value of design is by measuring its true effectiveness. The DBA's annual Design Effectiveness Awards are both prestigious and authoritative, the only award scheme that uses commercial data as a key judging criteria.

BEDA highlights the importance of design as an innovation tool for European industry by announcing a European Design Day on 1^st October

Manufacturing Insight appoints Nick Hussey as its new director

Furore within the design community over GLA London identity tender

It’s the free pitching debate. Again.

Sharing Experience Europe publishes its first bulletin

SEE is a network of eleven European partners aiming to influence how design can be integrated into regional and national innovation policies. Six SEE bulletins are to be published between 2009 and 2011. This edition includes a research paper presented by Dr James Moultrie (University of Cambridge), interviews with Mika Takagi (Design Policy Office, Japanese Ministry of Economy) and Julio Frias (Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico), an article on the future of EU innovation policy, a special report on the SEE partners’ study visit to Helsinki, two design policy case studies and a Library of references to related research and policy documents.

Download the bulletin here

CABE celebrates its 10^th Birthday by highlighting 10 places where it has made a difference

CABE and Department of Health: Good housing design can help elderly people keep their independence

10 case studies of housing schemes for older people, each of which offers inventive design and management solutions linking home and social care.

Proof that design affects quality of life!

Nearly nine out of ten people say that better quality buildings and public spaces improve their quality of life, according to new MORI research published by CABE on its tenth anniversary.

IDEO and Forum for the Future develop i-team 2.0 – design thinking for sustainability

Business + public sector + sustainability + design thinking = innovative solutions to some of today’s most urgent problems

In 2008, in partnership with global design consultancy IDEO, Forum for the Future ran the i-team project with three local authorities - Kirklees, St Helens and Suffolk - to inject a people-centred, sustainable innovation process into the design of public services. Click here for more information on how the first phase of i-team was run.

Now, together with IDEO, Forum have built on phase one of i-team to develop i-team 2.0, a new model of collaboration designed to harness the skills of both private and public sector organisations to innovate and influence behaviour-based sustainability challenges.

Forum are looking for businesses and public sector organisations to get involved in i-team 2.0, to tackle the big sustainability challenges together and find solutions they can co-deliver.

Please contact Fiona Bennie at Forum for more information or if you'd like your organisation to get involved

COI set to refine its design procurement framework

The Central Office of Information is scrapping its ‘design and creative for print’ roster and splitting it into three new frameworks, in an attempt to speed up the procurement process

Home Office: design quality crucial in countering terrorism

Safer places: a counter-terrorism supplement

This supplement was out for consultation over the summer. It says that there is no “one size fits all” answer to designing for counter-terrorism: different sites present unique challenges that need bespoke solutions. And it stresses joint working from planners, designers, security advisors, engineers and developers to create solutions.

Designers to find new ways of protecting shopkeepers from crime

The Home Office has opened a competition for designers to develop new ideas or methods to tackle retail crimes such as shoplifting

In Parliament

Business and Enterprise Committee publishes Eleventh Report

Risk and Reward: sustaining a higher value-added economy

“Britain genuinely and wrongly believes itself a nation in which manufacturing is in decline, where there is no high technology industry… We need to accept that the innovation and experimentation the higher value-added economy requires will mean that projects sometimes fail, and that, in the long term, there is no reward without risk.”

Read the full summary here

Public Accounts Committee publishes Forty-Third Report

Learning and Innovation in Government

“To find more efficient and effective ways of delivering services with reduced resources, government need to learn from past experiences, and identify and implement innovative ways of tackling problems. This is particularly important in the current economic climate. Innovation involves trying new things, some of which ultimately will not work. So experimentation is necessary, but with public money at stake, government needs to be able to halt ineffective activities quickly and learn lessons from them.”

Read the full summary here

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