Design Influences
By Regitze Marianne Hess
When talking about the health, well-being, affordability, adaptability, and sustainability of the places where we live, work, and play, the design of our built environment matters. The influence of design matters a lot. It goes beyond urban design and spans across the design gamut, both in time and scale. Ranging from designing, planning, engineering and infrastructure, cityscapes, landscapes, harbourscapes to designing and constructing buildings and places, spaces and objects, to configuring service design and interaction design, all the way down to rendering the way we read our cities and environments through wayfinding, graphics, messaging navigating and nudging us in the way we act and interact in our urban environments.
Because design matters:
it is important to be conscious of the influences, influences and influencers effecting design and empowering design as a means for fostering greater quality of life. This is the focus of Design Influences on the 21st January 2021
it is important to be impactful as possible – and to rally as a collective voice – the collective voice of design – which is the intent of the Design Declaration
IFHP is involved and engaged in Design Influences and the Design Declaration, because the city is humankind’s greatest collective work of design. And this takes cross-sectorial collaboration and transversal thinking.
To share this, IFHP is hosting the first ever Zoom session of Design Influences on the 21st January 2021
Design Influences is a 2 hour on-line convening of voices on what is top of mind amongst leading organizations working within the field of design or with design matters, where IFHP will be offering perspectives on design critical to the health and well-being of cities and communities.
Design Influences is a forum for the Design Declaration, signed in Montreal in October 2017. Design Influences is profiling the voices rallying around the Design Declaration, which includes IFHP, which has been front and center in the making of the Design Declaration.
This seminal session of Design Influences is being orchestrated as a three part discourse on:
Design Influences – what are the most significant influences on design – a sampling of what are current urgencies, agendas, trends around the world impacting the way we make, create, educate and work with design
Design Influencing – how design is currently influencing the world around us - perspectives on how design can make a difference, and how we can demonstrate that design matters – because we measure what matters
Design Influencers – who are at the crux of design - who are the changemakers, who are the forces instrumental in advancing the role of and responsibilities of design – aka people for design
Design Influences is featuring voices from line-up of organizations: ASF-INT, BEDA, CAP, Cumulus, DDC, DEFSA, EMF, GPN, INDEX, IxDA, ICoD, IFHP, MEDEA, SDN, WUC who are concerned with environmental, economic, social, cultural sustainability of our cities and societies and who represent thinkers, practice, policy, activism, design leadership influential to influenced by design and who have a say on the metrics; education & research; policy crucial to leveraging design for all.
This line-up includes IFHP and some of IFHP’s immediate network of partners and peers in the advancement of sustainable cities, the New Urban Agenda and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Design Influences is an initiative by the Design Declaration Steering Committee, consisting of: BEDA, Cumulus, IxDA, ICoD, IFHP, WUC
Design Influences is the first of what hopefully can become a series of virtual fora advancing the collective voice and influence of design in a real world of complex challenges.
To paraphrase a motto we are fond of at IFHP, Cities for People take People for Cities, when it comes to design:
Design for People takes People for Design - expressing what is top of mind amongst the world of design.
Let 2021 be an auspicious year for design serving to benefit the health and well-being of cities, citizens, communities and peoples everywhere.
For more check out Design Influences
To register for Design Influences go to: Webinar Registration - Zoom
Any questions concerning Design Influences contact designinfluences@designdeclaration.org
Yours truly,
Regitze Marianne Hess
CoChair of Design Influences
Design Declaration Steering Committee
designinfluences@designdeclaration.org
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IFHP International Relations
@IFHPKnowledge