• Design Action Plan: The Introduction

    Design Action Plan is an AHRC funded research project led by Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and PDR, Cardiff Metropolitan University in partnership with the Design Council. The aims of the project is to develop an action plan optimising the strategic use of design in the public and private sectors in the UK […]

  • Toward a Design Action Plan for Northern Ireland

    On 7th September 2018, iLab, and the DAP Team hosted an exploratory workshop to look at the drivers and barriers to the more strategic use of design in Northern Ireland in order to gauge the appetite for a design action plan. In recent years, a number of governments around the world have adopted design action […]