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SUMMARY:Toward a Design Action Plan for Northern Ireland
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, a number of governments around the world have adopted design action plans including Denmark\, Estonia\, Finland\, France\, Iceland\, Ireland\, Latvia and Sweden in Europe and Singapore\, South Korea\, Hong Kong and India\, among others. \n\n\n\nThe Irish Design 2015 initiative was an implementation mechanism of the Irish Action Plan for Jobs and represented the most significant investment in design promotion in Ireland ever – €5 million. The initiative was ambitious and exceeded its targets resulting in 4\,000 new jobs created in design\, 476 Irish companies showcased internationally\, €24m in design-related exports and 28.5 million people at home and abroad engaged in events. In parallel\, to ID2015\, the government developed a design policy framework with six action areas: \n\n\n\n\nIncreased use of design-driven innovation in the Wider Enterprise Base\n\n\n\nBuilding scale in the design sector\n\n\n\nA step-up in the engineering design sector\n\n\n\nSupporting entrepreneurship in the design sectors\n\n\n\nDeveloping skills and talent in design\n\n\n\nMore females in design roles.\n\n\n\n\nWhat are the lessons for Northern Ireland? How can NI mobilise the design sector and raise awareness of the strategic contribution of design in government? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalcolm Beattie\, Head of iLab\, outlined the objectives and upcoming actions of the User Factor project – a three year collaboration between eight partners looking to understand next practice in design support programmes. This project is funded by Atlantic Area. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin McKeown\, from the Northern Ireland Design Alliance\, shared his experiences of being involved with the Irish Design 2015\, it’s success factors and the lessons for the North. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Walsh\, part of the Service Design Network chapter in Ireland\, presented a snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the design sector. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop brought together 28 representatives design agencies\, innovation consultancies\, various government departments\, a skills council\, innovation agency and academia. \n\n\n\nThe first hands-on activity focused on the barriers to and the opportunities for the more strategic use of design in NI in relation to eight stakeholders (design support bodies\, design practitioners\, education sector\, businesses\, government\, public sector\, third sector and general public). The most significant barriers related to education\, the private sector and government. It was highlighted that there is not a clear pathway to a career in design within education. The private sector understands design in a limited way and does not value design’s contribution to innovation. Although design is entering the language and practice of government in NI\, the pockets of activity are sparse and there is limited exchange and sharing of good practices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe second exercise focused on brainstorming ideas to capitalise on the opportunities and tackle the barriers. Although we developed a number of ideas\, each group developed one priority concept. This including fleshing out the aim\, identifying delivery actors\, understanding the outcomes and measuring the impact. The concepts included: \n\n\n\n\nBuilding a case for design to promote effectively to enterprises in NI.\n\n\n\nIdentifying and empowering design champions within the Northern Ireland Civil Service to embed service design approaches.\n\n\n\nImplementing a series of capacity building initiatives for small businesses as well as the public sector in service design.\n\n\n\nEngaging a wider stakeholder group in exploring the Design Ecosystem and jointly developing a series of actions to enhance the use of design in NI.\n\n\n\n\nInitiatives and workshops like this have taken place in the past in Northern Ireland. Although all the responsibility does not reside with iLab\, through the User Factor project and the Design Action Plan project there is an opportunity to take forward some of these ideas. \n\n\n\nThis article was originally written by Dr Anna Whicher. You can find the original article at: http://pdronline.co.uk/blog/2018/09/towards-a-design-action-plan-for-ni
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SUMMARY:Design Action Plan: The Introduction
DESCRIPTION: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 for maximum societal and economic benefit. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch demonstrates that design has a huge role to play in driving innovation that results in societal and economic benefit (Design Council\, 2018; Innovate UK\, 2016). This benefit is currently not being maximised in the UK as we do not have a consolidated\, national action plan for design that integrates key stakeholder agendas (e.g. Design Council\, BEIS\, AHRC\, NESTA\, Innovate UK\, KTN\, etc.) and generates new insights that results in an evidence-based\, high-level resource which compels decision-makers to enhance and increase the strategic use design as a driver of innovation. An action plan is critical as it provides users of design with a heightened\, high-level understanding of what routes to innovation design can offer organisations and how design can be operationalized to maximise societal (enhanced wellbeing\, increased social cohesion\, improved human experiences) and economic (innovative products\, improved services\, efficiency gains) benefit. The integration of the what (demonstrating) and the how (implementing) sets this research apart from previous studies as it connects strategic vision with operational stepping stones of how design can create societal and economic benefit and as a result enhance the competitiveness of\, and wellbeing in\, the UK. \n\n\n\nThe research challenge therefore is to develop a comprehensive action plan in such a way that it combines an evidence based high-level resource that compels decision-makers (in both the public and private sectors) to increase and enhance the strategic use of design as a driver for innovation and provides a roadmap to how that could be achieved. \n\n\n\nFor more information about the project team\, steering group members and partners\, please visit the people page here.
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