Planet Positive Business
As the world faces environmental and economic challenges, businesses must lead the way in building a sustainable future.
The role of business in the green transition.
Designers have a unique role in this transition - redefining how businesses operate, innovate, and communicate to achieve planet-positive outcomes.
The challenges for business and design:
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Short-term thinking
Businesses often prioritise immediate profit over sustainability.
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Overconsumption
Established business models rely on producing more, faster - fueling waste and resource depletion.
The designers’ unique role.
Designers are critical agents of change, equipped with creativity, technical knowledge and collaboration skills. However, to fully support businesses in this transition, designers must develop greater proficiency in circular and regenerative design principles and commercial skills such as governance and value management.
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How can designers upskill to make change?
As part of our Upskill 1 million designers project over the next 12 months, we will be convening education and training stakeholders and designers themselves to co-design what these green skills are and what the upskilling programme needs to look like, driving both government and private sector funding.
Design is critical, from the classroom to the C-Suite. The path to 1 million starts in schools.
There has been a 68% decrease in the number of students taking Design & Technology at GCSE level. We want to help change this and so have collaborated with key stakeholders and designers to create the Blueprint for Renewal; our recommendations to government for a crucial reform of the subject.
If you are an educator or organisation who could help with the upskilling mission we’d love to hear from you.