Design and the Public Good: Creativity vs. the Procurement Process?
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Barry also encouraged the design community to improve their lobbying skills in order to put design at the heart of everything we 'should be doing as a modern, progressive and innovative society'
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On 2nd March the Associate Parliamentary Group, in partnership with the DBA, launched the findings of its 6 month inquiry into procurement of design services with a reception and panel discussion in the House of Lords. Group Officer Barry Sheerman MP called for the design community to be more determined in their lobbying of government, in the mission to bring design to the heart of public life:
‘Through this report we’ve engaged some of the leading people in design, engaged parliamentarians from all parties. But the coming election poses a real challenge. The composition of the house will be changed fundamentally. Design is at the very heart of most of what we do as civilised human beings, and we’ve got to engage the people who run this country in a more meaningful way.
Barry also encouraged the design community to improve their lobbying skills in order to put design at the heart of everything we 'should be doing as a modern, progressive and innovative society'
