Tag: empowering design practices
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The Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017 announced today!
Prepare to be inspired by the fantastic designs entered for the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize, which is in partnership with the V&A and the Crafts Council. The BBC website is hosting a range of features and interviews to celebrate craft design and the use of materials and technologies in design. It’s worth a listen. This […]
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From Design to Innovation and Enterprise
Trends on UK business start-ups are upward. Companies House data analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs showed that new records were set in 2016 with a total of 657,790 new UK businesses. This equates to 75 an hour! Many will be new design-based businesses. The Design Council’s 2015 publication ‘The Design Economy’ valued the contribution of the […]
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Places of worship, design, and communities
In the Empowering Design Practices project we have been working with groups of different faiths and denominations who look after historic buildings and who want to develop and ensure the sustainability of those buildings through co-design and community engagement. Places of worship have historically been functioning as centres of community life. But what is the […]