A year of APDIG - and plans for 2015

1. APDIG 2014

2. Design Commission Inquiry: Digital
Economy

3. Discussions at the RA
• Beauty, Planning and Policy (May)
• Places to Call Home: Designing the Next
Generation of Housing (October)
• Humanising Infrastructure: Connecting to
Culture in Major Projects (November)

4. ‘In the Regions’…
• Future Factories – Sheffield
Design Week (June)
• The Great Debate – Design
Manchester Festival (October)
• ELIA Biennial Conference – Glasgow
(November)

5. Parties…
• Design, Technology and Innovation Spring
Reception with the KTN, Design Museum
(April)
• Design Summer Lunch, House of Lords
Terrace (July)

6. 2015
• Exported by Britain Campaign (January –
July)
• A Manifesto for Design (February)
• Design Commission Essay Collection:
Designing Democracy (March)
• Creative Education Series (June - July)
• Design Commission Inquiry: Place and
Behaviour (October)
• Manufacturing Commission Inquiry: Industrial
Sustainability (October)

7. A Manifesto for Design – Member
Breakfast Events, Design Museum
• Housing and Infrastructure (7th January)
• Education (14th January)
• Health (21st January)

8. Exported by Britain
Currently in pilot stage, this campaign hopes
to ask every MP to nominate a product
exported from their constituencies, from
either the manufacturing or creative
industries.
A couple of the nominations so far…

9. Stephen Timms MP
Member for East Ham
Tate and Lyle’s Golden Syrup
Nadhim Zahawi MP
Member for Stratford Upon Avon
Pashley Bicycle

11. A New Manufacturing Commission

12. Thank you to our supporters