I am forwarding this from Elizabeth Tunstall whohas done some great work on trying to create a national design policy here in the US. I know that other countries have already created design policy groups, but in the US we haven't, so her leadership in this area is a pretty big deal.
Anyway, I thought I would forward this on to people's attention. I know I'll be following and contributing where I can. -- dave ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elizabeth Tunstall <etu...@uic.edu> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM Subject: [AIGAExperienceDesign] Call to Action: Redesigning America's Future To: aigaexperiencedes...@yahoogroups.com **Sorry for Cross-Postings** Dear AIGA Experience Design group, The U.S. National Design Policy Initiative has released its policy brief, Redesigning America¹s Future, which outlines ten design policy proposals to support U.S. economic competitiveness and democratic governance. http://www.designpolicy.org/usdp/policy-proposals.html This is one of two publications coming out of the U.S. National Design Policy Summit. The other publication will be the Summit Report on January 16, 2009. The Call to Action is for people to go to the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative website, http://www.designpolicy.org to leave comments about individual policy proposals or offer official endorsements of the Initiative and the ten design policy proposals. Sorry, but the official endorsement part is more effective if you are a U.S. Citizen or Resident Alien. People have gone and downloaded the publication, but without leaving comments or endorsements. We need them in order to demonstrate to Congress and the incoming Obama Administration popular support for the Initiative and the policy proposals. I hope that you will show your support at the http://www.designpolicy.org website. Warm regards, Dori Tunstall __________________________________________ Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, PhD Associate Professor, Design Anthropology School of Art + Design University of Illinois at Chicago Associate Director, City Design Center University of Illinois at Chicago etu...@uic.edu email 312.282.2893 mobile Blog at http://dori3.typepad.com/my_weblog/ School of Art and Design 929 W Harrison Street 106 Jefferson Hall Chicago, IL 60607 . __,_._,___ -- Dave Malouf http://davemalouf.com/ http://twitter.com/daveixd http://scad.edu/industrialdesign http://ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
