The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently.
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Cynicism remains the enemy of a robust civic imagination. […] Robbed of our agency we lose sight of the fact that we are part of shaping a different reality.
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There are tensions between direct action (that benefits from relationship and learning) and designed interventions (that benefit from analysis of leverage anticipated to effect long-term impacts)…
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Missions can be powerful frames for achieving significant societal goals, mobilising resources, linking activities across different disciplines and types of research and innovation, driving systemic change and making it easier for citizens to understand the value of investments in research and innovation.
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We see that those working within public services seeking to effect systemic change run up against a myriad of obstacles. Navigating these tensions and challenges requires a relentless focus on the beneficiaries of the work and an awareness of the wider system. This is the work of our time.
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Our mutual global challenge is quite clear: we are overshooting. We use and consume much more than we give back to the planet. In order to accelerate the necessary change, a broad circle of stakeholders across architecture, academia, art and various professions have joined forces to develop a Danish-led bid for the New European Bauhaus.
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Where commercial projects have a clear idea of the user and clear measures of success […], public sector design projects have no set “bottom line.”
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[…] replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement […]
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