This week I went to Washington DC to attend the U.S. National Design Policy Summit, a gathering of academics, government employees and representatives of professional associations who were focused on raising the profile of design in the United States. The gathering was organized by Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall of the University of Illinois – Chicago, a design anthropologist who wants to “create an actionable agenda of U.S. design policy for economic competitiveness and democratic governance among professional design associations, design educational bodies, and the design-related Federal government agencies.”
I’m still processing and internalizing my reactions to the meeting and what it all meant. I’m glad I went though. I met interesting people and learned about the trials, travails and tribulations of other professional associations like the DMI, AIGA, and the IDSA.
