D E S I G N // L E A D E R S H I P
A collaborative research community focused the application of
design leadership + design thinking
D E S I G N . L E A D E R S H I P
Design leadership is about bringing people together to question the status quo.
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Design leadership is about guiding a process to improve the way things happen.
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Design leadership is about facilitating others to design their own futures.
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Design leaders support people to effect positive changes in all kinds of communities be it a company, a civic organization, a team, a neighborhood or a population.
design leadership + design thinking
is a way of being in the world.
Design leadership is about bringing people together to question the status quo.
+
Design leadership is about guiding a process to improve the way things happen.
+
Design leadership is about facilitating others to design their own futures.
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Design leaders support people to effect positive changes in all kinds of communities be it a company, a civic organization, a team, a neighborhood or a population.
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In describing a new breed of designers as 'metadesigners' Richard Farson writes, "Metadesigners stand at the threshold of leadership, capable of achieving a new level of influence on the nature of design and on the society it affects. They appropriately belong in high councils of corporations and government, making policy-level contributions. As our global crises mount, metadesigners may be among our most valuable leaders."
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Harold Nelson, President of Advanced Design Institute states, “Design is a process of creative thinking and innovative action. Leadership based on systems thinking and design action is thus about how people are caused to stand together through an intentional process of creativity and innovation.”