The Future of Design Industry and Higher Education Collaborations: Creating a Shared Vision

DBA and CHEAD are hosting an online event on 27th November at 4pm for designers and educators to share and contribute to the interim findings from our recent regional roundtable discussions.

This is a moment to hear from colleagues with different perspectives. Together we can commit to creating real impact in university and business collaborative actions, to rejuvenate the education system, to transform and diversify the creative workforce, and to develop the talented designers our industry needs.

Through a series of roundtables, provocations and knowledge exchange,  DBA and CHEAD members are collaborating to shape a design-led education and industry skills system fit for the future. We aim to create a framework to sustain skills pipelines, embed industry needs, and future proof opportunities for students, graduates, alumni and existing designers.

Attendees will be the first to hear what industry wants from HEIs.

We are inviting you to contribute to this shared vision. The meeting will be recorded for attendees only.

Please register here.

Speaker:



Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive of the Design Business Association

As Chief Executive of the Design Business Association, Deborah works with the industry to champion the tangible and measurable impact of design and its capability for change in business and government, nationally and internationally.

Her passion for design as a strategic tool that boardrooms must recognise, and her experience of the UK’s diverse and competitive design sector enable her to lead the DBA as it works tirelessly to build universal confidence in design investment and support the design industry to deliver on this promise.