Hey everyone, the aim of the forum {and the Designer’s accord} is to unite designers (of all disciplines) through sharing of resources, methodologies, experiences about not just environmental— but also social issues in our industry.
A DA specific forum enables us to have this discussion about the conflicting views about what “sustainable” and “environmental” actually mean and how these meanings have changed and continue to change while also thinking of the larger social role of the designer. What do we feel our personal role is in regards to “sustainability” within our field? How to we share resources openly? How do we learn from each others mistakes? How do we unite our personal “sustainability” goals with also considering the social issues we care about? How do we unite what industrial designers know with what the graphic designers have learned?
The Designers Accord asks all its members (as part of joining) to engage in these conversations with their clients as well as hopefully with themselves and their peers in an organized way. Obviously joining an organization like the DA isn’t the only way to achieve these things, but its aims is to foster this type of supportive community as a way to facilitate these visions.