Design Agenda was established in 1994 to raise the level of debate around design. Issues that stimulate our thinking include:

Intellectual independence for designers

From Green Design to the Dome, design always ends up working on the livery of someone else’s bandwagon. We do the graft, but leave the agenda setting and analysis to the commentators. Why leave the theory and the big picture to the suits?

Intellectual independence for designers must be the star which guides us. This demands a critical attitude toward today’s institutions, literature and conventional wisdom.