Upskilling One Million Designers with Green Design
The Design Council has launched its Skills for Planet Blueprint, a bold roadmap defining the critical green skills designers need to embed sustainability into practice. This framework aims to create a shared language that enables meaningful cross-sector collaboration and accelerates the integration of sustainability into design.
We at Pd-m are proud to be featured as a case study in Skills for Planet, alongside other forward-thinking leaders across education and industry, as part of the Green Design Skills 2030 programme.
The research driving this initiative highlights the urgency of closing the green design skills gap:
66% of UK designers designed for planet during 2024.
Only 43% feel equipped with the skills to meet demand for environmental design.
71% believe demand will grow further.
Design shapes the world we live in—and today, it shapes the future we need. Together with the Design Council, we are working to equip designers with the green skills essential to building a regenerative, resilient, and inclusive future. The shared ambition is for ‘green design’ to become inseparable from ‘good design’.
Bronwen Rees, Programme and Community Manager at Design Council, said:
“Design Council were really pleased to be able to demonstrate the skills within our ‘Influencing Behaviours’ skill area using the wonderful work that Pd-m are doing. Pd-m's approach is a leading example of how design businesses can be using data-informed design processes to create considerable carbon reductions in product development, and how using storytelling to promote this can influence others to do the same.”
We’re honoured to feature in the Blueprint alongside gomi, Bioregional, and Faith in Nature—organisations demonstrating that sustainable design is not only possible but essential.
Read more about the Skills for Planet Blueprint here: https://lnkd.in/ebQuBg_N