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Last year the Design Council launched its Skills for Planet Mission: to upskill 1 million designers with green design skills by 2030. Given that students are the designers of tomorrow, as HE agenda setters we have a key role to play in providing them with the critical green skills they need to design responsibly.
These skills are outlined in the Skills for Planet Blueprint. Whether you have started on your journey to embed green design skills into your curricula or not, the Blueprint is a resource that can help you get started or validate your existing work. We are asking all CHEAD members to commit to embedding the Skills for Planet Blueprint Learning Outcomes, so that HE can upskill thousands of designers, in support of the Skills for Planet Mission.
To help us get started, we have worked with the Design Council and a small group of CHEAD members to translate the Blueprint into a set of Learning Outcomes. We have also developed a set of criteria to help explain what we mean by 'embedding the Blueprint', and what this might look like in practice.
Please fill in this short survey by 20th August to pledge your commitment to the Skills for Planet Mission, or to let us know when you will be able to do so if you can't right now. Universities who are able to pledge now, will be named as early adopters in time for the World Design Congress, which Design Council are hosting this September.
This message is sent on behalf of Sandra Booth, Director of Policy and External Relations CHEAD, and Rachel Bronstein, Senior Skills Manager Design Council
