Programmes and research @designcouncil
Otherwise sharing about design, the power of community, and the way of Jesus. Interested in how all of these overlap.
Congratulations to the @TfL Occupational Health team, who have won the @SOMNews award 🎉 for their design-led initiative committed to the holistic well-being of their employees in the workplace, supported by the Design Council and @ImpUrbanHealth.
@GSTTnhs#DesignWellbeing
Want to work on the future of #DesignEconomy? We wish to invite proposals from a UK-based academic/non-academic research partner to research the sociocultural, democratic, environmental & financial-economic value of design.
More Info: https://t.co/O40AE7GaZ0
#InvitationToTender
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
https://t.co/L9qdJ22ngc
Anyone else constantly oscillate between complete conviction that they can and should make a dent in the world, but also the realization that we are but a speck of dust in the universe
Finding: Loneliness kills.
Humans are social creatures. We thrive through connection to those around us.
Study participants who felt isolated were observably less happy and experienced notably earlier declines in health than those who felt connected.
I’m definitely interested more ideas that can stick for lifetime of development + transformation, over 1 off workshops where everyone is excited + then no one wants to interact with the work it’ll take to do any of it. Most of our field is just describing we hope others will do.
"Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build... live the life that only you can live."
@naval
We are delighted to bring you the latest findings from #DesignEconomy.
Discover the significant economic value of the UK's design sector and it's growing workforce as well as regional areas of design excellence and the challenges facing the industry: https://t.co/SN40pvhwNs
“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble…”
Former US Congressman John Lewis, long time civil rights and grassroots icon