“For too long creativity has been the missing ingredient in the urgent conversations about the future of our planet.”
Thomas Heatherwick Designer and Founder of Heatherwick Studio
“London has always been a thriving hub for world-leading design and I’m delighted that we have been awarded the honour of hosting the World Design Congress 2025.”
Sadiq Khan The Mayor of London
Welcome to the 34th World Design Congress, and welcome to London!
For the first time since 1969, the World Design Congress returns to London, at the Barbican Centre, united under a vital theme: Design for Planet.
This global gathering is also a call to action. For the next two days, over 1,000 of us, across 38 sessions, with 135 speakers from 18 countries, will confront the most pressing challenge of our time: climate change and biodiversity loss, and the urgent need to design systems that sustain life on our precious planet.
Design has the power to transform how we live, work, and create. It can shape a regenerative future where human ingenuity and planetary health thrive together.
Your voice and your actions matter. Whatever your role at Congress, you are part of a global movement. Every conversation, every collaboration can weave a new narrative for design.
Let this be the moment you commit to carrying the Design for Planet mission forward, into your work, your communities, your life. The future is not out there. It begins here, with us.
Let’s remember London 2025 as a catalysing moment when we chose to take action, together.
Minnie Moll Chief Executive of the Design Council
Dr Thomas Garvey President of World Design Organization
London 2025 Theme: Design for Planet
A global mission in motion
Design has shaped the world around us. If it wasn’t created by mother nature, then someone designed it.
And we have designed some huge problems. We’ve designed in ways that are extractive, without a plan for the end of the lifecycle, and with streams of waste in our wake.
We know that 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage.
That means we are incredibly powerful, and with that comes responsibility.
It’s time to reframe design as regenerative, to drive zero emissions through bold innovation, new technology, and behaviour change, reimagine materials to transform waste into opportunity via circular and fair economies, and regenerate places to revive biodiversity, empowering communities to nurture their environments.
As delegates, this is your invitation to take what you learn back into the real world, to craft impact, and inspire others to do the same.
Across two powerful days, we will bring focus to five action-driven sub-themes:
Stories of Hope and Possibility
Real-world pioneers who are already catalysing change, demonstrating that cross-sector, global collaboration can tackle our shared planetary challenges.
Designing for Circularity
Waste is a design flaw. Reuse, repair, and repurposing must become the norm, supported by economic incentives and collaborative policies.
Designing for Net Zero
Decarbonising essential systems is urgent. We spotlight scalable, equitable design innovations, including naturepositive materials and AI-supported efficiencies.
Shaping Places for Regeneration
Through biomimicry, systems thinking, and community stewardship, we can restore ecosystems and rebuild resilient spaces.
Designing the Future Together
Turning insight into action requires skills, research, finance, policy, collaboration, and hope. Designers and thinkers unite to shape the path forward together.
A lasting legacy
Hosting the World Design Congress in the UK will be a launchpad for the Design Council’s bold mission to upskill 1 million designers in green design skills by 2030.
In 2024, the Green Design Skills Gap report showed that 71% of designers expect demand for environmental design to increase, but only 43% feel they have the skills to meet the growing demand.
We need to upskill, from the classroom to the C-Suite, so that designers have the tools and confidence to Design for Planet.
The Skills for Planet Blueprint is intentionally cross disciplinary, aimed at designers but also educators and businesses to support building essential green design skills at different levels. It is the first resource of its kind to provide a shared green design language that will make cross-sector conversations and skills building possible.
By joining Congress, you are one of the million, and you may be able to support in other ways by partnering with us.
“Our vision is that ‘green design’ becomes so interwoven into design practice that it simply becomes part of what we mean by ‘good design’.”
Cat Drew Chief Design Officer of the Design Council
Find out more about the Skills for Planet mission
Designing an event for the Planet
We are committed to making sustainability not just the subject of discussion at the World Design Congress, but a lived practice. From carbon reduction to circular thinking, here’s how we’ve tried to design the event to have a planet-positive impact, while learning what works and what doesn’t along the way.
A plant-powered menu
• All food served across both days is 100% vegetarian and vegan.
• Why? Because shifting to a plant forward menu reduces the carbon footprint of event catering by up to 70%, significantly lowering water usage and emissions.
• Sourced locally, with seasonal ingredients to reduce food miles.
Hydration without waste
• No plastic water bottles are in use across the Congress.
• Refillable water stations are located throughout the Barbican Centre.
• Delegates are encouraged to bring their own bottles or collect a reusable Congress bottle on arrival.
Carbon reduction in production
• In collaboration with our production partner Stitch, who have submitted for B Corp certification, we’ve:
» Reduced emissions across staging and build by over 30% through re-use and low-impact materials.
» Selected suppliers aligned with our Sustainable Procurement Guidelines and signed onto our Supplier Code of Conduct.
» Avoided all single-use staging and unnecessary print collateral.
Low-carbon travel & venue choices
• Our central location at the Barbican Centre encourages use of walking, cycling, and public transport.
• Where travel is necessary, we’ve nudged delegates toward economy class, direct flights, and extended stays to reduce multiple trips.
• All accommodation partners were reviewed against environmental performance and proximity to minimise travel emissions.
• The Barbican Centre is working on an ambitious Renewal project to retrofit the space for the future and is committed to achieving operational net zero by 2027.
Circular thinking
• Delegate lanyards and materials are made from recycled or reused stock.
• All installations and activations were designed with deconstruction, re-use, or donation plans in place.
• Zero-waste goals in place for catering, signage and build-down, in collaboration with Barbican waste management.
Ongoing impact measurement
• We are using tools like Event Decision and You. Smart. Thing. to measure:
» Travel-based emissions
» Behaviour shifts pre- and post-Congress
» Carbon savings from digital attendance and conscious delegate decisions
Over 200 international organisations committed to design-driven innovation
As stewards of the World Design Congress since 1959, World Design Organization (WDO)® is an international non-governmental body that brings together designers, institutions, companies and cities committed to advancing design for a better world.
With more than six decades of global design leadership, WDO provides a unique platform for its members to connect across disciplines, exchange knowledge and collaborate on initiatives that showcase the transformative power of industrial design. Bridging industry and academia, government and community, and public and private sectors, WDO’s membership pillars represent a diverse and growing ecosystem of design stakeholders, including:
• Cities and municipalities leveraging design for urban development and policy
• Corporations and private companies embedding design innovation into global strategies, products and services
• Educational institutions cultivating the next generation of design researchers and leaders
• Design studios and consultancies delivering creative design solutions and expertise
• Professional associations representing designers at local, regional and national levels
• Promotional organisations advancing design through advocacy, information and outreach
Why join WDO?
Connect with a growing design network
WDO membership opens the door to the only cross-sector community of 200+ design organisations from more than 40 countries.
Gain international visibility and recognition
Elevate your organisation’s profile across new audiences. Receive dedicated promotion for your events, news and projects via WDO’s communications platforms.
Shape the future of design
Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of WDO. Attend the organisation’s biennial General Assembly, vote on key strategic decisions and stand for election to the WDO Board of Directors.
Access exclusive WDO programmes and events
From flagship gatherings like the World Design Congress to more regional programming, enjoy complimentary access and priority invitations to WDO’s global initiatives.
Contribute to a global movement
Invest in a collective mission to harness design as a driver for change. Draw from shared knowledge, exchange best practices and form strategic partnerships with other design leaders.
Interested in joining WDO’s global community?
Visit wdo.org/join to learn more and get started on your membership journey today.
The Design Council
The Design Council is the UK’s national champion for design, an independent non-profit established by Royal Charter. For 80 years it has led the way in showing how design can transform society, drive innovation, shape places, fuel economic growth, and improve everyday life. This legacy is captured in the new book, Eight Decades of British Design: Design Council 1944 to Present, which celebrates the organisation’s enduring impact on the UK’s culture, economy, and design landscape.
Today, the Design Council is building on that legacy with its most urgent mission yet: Design for Planet. Launched in 2021, this movement mobilises the UK’s 1.97 million-strong design workforce to lead the green transition and confront the climate crisis. Sustainability alone will not be enough, we must move towards regenerative design that restores, renews, and rebalances our relationship with the planet’s finite resources.
Design has always been a force for progress; now it must be a force for survival. Systemic, transformative, and future-shaping, the Design Council puts design at the heart of the radical change we need, ensuring the future of British design is defined by regeneration, resilience, and hope.
Partner with us
We invite organisations to collaborate with us to harness the power of design for people and the planet.
By partnering with us in a philanthropic or partnership capacity, you can help unlock the potential of design to shape a better, more sustainable future. To find out more about how to work with us, we encourage you to connect directly with the Design Council to discuss potential collaborations.
Together, we can shape a regenerative future.
Find out more
Pick up your copy of Eight Decades of British Design: Design Council 1944 to Today from the Congress Material Matters Book Store.
Designing a future that matters
Where innovation meets responsibility.
At Kearney, we believe design is not decoration. It’s a strategic force that shapes systems, industries, and behaviors. Done well, it makes growth resilient and responsible. It’s not about short-term wins, but solutions that are scalable, sustainable, and deeply human.
Re:Design Tomorrow
As Mission Partner of the World Design Congress 2025, we are proud to launch Re:Design Tomorrow, our campaign to show how design can move businesses and societies from ideas to action.
For us, this isn’t about celebrating novelty. It’s about spotlighting regenerative design and making choices that are:
• Creative: unlocking new possibilities
• Conscious: rooted in responsibility
• Courageous: making the choices that matter, even when they’re hard
Kearney @ World Design Congress 2025
Where to find us beyond the stage
At the World Design Congress, we will explore the debates that matter most for designing a better future:
• Scaling sustainability: how can sustainable companies grow without losing their soul?
• From pledges to policy: what systems are needed to turn ambition into reality?
• Responsible AI: can technology accelerate solutions rather than amplify risks?
These aren’t abstract debates. They’re choices that leaders must make now.
We will convene entrepreneurs, policymakers, and corporate leaders to explore these themes. From scaling sustainable innovation to unlocking systemic collaboration to designing responsibly with emerging technologies, our contribution is shaped by practice as well as theory.
Our contribution is not limited to the sessions. At the activation stand, we have designed a participatory space that sparks conversation and creativity. Through interactive provocations and dialogue with our design team, delegates will be able to explore the themes of Re:Design Tomorrow in practice.
On 9 September, we’ll also host Future of Product at the Barbican Centre. This gathering will bring together leaders from Airbus, Bosch, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and GE Appliances. The agenda: how boards can drive innovation with intent; how to strike the right balance between product, planet, and profit; and how to design with AI in ways that customers love and societies need. We invite you to join us.
Our belief
Design should never be reduced to aesthetics. It’s about reimagining systems, shaping industries, and inspiring leaders to take responsibility for the future.
For us, designing growth that matters isn’t a slogan. It’s a responsibility.
Together, we can Re:Design Tomorrow.
Designing the Future: AHRC’s commitment to Design research
In a world defined by rapid technology change, complex global challenges and the urgent need to create a sustainable future, the value of design has never been clearer. Design enables us to reimagine the systems we live within and shape a future that is more sustainable, equitable and imaginative. It’s also an area where the UK can be said to be truly world-leading. Design is one of the jewels in the crown of the UK’s globally-renowned creative industries and a key driving force for change and innovation within the sector.
This is why the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is committed to investing in excellent design research across the country and around the theme of net zero.
This ambition also underlines our support for the Design Council and this year’s World Design Congress in London.
The Design Council’s leadership in innovation and policy helps extend the reach and relevance of the research we fund. From the pledge to upskill one million designers for the green transition to informing how we can create better, more sustainable products and places and capturing the discipline’s economic and social value, the Design Council are leading the way in outlining how critical design is to the UK’s future.
As you’ll see throughout the programme at the World Design Congress, the research we fund has a vital role in harnessing the transformative power of design to address some of society’s most pressing challenges.
AHRC has long championed the value of design research. In recent years, we’ve significantly increased our investment in design research, most notably through strategic investments like the Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition programme. This flagship partnership with the Design Museum supports growth and the UK’s transition to net zero through the scaling up of design interventions and engaging diverse public audiences with the power of design. Importantly, this research does not exist in isolation—it actively informs policy, education, and practice across the UK and beyond.
This is emphasised by the Green Transition Ecosystems, funded as part of the Future Observatory programme. These are large-scale projects that focus on translating the best design-led research into real-world application across a range of sectors, including healthcare, circular economy, housing and planning.
These investments reflect our conviction that design must be embedded in the UK’s response to major transitions, especially the urgent need to reach net zero.
World Design Congress is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the impact of UK-based design research on the global stage— highlighting how AHRC-supported research is shaping the conversations and solutions of tomorrow inside UKRI and across our planet.
Professor Christopher Smith Executive Chair of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, and UKRI Creative Industries Champion
Green Transition Ecosystems
Impacts delivered by these projects so far have included:
• Design Hopes, which is represented by co-director
Professor Paul Rodgers at World Design Congress, is creating reusable headwear made from a sustainable, plant-based material for hospital staff that is helping to reduce waste in the NHS while also improving patients’ experience.
• Future Island-Island has been working with coastal communities in Northern Ireland to recycle and reuse waste material collected during beach cleans, and use 3D printing to print and repair equipment, showcasing how these approaches can be used to improve environmental sustainability and reduce costs for communities and small businesses.
• Public Map Platform will soon launch their interactive mapping tool which could transform the UK planning system by allowing communities to help shape how developments are brought forward for their areas. The new tool uses economic, cultural, social and environmental data provided by communities, which could ensure a more evidence-based, digital approach to planning.
• The Transforming Housing and Homes project is working with partners in Swansea and Bristol to explore how adaptations to 1.4 million councilbuilt houses across the UK could cut energy bills, reduce carbon emissions and improve the health and wellbeing of their occupants.
Designing innovation for a better future
Why design matters more than ever
Design isn’t just about how things look, it’s about how they work, and why they matter. It allows us to imagine better futures, grounded in real-world needs while also acknowledging complexity. It’s not only about meeting the stated needs of users, but uncovering the deeper, often hidden requirements of the communities, environments and industries they inhabit.
Designers ensure not only that things are done right, but that the right things are done.
Innovation isn’t risk-free but it is worth it
Innovation is the engine of industrial growth. It’s how we respond to climate change, resource scarcity and social inequality. And it’s risky. Between 70% and 90% of innovation projects fail to meet their commercial goals. Even in large organisations, most underperform or are abandoned.
So why is investment in innovation so worthwhile?
Because the value of innovation often lies beyond the original idea. It lies in building intellectual property, skills, and trusted partnerships. It creates capacity. And it teaches us to learn from failure (something designers and design users excel at).
And design builds resilience
Learning from success is easy. Learning from failure takes design. It reveals what really matters. It uncovers latent needs across health, community and planet (to list just a few). It connects the dots in systems where users don’t exist in isolation.
A Systems approach to scaling innovation
At Innovate UK, we take a systems approach (through Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK Business Growth and the Innovate UK Catapult Network) to support high-potential businesses. We help them to grow and scale responsibly.
We work across sectors, connecting designers with innovators. We fund, support and build networks. This gives us a unique view of how ideas interact with broader systems and how design can unlock their full potential.
Designing the UK’s industrial future
The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy depends on innovation and if that innovation is to succeed responsibly and sustainably, we need designers at the heart of it.
The UK boasts world-class design talent, and this Congress is proof.
Harry Kerr Head of Design, Innovate UK Business Connect
If you’re a designer looking for meaningful, high-impact work, join us. Learn new skills, build new collaborations, and help us tackle the really tricky stuff. You want to get involved?
Learn more about Innovate UK Design in Innovation Join the Design in Innovation Network
Marrying innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of a new generation.
Activations
In our Welcome & Partnerships space you’re invited to explore installations from Zaha Hadid Architects and Kearney and maybe take some downtime in our relaxation spaces from Nook x Smile Plastics.
Upstairs in our Learning & Development environment you can browse through our exclusive Material Matters bookshop and peruse various activations including our book celebrating the 80 year history of the Design Council.
Smile Plastics x Nook
At this year’s World Design Congress, Nook Pods offer more than just a place to sit - they’re sensory-tuned sanctuaries designed for calm, connection, and neuroinclusive thinking. Set within the energy at the heart of the event, they provide quieter moments to reflect, recharge, or engage in focused conversation. Techenabled and thoughtfully designed, they’re also practical spaces to plug in, take a call, or simply pause.
In collaboration with Smile Plastics, each pod features internal and external finishes from the Earth and Heron collections - created from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic that would otherwise be destined for landfill. Inspired by the natural beauty of Wales, where Smile Plastics is head-quartered, and the flowing forms of the coast, these materials bring warmth, tactility, and a sense of calm to the event attendee experience. Like the Nook itself, Smile Plastics champions responsible design that puts people and planet first - prioritising closed-loop solutions, local impact, and beauty with purpose. And the story doesn’t end here: after the World Design Congress, the pods will be placed in locations that promote wellbeing and community, continuing their life as spaces for good.
Book your Nook in the Congress app.
Kearney Future of Products
The product experience universe: where design connects to the world. Step inside the Kearney activation space, where design is not an object but an experience. Here, ideas turn into outcomes and every product tells a story of people, purpose, and planet. See the making, not just the made. From robotics to pencils, visitors will uncover the sketches, strategies, materials, and methods that turn ideas into experiences. Interactive touchscreens reveal the hidden layers of sustainability, AI, and design thinking that shape tomorrow’s products.
Three provocations frame the experience:
• Elevate design. Human-centered design creates loyalty but also carries responsibility.
• Embrace AI. Used with intent, AI amplifies creativity and empathy.
• Drive net-positive impact. Sustainability must move beyond “less harm” to deliver regenerative value.
The questions every leader should ask:
• What turns an idea into an experience?
• Where does intention end and impact begin?
• How can design deliver better outcomes for both people and planet?
This is not a display. It is a stage. A place to learn, reflect, and debate the future of design, where creativity, AI, and sustainability converge.
Dr Jane Goodall’s Opening Address
We are honoured to open the World Design Congress with a special message from Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace. In her brief address, Dr Goodall speaks directly to the designers, businesses, and changemakers gathered here, reminding us of our responsibility to the planet and the power we each hold to shape a regenerative future. Her message, full of urgency and hope, invites us to look to nature as our greatest designer, and to place care, courage and connection at the heart of what we create.
Zaha Hadid Architects
Dive into the Zaha Hadid Architects exhibition presenting the firm’s recent research and innovations in enhancing the environmental sustainability of architecture across multiple types of projects and scales. The showcase of projects includes an architectural model and large-scale prototype of the timber structure of the Forest Green Rovers Eco Park Stadium, a 3D printed concrete block from the Striatus Bridge, and 1:1 samples of the Gencork Feature wall. Hear how the firm reframes the critical role of sustainability in architecture not as a technical constraint, but instead as a driving force shaping the built environment and guiding the societal progress of future generations through the large scale digital LED wall and interactive screen.
We Are The Voice
We Are The Voice, the award-winning children’s environmental choir, open the World Design Congress with a spine-tingling performance of original eco-anthems. Fusing soaring harmonies and urgent rhythms, these remarkable young voices will set the tone of Congress inspiring hope, creativity and courage.
We Are The Voice is an award-winning children’s environmental choir based in Surrey. Formed in 2019 in response to rising eco-anxiety among young people, the choir offers a hopeful and creative outlet for children to express their care for the planet through song.
Comprising 20 children aged 6 to 16, the group performs powerful original music exploring themes such as climate justice, biodiversity, deforestation, and plastic pollution. Their anthemic songs blend soaring harmonies, evocative lyrics, and stirring rhythms to inspire environmental action, spark intergenerational conversations, and win hearts.
Design Declares
The climate crisis is here, and it’s up to all of us to act. The Design Declares Climate Action Cards were created to help you do just that. They were developed in collaboration with experts across all design disciplines to help you shift your practice, business, and mindset.
You each received one of these cards when you picked up your pass. Each card offers a planet-positive lesson, advice, or a step you can take right away. Think of it as a small guide for your own work, a tool for teaching others, or an inspiration for your team.
This single card is a small part of a larger set of 52, with one action for each week of the coming year. We call on you to act. Act knowing that, by this time next year, you will have taken a meaningful leap forwards in aligning your activities to better accommodate and address the needs of our planet. Act now because there is no time to lose, and act together because there is greater power in collective action.
Who are Design Declares?
Design Declares is a growing group of designers, design studios, agencies and institutions committed to harnessing the tools of our industry to reimagine, rebuild and heal our world in the face of the climate crisis.
ANTI-RUIN by OZRUH Studio
London-based studio OZRUH, led by Levent Ozruh, presents Phase 2 of its groundbreaking ANTI-RUIN project that was unveiled at World Design Congress. Explore this innovative structure that challenges traditional architecture by embracing entropy and decay rather than fighting it. Crafted from marble dust, the design uses a unique geopolymer binder jetting technique, a collaboration with ETH Zurich, to create modular blocks that can grow, split, and recombine.
More than just a static object, ANTI-RUIN operates as an open-ended, adaptive system. It proposes a regenerative material economy by turning stone and demolition dust into new spatial systems. A twenty-minute documentary accompanying the installation, filmed at the Lasa Marmo Quarry and ETH Zurich, reveals the project’s evolution, highlighting its material experiments and the philosophical idea of creating an architecture that is materially grounded and radically adaptive to time. The project re-imagines how ancient materials can shape the future, demonstrating that architecture can strengthen through recomposition.
The World Design Congress London 2025 has been made possible thanks to an invaluable group of organisations and partners.
Event Credits
Executive Producer
Alex McCorkindale
Senior Event Manager
Matthew Burgess
The programme has been curated by Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer of the Design Council, Ve Dewey, Strategic Designer, Researcher, and Design Council Expert, and Minnie Moll, Chief Executive of the Design Council.
Its development was enriched by the insights of a cross-sector steering group, featuring representatives from AHRC, Innovate UK, PDR, Material Matters, Kukk, Simon Hamilton Creative, London Design Biennale, London Design Festival, Morrama, the Design Museum, the Royal College of Art.
The education and research content of the programme was co-developed with guidance from academic and research partners, including AHRC, the Royal College of Art, University for the Creative Arts, and University of Westminster.
With thanks to the World Design Organization (WDO)® and its team: Andréa Springer, Acting Managing Director; Dorothée Bolade, Community Engagement Officer; Natalie Dutil, Communications Manager; Eric Lauwers, Programmes Manager; Tu Tram Pham, Digital Communications Officer; Sarah Virgini, Programmes and Communications Officer; Rose Wu, Accounts Administrator.
The World Design Congress 2025 public call for papers and posters was managed by World Design Organization (WDO)®, who collaborated with an international review panel to evaluate hundreds of global submissions at the forefront of design for planet research.
From the accepted papers, select authors were integrated across the two-day programme, and posters from more than 11 countries will be on display at the Barbican Centre.
Event and Marketing Coordinator
Fiona Dahl
Senior Digital Content Manager
Harriet Packer
Following the World Design Congress, a proceedings document will be published outlining this key research at the intersection of regenerative design, circular frameworks and climate policy.
Chaired by Professor Anastasios Maragiannis, Pro Vice-
Chancellor for Creative Education at the University for the Creative Arts in London, 12 distinguished experts from across academia and industry comprised the World Design Congress 2025 Review Panel:
Anna Barbara, POLI.design (Italy)
Federico Del Giorgio Solfa, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
Alessandra Fasoli, Kingston University (UK)
Jarred Evans, PDR International Centre for Design and Research (UK)
Luke Gooding, Stockholm Environment Institute (UK)
Edward Houghton, DG Cities (UK)
Youbin Kim, Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
Carolina Perez Leon, University of Greenwich (UK)
Xue Pei, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Dimitris Skourogiannis, The PERIPLUS project (UK)
Shreya Thakkar, ElectroLux Group (USA)
Gillian Youngs PhD, University of Greenwich (UK)
Head of Marketing and Communications
Laura Casali
Senior Marketing Manager
Helen Topham
Design Council Team at the time of the World Design Congress 2025:
Ishbel Allotey, Maariyah Amejee, Rachel Bronstein, Matthew Burgess, Rebecca Busch, Laura Casali, Hilary Cuddy, Fiona Dahl, Kim Davids, Cat Drew, Irene Hakansson, Shamir Hale, Edward Hobson, Rob Holmes, Rachel Hutchison, Jessie Johnson, Rory McAfee, Alex McCorkindale, Minnie Moll, Flora Newbigin, Feyidara Olawuyi, Harriet Packer, Polly Raymond, Bronwen Rees, Anna Roberts, Josephine Ryan Gill, Susana Soares, Sarah Stallwood-Hall, Helen Topham, Nikki van Grimbergen, Owen Wainhouse, Frederik Weissenborn
With special thanks to:
Tyler Murphy, Krystian Jones and Mathias Berry at Stitch and Connection Crew for their incredible Production and Event Logistics.
Larraine Datta, David Bennett and Emily Lucas from OPX. Studio for their incredible design work.
Deborah Hale MBE for her partnership on the vision, ambition and planning.
And the wonderful Silvana Ambrosiou and Charlie Smith from the Barbican Centre team for all their help and support.
Finally, thanks to the partners who supported the Design Council’s bid to host Congress 2025 when it was just a twinkle in the eye: AHRC, Innovate UK, Creative Industries Council, DBA, The Design Museum, London Design Festival, PDR, Greenwich University, Royal College of Art, Greater London Authority and DCMS.
Front cover artwork in creative partnership with Liberty.
If you’re not Designing for Planet, what planet are you on?
Kate Raworth Economist and author of Doughnut Economics
