Bartlett staff named as Design Council expert network Ambassadors

I look forward to continuing my work with the Design Council as an Ambassador in their new expert network. In this role, I aim to challenge existing understandings of designing healthy places, raising awareness of the fundamental need for approaches that are equitable, inclusive and sustainable. It is commendable that the Design Council are refreshing their expert network to increase diversity, which will support the changes we need in the sector to create healthy and sustainable places.

My role as a Design Council Ambassador reflects and reinforces my aims as chair of the Bartlett Real Estate Institute where we are encouraging and enabling the property industry to think beyond the design of buildings to the design and integration of wider neighbourhoods and communities, and to designing economic and business models and methods of co-creation; considering wider environmental and social sustainability as well as economic issues. I look forward to bringing a wider circle of participants to this sort of design forum.

By bringing together increasingly diverse experts, social and business innovation, service and systemic design, this community of practice is in a strong position to respond positively and even more effectively to some of society’s most pressing challenges,” she continued.