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The Designers Accord is a coalition of designers, educators, researchers, engineers, business consultants, and corporations, who are working together to create positive environmental and social impact.
Any designer, consultancy, or organization creating consequence at scale should join.
Vision
The Designers Accord envisions a creative community where the principles of sustainable design are seamlessly integrated into all practice and production.
Mission
Our mission is to catalyze innovation throughout the creative community by collectively building our intelligence around sustainability. For this cause, we advocate inverting the traditional model of competition, and encourage pooling knowledge so that all may benefit and build on marketable and sustainable solutions. We believe this will create positive social and environmental impact.
We will accelerate adoption of sustainability principles in the creative community by:
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* providing a productive public and private way for designers to take action
* asking all adopters to engage in the conversation about social and environmental impact with every client and customer, and integrate sustainable alternatives in their work
* creating a global community of peers who openly share passion and ideas around environmental and social innovation
* building a knowledge-sharing network to share best practices, design methods, resources, and tools through a web platform
* educating ourselves and the public about the environmental and social impact of consumption
Organizational Structure
The Designers Accord is a not-for-profit, 501(C)(3) tax-exempt organization, which is directed by a seven member Advisory Board.
The Designers Accord comprises over one hundred thousand members of the creative community, representing almost one hundred countries and each design discipline.
AIGA, Cumulus, and the IDSA endorse the Designers Accord.