U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Call to Action: Endorse Redesigning America's Future

The U.S. National Design Policy Initiative needs your support in demonstrating to Congress and the incoming Obama-Biden Administration the People's support of the policy brief, Redesigning America's Future: ten design policy proposals for the U.S.'s economic competitiveness and democratic governance.

One:
We need for you to write a brief endorsement of the Initiative and the policy proposals in the Endorsement section of the site.

Two:
We need for you to write your National Congresspersons directly. Find them here. They will be receiving, Redesigning America's Future, in their mail boxes by January 20, 2009. They will only read and act upon it if you tell them to do so.

Welcome to the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Design is the world remade in human form.

The U.S. National Design Policy Initiative advocates for a governmental plan of action to support design in service of U.S. economic competitiveness and democratic governance.

The U.S. design communities seek to enable through a U.S. national design policy:

• design promotion to boost the demand for American goods and services,
• innovation policy to protect American intellectual property and support the People’s entrepreneurial spirit,
• design standards to guarantee inclusion, sustainability, safety, and quality in the experiences of the human remade world; and
• policy as designed to address design’s role in making American democratic values tangible to the People.

In a letter supporting the opening of the Fourth Federal Design Assembly in 1978, President Carter wrote:

Good design can help us meet our commitment to improve the efficiency of government…and reaffirm our concern for the human side of government.

Design policy enables good design.