The Designers Accord is a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders working together to create positive environmental and social impact.
Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to integrate sustainability into design. The Designers Accord provides a participatory platform with online and offline manifestations so that members have access to a community of peers who share methodologies, resources, and experiences around environmental and social issues in design.

Focus

Our focus is on creating positive impact in the creative community by connecting a broad network throughout the creative community, inspiring and motivating our members to share best practices, bold ideas, and compelling case studies, and enabling new initiatives to grow from the foundation built by the Designers Accord.

Goals

The Designers Accord is a five year project that started in June 2007. Our aim is to make sustainability a mainstream idea in all aspects of design practice and production in this project timeline by empowering the global creative community in the following ways:
    Goal 1: Increase awareness in the creative community   
    Engage all members of the creative community in a dialogue about the importance of integrating the principles of sustainability in all practice and production. Connect and empower those applying principles of sustainability in their companies and organizations through a rich on and offline support network.  
     Goal 2: Evolve design education and support professional development 
    Graduate the next generation of design thinkers and leaders by providing a toolkit for bringing sustainability to all aspects of undergraduate and graduate design programs so that the next generation of designers is able to practice sustainably. 
    Support professional development by transforming the anecdotal success stories of design and sustainability into codified and distributed best practices.  
     Goal 3: Influence policy through design thinking 
    Bring the power of systems thinking to policy discussion. Increasing relevance of design thinking in higher order strategic challenges.
     
    To learn more, please visit http://www.designersaccord.org