Brexit design summit: the UK's creative industries should come together to produce a manifesto explaining the benefits they bring the whole country, designers have suggested.
The industry should set out why it is important to the UK both culturally and economically, leading figures said, and present a vision for how it can thrive when the UK leaves the EU.
It can then use this to lobby the government to ensure its needs are represented in negotiations with the EU.
The calls came during Dezeen's Brexit design summit last week, and in subsequent emails from architects, designers and other influential figures who took part.
Design journalist Max Fraser co-hosted the Brexit design summit with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs
"What we have to do is present a story which is positive, without doom and gloom, that's telling a story about the design industry, what its values are, how important it is, how many people it employs," said design journalist Bethan Ryder. "We need to connect it to the rest of the country, and not just London," said Ryder, adding that bodies such as the Design Council, the Creative Industries Federation and the RIBA should work together.
"We need to send out a message showing what [design] can do for the rest of the UK."
"The creative industries don't really have one single voice, and this is what we need more than anything," agreed industrial designer Paul Priestman.
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