London studio Pearson Lloyd and Britain's Design Council are among the founding signatories of Design Declares, a new campaign launched at London Design Festival to help UK designers tackle their environmental footprint.
Following on from adjacent industry campaigns such as Architects Declare, the initiative encourages studios from across the fields of digital, industrial, communication and service design to come together to declare a climate emergency.
The eight founding signatories have also committed themselves to start measuring their own footprint and engage clients in discussions around climate change, using eight "acts of emergency" as a starting point.
Design Declares was launched during London Design Festival
By the beginning of November, the organisers ? led by product design studio Morrama and environmental collective URGE ? hope to build a community of 1,000 signatories from across the UK, who the organisers described as "fed up with a lack of industry momentum and ready to act on the most defining issue of our times". "As designers working within an industry driven by consumption and reliant on production, we have to acknowledge that we have a role to play in changing this system," said Morrama's founder Jo Barnard.
"This is the most important brief of our lives."
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