The Imagining Recovery brief takes the form of a living document which has been collectively produced in conversation by designers and students of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), a network of prestigious policy schools around the world. A summary of this conversation comprises the brief.
Designers have been offered ten days, starting Day 45 March 5, to communicate directly with the students of the GPPN to unpack current and forthcoming policy documents as related to design. This Policy Forum has been hosted by The Morningside Post in the form of a liveBlog, a continuous conversation stream monitored daily by ten student administrators from the GPPN, where a number of specific polls and questions have been extracted from the conversation for focused discussion.
During this period, the Imagining Recovery website also hosted a policy question-and-answer, which allowed designers to ask specific definitional questions of GPPN policy students. Both of these channels have been offered to facilitate communication between designers and future policy makers in order to find a common language for future collaboration. To see the questions and answers, please click here.
On Day 55, March 15, the Policy Forum closed, and shortly thereafter the administrators released a summary of the conversation to serve as the competition brief, a collective mandate produced in conversation between designers and policy makers.
To view/download the competition brief as a pdf, click here.