In 2009, Design Exchange established an initiative to create a formal design policy for Canada. The goal is to raise awareness among governmental agencies, business and the public regarding the power of design for addressing crucial issues.

Continuum tackles the mortgage disclosure form--and how telling the narrative of a home purchase played a decisive role in its design.

John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, talks with Mugendi M'Rithaa, Icsid Executive Board Member 2009-2011 and a professor in Africa's Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), about misconceptions about Africa, sustainability and how design can be beneficial to African life.

Co-President of the Design Institute of Australia, Andrew Whittaker, addresses the environmental impact by buying cheap products, returning them, and replacing them with the same product. Instead of replacing it with the same product, he suggests to opt for products with longer warranties to avoid future environmental pollution.

The eneloop LED lantern was conceived to offer villages in Uganda a solution to counter the use of kerosene lanterns. Sanyo offers a solution that is both cost-effective and easy to maintain for villages that are without electricity.

Vice Minister Fu Shuangjian explained that Chinese exporters needed to be more aware of tools like the Community trade mark and SAIC was actively encouraging firms to seek registration abroad and was seeking closer cooperation with OHIM to help draw up the best protection strategy.

A new intellectual property right that properly protects pre-patent concepts and propositions created by industrial designers and other professional originators would stimulate open innovation on a truly massive scale, says Maxine J Horn, CEO at British Design Innovation.

Increasingly integrated with vehicle electronics, braking and steering controls are the most significant active safety systems in today's vehicles, and they prevent injuries and property damage everywhere in the world.

Tata Elxsi, the Design arm of the Tata Group, elaborates on the importance of design and its influence in the future of Indian design on an international scale. The effort would involve overcoming from three key barriers: financial, managerial and technological.

Vitra celebrates 50 years of the creation of the Panton chair, the iconic, single-piece plastic chair by Verner Panton. Through the decades since its inception, the chair had gone through various manufacturing materials, as moulding technology became cheaper and the materials more sustainable.