Design in Action

知识交换中心行动设计（KEH DIA）是一个全国性的组织网络（学术界和工业界），致力于通过知识交换的精神，提供一个多部门参与的工作模式，满足面向未来用户需求的产品、流程和服务的要求。它将通过以设计为主导的创新来建立经济能力，以确保苏格兰能够最大限度地提高其有效运作的能力，并满足为未来世界市场建立新经济的要求。KEH DIA的目标是：在食品、体育、信息通信技术、农村经济和福利发展创新的知识交流模式为苏格兰发展建立在现有公共支持机制基础上的合作伙伴关系模式了解国际市场的增长机会为创意经济制定软硬指标KEH DIA为现有的以项目为基础和需求为主导的知识交流方式提供了真正的替代方案。它目前是孤立发生的，并且是在确定需要时发生的。KEH DIA是一种独特的主动知识交流模式，利用设计和设计师的战略思维能力，通过与多个利益相关者的对话来识别问题，以便为新兴问题和单一复杂问题设想多种视角/场景。战略合作伙伴的核心活动包括15个“沙坑”活动（这是促进创新的极端模式），其中至少有20个小额资助计划奖励用于开发原型，10-40个支持微型企业充分参与过程的资助，互动设计门户，虚拟孵化器和一系列40个变革审计资助。四所苏格兰艺术学院——邓肯约旦斯通艺术与设计学院、爱丁堡艺术学院、格拉斯哥艺术学院、格雷艺术学院、阿伯泰邓迪大学、圣安德鲁斯大学、创意苏格兰、文化企业、苏格兰企业、DC汤姆森和邓迪的V&A是主要合作伙伴，与另外30家公司合作。这些公司范围广泛，从独立企业到中小企业再到跨国公司，我们的合作伙伴总共承诺提供1470,563英镑的实物支持。他们被KEH DIA的参与式知识交流方式所吸引，更多的人热衷于参与中心将采取的真正的合作方式。在学术机构和各种公司之间发展强大的网络，以传播KEH DIA产生的研究和工作实践，这将是加强创意经济和在这些网络中嵌入创新设计方法的关键。KEH DIA将采取广泛的传播策略，与所有战略合作伙伴合作，在苏格兰各地为所有观众建立对设计的理解。它还将使用各种视觉手段来阐明设计作为创新策略；这些作品将在苏格兰各地的各种传统和非传统空间中进行分布和展示，以建立动力、可见性和与设计人员和过程接触的欲望。设计是一种通过合作实现有效创新的策略，并提供了一种模式，将卓越的设计置于其交付的核心，建立一种具有设计价值的包容性文化，这将使苏格兰作为设计驱动文化的形象发生感性变化。其遗产是在苏格兰的每个地区嵌入创新战略，向一系列受众展示设计的变革效应，使获得的见解成为公司战略发展工具的既定框架。

Knowledge Exchange Hub Design In Action (KEH DIA) is a national network of organisations (academia and industry,) committed to working in effective collaborations, through the ethos of knowledge exchange to deliver a working model of multi-sector participation that meets the requirements for products, processes and services designed for the demands of tomorrows users. It will build economic capability through design-led innovation to ensure that Scotland can maximise its capacity to operate effectively and meet the imperatives of building new economies for future world markets. The aims of KEH DIA are to:Engage design and mobilise entrepreneurial capacity in five key sectors of food, sport, ICT, rural economies and wellbeingDevelop a knowledge exchange model for innovationDevelop a collaborative partnership model for Scotland that builds upon existing public support mechanismsUnderstand opportunities for growth in international markets Develop hard and soft metrics for the creative economy KEH DIA offers a genuine alternative to the existing approach to knowledge exchange, which is project-based and demand-led. It currently occurs in isolation and when the need for it has been identified. The KEH DIA is a unique proactive model of knowledge exchange, harnessing the strategic thinking capabilities of design and designers to work on problem identification through dialogue with multiple stakeholders, in order to envision multiple perspectives / scenarios for emerging issues and single complex problems. The core KE activities undertaken by the strategic partners include 15 'Sandpit' events (which is an extreme model for facilitating innovation) resulting in a minimum of 20 Small Grant Scheme awards to develop prototypes, 10-40 support grants for micro-enterprises to fully engage in the process, an interactive Design Portal, Virtual Incubator and a series of 40 Change Audit Grants.The four Scottish art colleges - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Gray's School of Art, University of Abertay Dundee, University of St Andrews, Creative Scotland, Cultural Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, DC Thomson, and the V&A at Dundee are the key partners, working in conjunction with an additional 30 companies. These companies, range widely from independents to SMEs to multi-nationals and collectively our partners have pledged £1, 470, 563 in-kind support. They are drawn to the project by the KEH DIA's approach to participatory knowledge exchange with many more keen to engage with the truly collaborative approach that the Hub will take.Developing strong networks between academic institutions and various companies to disseminate the research and working practices that arise as a result of the KEH DIA will be key to strengthening the creative economy and to embedding the innovative approach of design throughout these networks. KEH DIA will adopt a wide-ranging dissemination strategy working in partnership with all of its strategic partners to build understanding of design across Scotland for all audiences. It will also use a variety of visual means to articulate design as strategy for innovation; these will be distributed and exhibited across Scotland in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces to build momentum, visibility and an appetite to engage with the people and process that are design.Design is the strategy for effective innovation through partnership and provides a model that places design excellence at the heart of its delivery, building an inclusive culture with design values, which will generate a perceptual change in the image of Scotland as a design driven culture. The legacy is to embed in each region in Scotland an innovation strategy, that demonstrates the transformational effect of design to a range of audiences, enabling insights gained to become an established framework for companies to use strategically as a tool for growth.