Pillar 3

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Overview Leading and demonstrating sustainability

Pillar 3 focuses on sharing craft and design’s intrinsic role in delivering the sustainability agenda across the public and private sectors

Pillar purpose

Demonstrate the clear role for the craft and design sectors across the green and rural development agendas for the public and private sectors; while also focusing on improving the financial sustainability for craft and design enterprises across Ireland.

Build momentum at policy level on the wider impacts that craft and design thinking can have on the circular economy, and across environmental, social and economic sustainability in Ireland.

Relevance to vision, mission and values

A broad application of sustainability is key to delivering the Council’s vision, as aligned with the mission to promote Ireland’s designers and makers on national and international platforms – marketing the sustainability of Ireland’s outputs while growing and evidencing their commercial impact.

Top-level objectives

• Advocate for design thinking as a key element for solving sustainability issues in the public and private sectors • Market craft skills to consumers as sustainable practices and craft output as an example of circular economy, quality, and buying local - to boost commercial demand • Help members and clients adopt innovative sustainable practices such as carbon footprinting and origin assurance, as well as zero waste policies and best practice in green marketing

Basketmaker Joe Hogan at work, using willow he grows at his home in Loch Na Fooey, Co. Galway.