The Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC), in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Toronto, presents Beyond the Frankfurt Kitchen: A Conversation on the Impact of Design, a public panel exploring how one of the twentieth century's most influential design innovations continues to shape contemporary conversations around accessibility, sustainability, domestic life, and urban living.
The Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC), in partnership with Bulthaup Toronto, presents The Frankfurt Kitchen & Bulthaup: Images of Innovation, an exhibition celebrating one of the most influential designs of the twentieth century and its enduring impact on contemporary kitchen design.
We are pleased to share that our Board Director Tim Haats will be presenting the paper, “AI as an Accelerator of Design’s Professional Identity Transition: Implications for Leadership and Organizational Capability”, at the upcoming DMI Conference.
In 2026, the Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC) marks its 25th anniversary. Stay tuned for updates on planned initiatives and events.
The Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC), in its 24th year, continued to advance the role of design as a strategic driver of economic, social, and environmental outcomes. As an interdisciplinary research group and advisory body, DIAC convened expertise across design disciplines to demonstrate and communicate the impact and value of design to industry and communities, across sectors.
Design is a relatively small part of the budget for Public-Private Partnership (P3) infrastructure projects, but when design is used strategically the impact can be catalytic. DIAC took up an invitation from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to organize a tour and talk on the Eglinton Crosstown, as part of the Toronto Urbanism Symposium.
In October 2018, the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity invited DIAC to develop and lead a Design Immersion tour as part of the TCI Network Global Conference in Toronto. The conference focused on best practices in the management of economic clusters. It gave DIAC the opportunity to showcase, to an international audience, some vital aspects of Toronto’s design cluster. It also provided a chance to assess the assets of design in the context of local priority clusters in the Toronto Region, including advanced manufacturing, food, financial services, transportation and logistics.
