One of the Design Policy summit’s immediate action steps was to propose a holistic design award encompassing all the design disciples — and it’s a great place to start. We’ve seen what decades of piecemeal planning and stopgap measures have done to vital parts of our country, from infrastructure to environmental policy. Designers as a group have a greater affinity toward interdisciplinary collaboration, and accordingly, could help push for a more participatory process in decision-making. The current sort of ivory-tower-ish obliviousness to what the guy down the hall is doing has got to change. De-silo-izing departments and disciplines can, I believe, result in more comprehensive policy making decisions.