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Hello! Just wanted to quickly say that Fuse will no longer take part in Coventry Design Festival as mentioned before and wanted to give full transparency towards the reasons why as it’s incredibly important.
When we had spoken of our involvement, the founder of Coventry...
When we had spoken of our involvement, the founder of Coventry...
Design Festival had mentioned to us ‘diversity’ and the importance of it within planning the festival. However, every speaker already announced and partnered alongside their Right Aligned series other than ourselves, is white and a majority male. In an industry where barriers...
affect underrepresented communities of creatives, to have no representation of POC creatives is frankly disappointing and represents the problems of the industry. If we cannot see ourselves in positions like speaking at festivals and events, then how can we become that?
We reached out to CDF and their response was disappointing, asking what their thoughts were of the line-up, their plan to make their festival diverse and the role of Fuse - however, we did not get a positive response, stating that they don’t need to feel to justify the...
progress being made. It’s disappointing to see and we won’t be apart of the festival anymore.
