Frankie Roberto

The way in which we order museums tells us as much about ourselves as the things they contain. Museums, software programmes and intelligence agencies are all models of the world. Who designs and operates them, whose politics they embody, and whose stories they tell, shape the world we all inhabit. If these institutions really belong to us, they must be more than experienced; they must be understood.

We have defined design as the way we turn every aspect of HS2 into a practical reality around the needs of the people who will benefit or be affected by our service. Everything we create is designed and every design discipline is covered in our interpretation of design. To recoin a phrase – we are designing from the pixel to the city – from digital systems to urban infrastructure and so much else besides.

The one thing that I will say is that people have this view that the only innovation in the market comes from Silicon Valley. That’s not the case here. This is a world leading innovation that has come from London and has actually come from a public sector organisation. And I think we need to celebrate that a little bit more and remember that anything that Silicon Valley can do, we can do too.

Public Review Issue 30 (PRI-30) discussed the question of how to encode Bengali khanda ta. This document reviews some key issues and feedback that was received on PRI-30, which included new information that has bearing on arguments for or against different alternatives. In light of the feedback, a strong case for encoding khanda ta as a separate character is presented.