Dott Projects
| Eco Design Challenge | |
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| Education lies at the heart of Dott 07. After all, when it comes to sustainability and design, all of us - young and old - need to learn new skills. Dott’s objective is to equip the next generation with the insight and skills required to achieve one planet living. Eco Design Challenge asked Year 8 students across North East England two questions: ‘How big is your school’s ecological footprint?’ and ‘What design steps would make it smaller?’ We monitored their progress over the year, and you can read about how they fared in the Schools section. |
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| New Work | |
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| The New Work project was about practical design steps to improve the day-to-day experience of people who are self-employed or have a micro-business. Many people who work from home complain that they often feel isolated, and would like to exchange skills and services with each other on a local basis. Many designers are already involved in the creation of hardware for work: desks, lights, chairs and so on. But with numbers of self-employed people set to rocket nationwide, our next challenge is to redesign the how, where and when of work. With this in mind, New Work asked the question ‘How do you design your life?’ |
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