Co-designing ways to improve how we live, work and play: Dott Cornwall

A Dott Cornwall and Design Week publication on new thinking at the intersection of change

Dott Cornwall is asking people in Cornwall to identify community issues that could be helped with the help of mentoring and support from designers and businesses. Nominate the issues you think need some co-designed solutions

Designing innovative new ways to promote Cornwall through its produce and products.

Designing ways to enhance people's skills and link people at real and perceived risk of redundancy with new, long-term work opportunities in Cornwall.

What could designers do to help a deprived community in Pengegon develop services that will benefit the people who live there?

The Design for Social Inclusion brief in the 2010 Design Directions Competition challenged the UK’s brightest and best students to design a product or service for a group of people who are currently excluded from mainstream design practice.

Year 8 pupils from across Cornwall were given the opportunity to make parts of their school more sustainable by working with designers on the Eco Design Challenge. They calculated the size of their school's ecological footprint, then designed ways to make it smaller.

Dott Cornwall wants to know what you think design is so they have devised Dott Shot, a chance for you to upload your pictures of design in Cornwall and maybe win a prize.

Leading design thinkers including Ezio Manzini and Nabeel Hamdi share their thoughts about the important emerging issues for design and about what design is in our time.

The Dott design process has the following stages; diagnosis, co-discovery; co-design; co-develop; co-deliver and legacy. Each stage develops and refines ideas towards a practical reality, where communities are involved throughout the journey.