Design Challenges for Schools blog

Local MP Diane Abbott launches Enrich - a new service to keep older adults better connected to their local community

Is now the time to think about broader notions of design and architecture in schools? 

The Keeping Connected Business Challenge follows the hard work done by schools in the Keeping Connected Schools Challenge.

www.keepingconnected.co.uk

The older adult market opportunity from Design Council on Vimeo.

About the Keeping Connected Schools Challenge from Design Council on Vimeo.

Pupils from Fort Pitt Grammar School in Chatham, Kent were crowned winners  of the Water Design Challenge 2011, scooping £8,000 in prize money in the process with their entry demonstrating how their solution would reduce the amount of water used in the school’s toilets by a third, saving around £5,000 on the school’s annual water bill.

Key Stage 3 students in five schools in the South East designed services, products and campaigns to improve the way their school uses water with the World's Smallest Water Museum proving the winning idea