Making it Count
by Andrea Siodmok
31.05.11
Now that Dott Cornwall has finished, our evaluation has been completed and our people have moved on to pastures new, it seems a good time to look back on the last two years and see what difference we have made.
Highlights for me have to include:
1) The amazing spirit, intelligence and wit of young people presenting their ideas in the Eco Design challenge - and of course Will Coleman's magical prose and Leap Media's energy and passion for education and sustainability.
2) My first visit to Pengegon, meeting Clare Arymar and our trip to the House of Lords to meet Lord Wei.
3) Winning the Media Innovation Awards with the fantastic Dott Shot campaign with design and strategy from SEA Communications and Gendall.
4) The Mirrored Dinner at Rustlers Yachts with the mouthwatering Cornish Produce and fantastic dinner guests.
5) Building a Shelterbox hotel in a night with the brilliant team from Expedition and Pete Kirby's vision, plus loads of goodwill and raising £1,900.
6) Feeling the vibe at the Eden Project for Intersections 2011 conference and putting together 'Common Sense' with Design Week.
7) The audacious and beautiful Cornwall Design Season and the thousands of volunteer hours.
8) The winning student submission for the RSA student prize looking at children in Care and UCF's brilliant workshop for New Designers Show.
9) The Talkaoke at the Royal Cornwall Show and the Energy Playground that was tested to near destruction by about 1,000 kids.
10) Meeting and working with the amazing people of Cornwall in all of our projects, but of course most recently in the big design challenge working with SEA commuications and Two Design on our wonderful Cornwall post it note map.
There are so many hightlights, its isn't fair to choose some above others. We are really proud of our efforts together with Cornwall that have (we hope) shown it is important to think big, but act small - as we tried to describe more eloquently in our Dott Review 'Big Society by Design'.
And a final word to our advisory board and the late Blair Thomson and all who have given us support, challenge and inspiration in all our work.
Highlights for me have to include:
1) The amazing spirit, intelligence and wit of young people presenting their ideas in the Eco Design challenge - and of course Will Coleman's magical prose and Leap Media's energy and passion for education and sustainability.
2) My first visit to Pengegon, meeting Clare Arymar and our trip to the House of Lords to meet Lord Wei.
3) Winning the Media Innovation Awards with the fantastic Dott Shot campaign with design and strategy from SEA Communications and Gendall.
4) The Mirrored Dinner at Rustlers Yachts with the mouthwatering Cornish Produce and fantastic dinner guests.
5) Building a Shelterbox hotel in a night with the brilliant team from Expedition and Pete Kirby's vision, plus loads of goodwill and raising £1,900.
6) Feeling the vibe at the Eden Project for Intersections 2011 conference and putting together 'Common Sense' with Design Week.
7) The audacious and beautiful Cornwall Design Season and the thousands of volunteer hours.
8) The winning student submission for the RSA student prize looking at children in Care and UCF's brilliant workshop for New Designers Show.
9) The Talkaoke at the Royal Cornwall Show and the Energy Playground that was tested to near destruction by about 1,000 kids.
10) Meeting and working with the amazing people of Cornwall in all of our projects, but of course most recently in the big design challenge working with SEA commuications and Two Design on our wonderful Cornwall post it note map.
There are so many hightlights, its isn't fair to choose some above others. We are really proud of our efforts together with Cornwall that have (we hope) shown it is important to think big, but act small - as we tried to describe more eloquently in our Dott Review 'Big Society by Design'.
And a final word to our advisory board and the late Blair Thomson and all who have given us support, challenge and inspiration in all our work.
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