Design for social inclusion
Community-based design
Award: £2000
Dott Cornwall
Dott Cornwall is a Partnership established by the Design Council, Cornwall Council and the University College Falmouth to deliver a series of design-led community engagement projects, addressing some of the challenging social and economic issues facing people in Cornwall today.
Dott Cornwall taps into the creativity and ingenuity of local communities to help them shape their own future. The Dott methodology is based on a ‘bottom-up’ approach; it encourages people to co-create solutions to local challenges and take ownership of the process and outcomes, therefore creating a better chance of the project becoming embedded in the community.
Dott Cornwall will include public design commissions – these are projects which provide the opportunity for broad community involvement, a significant skills and innovation programme partnered with University College Falmouth, show-casing progress and results, and an Eco-design Challenge for schools.
Design Council
The Design Council is the national strategic body for design.
We aim to strengthen and support the economy and society by demonstrating and promoting the vital role of design in making businesses more competitive and public services more effective. Our goal is that UK managers are the best users of design in the world, supported by the most skilled and capable design professionals.
Our work includes:
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A national programme of design support for managers
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A ten-year public design promotion in UK regions
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Campaigns to accelerate innovation and transformation in industry and the public sector through practical interventions promoting the strategic use of design
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Projects generating new thinking on how design can be used to tackle key economic and social challenges.
The Design Council is funded by grant-in-aid from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.