http://dott07.sedes-research.de Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:14:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New Work is a co-design project to develop services that meet practical everyday needs of micro-businesses across the North East. It's about working people helping each other out more with the practical hassles that wear us down. We spoke to Helen Kerrigan from Enabling Concepts who guided the businesses participating ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=78 An interview with Robert O'Dowd, Executive Producer of Dott 07 Melissa Lukowski: You're the Executive Producer of Dott 07. What makes Dott 07 Festival different from other design festivals? Robert O'Dowd: The original idea was driven by the Design Council, which is the national body for design in the UK. They wanted ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=76 Julia Schaeper from Engine on service design, the difference between working with the public and the private sector and the advantage of being a generalist. Do you still have to explain service design or is there a broad understanding of what service design is and can do by now? Which props ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=73 Julia Schaeper, service designer at Engine, on their Dott 07 project Our New School Melissa Lukowski: Julia, can you tell us something about your project Our New School? Julia Schaeper: The Our New School project is a year long project that started in the summer of last year. The starting point was ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=72 We're back in Germany now. We need the weekend to recreate – running around conducting interviews, taking pictures, filming impressions, listening to debates, transliterating interviews and talking English most of time was quite exhausting. We have lots more to write about on this blog, but give us time until Monday. ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=65 Lauren Tan gives us some more insights on Dott 07 and her view of service design. Melissa Lukowski: You are conducting part of the research for your PhD on Dott and the Dott 07 Festival. Can you give us some insights? Lauren Tan: The idea of Dott came from Richard Florida's ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=64 What a surprise! We were listening to the debate »movement dilemma«, and after a short brake, when we wanted to leave, we suddenly discovered familiar faces among a group of Glasgow students sitting behind us: Hamish, Hazel and Joanne, who did their exchange year at KISD. The fact that they ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=55 I just overheard a Dott 07 crew member questioning a visitor on her opinion to the festival. One of the questions was whether the lady had visited the Welcomes Zone. In her answer she made a very good point: she did see it, but she didn't visit it, because it ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=54 An interview with Lauren Tan, PhD student at Northumbria University Melissa Lukowski: We're standing in front of the new Northumbria University. What is the concept of this school? Lauren Tan: About a month and a half ago the Faculty of Design, Newcastle Business School and the School of Law moved to the ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=49 Several Projects at dott 07 are about Sustainability. But the festival itself takes place in tents which aren't insulated. And the doors have to be open all day to let people in. So the only way to make the festival tents warm is to put up radiant heaters. But, unfortunately, ... http://dott07.sedes-research.de/?p=44