Dott 07 (Designs of the time 2007) is a year of community projects, events and exhibitions based in North East England that explore what life in a sustainable region could be like – and how design can help us get there. The year culminates in a twelve day festival in Newcastle Gateshead in October 2007, showing the results of projects and enabling all the people involved to share experiences. The Dott 07 Festival is supposed to inspire people and motivate them to participate in or even initiate similar projects themselves.

Lots of the projects presented at the festival are service design projects. Service design is still Continue Reading »