Thaw 2007 - imagine there was no oil
11:14 am on the 2nd of February, 2007IDEA has just announced its ‘call for submission’ for Thaw 2007. IDEA is the Industrial Designers of Edmonton Association (so not local) and Thaw is an event which gives “visitors an opportunity to view and purchase innovative and original products and ideas.”
The brief is interesting, in short it is ‘imagine there was no oil.’ I don’t see anything stopping schools in Scotland taking up this challenge, there is no benefit of actually submitting to this event - the only prize as such would be recognition so the costs would far outweigh the benefits - but a local (within school or authority?) equivalent competition could be feasible and would tie in very nicely with areas of the curriculum, citizenship for example. Of course most of the crafting that happens in schools is with wood or metal anyway so ruling out plastic isn’t too much of a hurdle, but try coming up with a new CD case, or redesigning most of the stuff in your kitchen.
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[tags]idea, design, sustainable development, schools, thaw2007[/tags]
Tags: Design, idea, schools, sustainable-development, thaw2007
