Andrea Siodmok: Dott Cornwall Appoints Programme Director

Dr Andrea Siodmok has been appointed by Cornwall Council to be Programme Director of Dott Cornwall.

She will be leaving her job as Chief Design Officer of the Design Council to take up the post in Cornwall in August.

Dott (Designs of the time) is the second in a pioneering initiative from the Design Council using design to help communities create their local services and develop solutions to local problems.

The Design Council will deliver the 18-month programme in partnership with the new unitary Cornwall Council and University College Falmouth.

As Programme Director, Siodmok will run a series of community design projects intended to give the people of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles the chance to help design the places where they live, work and play and the services they use.

Dott will also provide new skills and new opportunities for the Cornish design sector.

One of the key aims of Dott Cornwall is to grow professional design skills in the region, and 24 Cornwall-based designers have already been recruited to work on the various projects.