Tag: design

Jewellery created to combat anxiety

Ring uses Hoku point to relieve stress and pain

Retail therapy can often be prescribed to help improve mood or disposition. However, an Edinburgh Napier student has taken this a step further by developing a range of jewellery that actively calms an individual when worn! Continue reading Jewellery created to combat anxiety

Business is booming for Blackwood Award winner

THE designer of a pioneering spoon which allows people with disabilities to eat without spilling has paid tribute to a leading housing care and housing provider for the honour which propelled his invention into worldwide success. Grant Douglas, who has cerebral palsy, won the Blackwood Design Award in 2015 for his S’up spoon – an innovative design which uses a ‘lid’ to ensure its contents don’t spill. Continue reading Business is booming for Blackwood Award winner

Leith ‘s Fort development up for ‘property Oscar’

Twenty seven of the most innovative and community beneficial property projects from across Scotland are set to go against some of the region’s best in this year’s RICS Awards 2018, Scotland. Among them are the residential developments in Leith’s Fort (above) and 235 Corstorphine Road.  Continue reading Leith ‘s Fort development up for ‘property Oscar’

Do You Have Designs To Help People With Disabilities?

A LEADING housing and care specialist has launched its annual search to find the brightest and best new innovations to help those with disabilities. The Blackwood Design Awards seek to celebrate the brilliant new designs, technologies and adaptations which help people with disabilities to live life to the full. Continue reading Do You Have Designs To Help People With Disabilities?

Making Places: communities by design

People to have say in the design of their area

Communities across Scotland can bid to take part in a new £325,000 scheme to regenerate their neighbourhood, Local Government Minister Kevin Stewart has announced. The Making Places Initiative will help bring communities together to agree improvements for their area based on local need and priorities.

The expanded scheme has grown from the success of a previous Charette programme which teamed local people with design professionals to look at what would improve their places and communities. This new initiative will continue to offer support for events of this type alongside more comprehensive support to deliver on these ideas.

Minister for Local Government Kevin Stewart said: “From the Borders to the Western Isles, the people who live, work and socialise in our communities have the best local knowledge to consider how that place should evolve and regenerate and I would encourage people across the country to consider applying.

“This new Making Places Initiative allows more opportunities for communities to choose what works for them. It takes the success we’ve seen through community collaboration and increases the focus on encouraging and enabling more and more people to become involved.”

 

 

And wHY not? US ‘Hobbit House’ to replace Ross Bandstand

A design dubbed “The Hobbit House” has won the competition to create a new outdoor concert arena to replace the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens. American firm wHY beat off stiff competition from 125 teams from 22 countries to design the £25m project. Continue reading And wHY not? US ‘Hobbit House’ to replace Ross Bandstand

A horse in the home: Callum designs equine therapy chair

Chair replicates riding motion to provide home therapy for autistic children

Autistic children could soon receive the benefits of equine therapy from the comfort of their own home thanks to a unique chair design by an Edinburgh Napier student. Fourth year Callum Hunter has designed ‘U Rock’ – a therapy chair that replicates the movement of a horse when walking – as part of his final year project at the University. Continue reading A horse in the home: Callum designs equine therapy chair