World's Smallest Water Museum

The World's Smallest Water Museum is an
interactive portable exhibition about water usage
and how to reduce it, co-designed with Key Stage
3 students of the Sholing Technology College in
Southampton.The project is the result of the
Water Design Challenge 2010, an initiative for
Key Stage 3 students and teachers in the South
East who are interested in using design to make
water saving easy and enjoyable. The Design
Council is working with Southern Water to
encourage schools reduce their water usage,
drive behaviour change in the next generation of
water customers, and come up with innovative
new ways of saving water.

During a series of co-design, ideas generation
and prototyping workshops, the students and the
teachers involved with the project were
introduced to the different phases of the design
process, from insight gathering to development
and testing. The creative problem solving
approach applied to the issue of water wastage
within the school, led to an engaging and fun
communication campaign and the creation of the
World's Smallest Water Museum, an interactive
exhibition that would fit into a portaloo and that
could be moved around local schools to raise
awareness of why we need to save water.

The World's Smallest Water Museum is a
commonground project in collaboration with
Bruno Taylor and Angela Morelli. The video has
been produced by the students and staff of the
Sholing Technology College in Southampton.