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.

challenge

The World's Smallest Water Museum 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.

process

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.

result

The speaking museum won £5,000 from Southern Water and further £1,000 from BP for its innovative approach to communicate the problem. The World's Smallest Water Museum has now been built and it arrived at Sholing Technology College on 18 October 2010. Students can start experiencing the interactive exhibits and learn more about how they can make simple changes to the way they behave in order to save water.

The World's Smallest Water Museum movie has been created by the students of Sholing Technology College in Southampton
Water Design Challenge winners 2010

See the original proposal