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Kitchen Table

30 April 2014

The idea for this social enterprise originated at our Food Chiasma in April 2014 from participants Lynne Wardle and Karen Lyttle of design agency Taylor Haig. Over a million people in Scotland live in poverty including over 200,000 children. Kitchen Table provides a local restaurant in communities affected by poverty with good, affordable food in a well-designed setting.

Final Report

12 December 2016

Our closing report 'Design in Action: a new economy of knowledge exchange' draws together many of the lessons we have learned and just some of the knowledge we have gained, and is now available to read and share.

Connecting to Innovate Report

20 April 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of “Connecting to Innovate”, a preliminary report on the achievements of the AHRC knowledge exchange hubs for the creative economy.

BAUM Launch Event at University of Dundee

22 January 2016

We were proud to host local schools to the University of Dundee to play and hear about the development of A Fox Wot I Drew's recently-launched mobile game BAUM.

VIDEO: John Mathers, Design Council

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