COHDA

I recently attended a lecture series and Richard Liddle, founder of this company was lecturing. I found them really interesting, their approach to design and the issues on sustainability that they are trying to address.

Cohda Design Limited are a UK based urban contemporary product design company with a strong environmental focus. Conforming to various environmental strategies and objec

tives, we create thought-provoking, easy to comprehend, engaging and unique designs that implement and explore new technologies. With an integral presence they aim to break down the pre-conceptions of what ethical, innovative design should be.

URE LIVE

As part of the Designs Council's Design of the Time Festival in October 2007 Cohda presented their event, U.R.E Live. The exhibit took the form of a Recycling Design Factory that created a series of handmade recycled designs direct from waste plastics over a 10-day period. The plastic waste needed to feed the event was brought along to the event by the visitors to the exhibit, in the form of milk bottles, food trays, and various plastic containers direct from their waste bins.

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The factory was housed in a disused Fire Station on Pilgrim Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The space was almost empty at the beginning of the event, but as the visitors supplied the waste materials needed to fuel the Cohda team's creativity, they saw first-hand how recycled products could be made. With the plastic rubbish they had donated being transformed on the spot into a range of beautiful and useful recycled designs. The final recycled products were displayed alongside information on how they were produced and the energy saved in the production process.

At the end of the week-long event Cohda gave away once design for every day of the exhibit. The winners of the designs were the fortunate few who had brought along their plastic waste, which was marked at the event with the suppliers details and the winners were picked out at random.

Thank you to everyone who got involved in the event and brought along there plastic.