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IDE WIP Work in Progress 2015 Show Group Project Interviews

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IDE GoGlobal St. Saint Petersburg 2015

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Inflating Curiosity: MIT Tangible Media Group / Royal College of Art

Professor Hiroshi Ishii at the RCA along with researchers from MIT's Tangible Media Group as part of Inflating Curiosity, a three-day workshop celebrating the ongoing relationship between the Royal College of Art and the Tangible Media Group.

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Cupris Otoscope & Opthalmoscope by Cupris Health - AXA PPP Health Tech & You Category Winner 2O15

A smartphone connected otoscope that enables users to take still and video images of their inner-ear to share with healthcare professionals.

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Ackeem Ngwenya will be giving a Pecha Kucha-style presentation of his graduation work the Roadless Wheel at Design Indaba Conference 2015 on 25-27th of Feb. 

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Group projects make up a significant part of the curriculum in all programmes in the School of Design.

The ten group projects by second-year Innovation Design Engineering students see them embracing complex and challenging real-world problems, with many focusing on questions of communication and language: CUE-scape, for instance, uses a Dictionary of Gestures as part of on-going research into non-verbal communication.

http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/school-of-design-work-in-progress-show-2015/

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Sky news features a product concept for impact detection, for athletes with impairments.

http://news.sky.com/story/1390978/swipe-the-tech-helping-disabled-athletes

The project, by Elena Dieckmann, Dan Garrett, Lucy Jung, and Ming Kong, was part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge (RTSIC) project, celebrating the Winter Paralympics.

A pressure-sensitive suit designed by researchers at Imperial College London identifies possible injuries in athletes who may be unaware they have been hurt.

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Chris Natt & Chang Hee Lee  on Design Council's 'One to Watch' list

@DesignCouncil #70OnesToWatch

Congrats to IDE alum Chris Natt (2013) and current doctoral researcher Chang Hee Lee, who both make this list marking the Design Council's 70th anniversary.

Meet 70 rising design stars that we think represent the future of British design.

Our Ones to Watch have been chosen from hundreds of entrants for their outstanding vision, ambition and potential to contribute to the UK’s reputation as a leading design nation.

www.designcouncil.org.uk/onestowatch

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Watch the Gravity Sketch Team's TED talk about the future of digital tools at the TEDx Conference in Athens. 

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Lego X by IDE Alumnus

Lego X is a new platform (in development) which lets you use Lego bricks to create digital models without touching a computer software. "If you can use Lego then you can create 3D models and print them or share them online through Lego X" — a project by Daniela Prds, Guillaume Couche, Pierre Yves and Oluwaseyi Sosanya.

Click here to watch the video.

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Some outcomes from the latest Gizmo project: this year, inspired by nature.

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IDE Project, Eddy - Finalists at People's Choice Award

Eddy is a small device that uses sound to inform you about your home - connecting you to changes in alarms, appliances, occupancy and more.

To hear the Co-founders' 60 second pitch from the Duke of York's Pitch at Palace bootcamp, click here.

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IDE Project Shortlisted for Mayor's Low Carbon Award 2014

A crowd-sourced courier service devised by Royal College of Art Innovation Design Engineering students has been shortlisted for the Mayor’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur prize 2014.

For full story click here.

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IDE takes on real world challenges.

Prof. Miles Pennington IDE 1992

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Go-Global's 10th Anniversary with Israel

GoGlobal, a flagship Innovation Design Engineering student project, celebrated its tenth anniversary this year taking 39 first-year students on a ground-breaking research trip to Israel–Palestine.

Read the full  RCA article here.

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American Society for Cybernetics honours Prof Ranulph Glanville

Ranulph Glanville, Research Senior Tutor and Professor in Innovation Design Engineering was recently honoured by the American Society for Cybernetics, of which he is president, 

The… award is made to Ranulph Glanville, President of the ASC, for his tremendous support of our organization. Ranulph has served on the ASC executive board for many years, including two full terms as president. Ranulph once wrote that he finds it more important to provide a playing field to others than it is for himself to play. This is the spirit in which he leads the ASC, consistently relegating himself to the role of supporting and enabling others, despite having more to say about cybernetics than most of us.

During Ranulph’s presidency, the ASC has more than doubled its membership, and the financial situation of the organization has improved considerably.

Under Ranulph’s leadership the ASC has also seen a strong series of conferences that strike difficult balances between welcoming funded academics as well as unfunded enthusiasts; and that strike a balance between accommodating conversational encounters, as well as rigorously peer-reviewed academic publications in recognized academic journals in our field.

At the same time, under RG's leadership the ASC has seen a variety of other projects and initiatives including a cybernetics competition and the restoration of the society's legal standing as a tax-exempt non-profit corporation and an overhaul of its constitution in close consultation with the membership.

Ranulph is a philosopher and teacher of design and cybernetics who in the presence of Aartje has become a strong advocate of action and acting. Aartje is an action-oriented practitioner who in the presence of Ranulph extends her practice into the domain of conversational philosophy.

Together, these two tokens of appreciation recognize Ranulph’s and Aartje’s mutual support of one another as well as their support of the ASC. The gesture of these sculptures reflects the mutually completing nature of their relationship. 

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IDE/GID Project 'Bruise' on BBC

BBC News features a product concept for impact detection, for athletes with impairments.

The project, by Elena Dieckmann, Dan Garrett, Lucy Jung, and Ming Kong, was part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge (RTSIC) project, celebrating the Winter Paralympics.

The clip includes some of the expert users and athletes consulted during the project.

"A pressure-sensitive suit designed by researchers at Imperial College London identifies possible injuries in athletes who may be unaware they have been hurt.

BBC London's Charlotte Franks spoke to Lee Matthews of the British Armed Forces wheelchair basketball team, British alpine skier Talan Skeels-Piggins and "bruise suit" designer Dan Garrett."