Catalog: Design for our future selves 2003 Awards | |
| 1 challenge How can design students at the Royal College of Art be encouraged to think about their efuture selvesf, explore social challenges in their projects and test their ideas with users? The Design for our Future Selves awards scheme, now in its fourth year, is organised by the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the College to give young designers a platform for creative interaction with social trends and key user groups. This publication introduces the 55 shortlisted projects in the 2003 awards, which are competing for 6,000 in prize money. Every shortlisted entrant also receives a research ... | |
| 5 festival Winning and commended projects from the Design for our Future Selves awards 2003 will be showcased in the first-ever London Design Festival, scheduled to take place in the capital in September. The Festival will unite events from more than 30 leading organisations under the banner of design in London. At its heart will be an international conference at Bloomberg in the City of London, the World Creative Forum (23-25 September), exploring the impact of creativity on business and society. International visitors to the London Design Festival are being invited via receptions in 14 world ... | |
| 12 Georg Tremmel Shiko Fukuhara transplant biopresence This project explores the tradition of planting on the grave of a loved one by proposing to grow trees containing human DNA. Using a special process, the DNA is inserted into the treefs germline without altering the tree, thereby creating a service based on emerging biosciences that crosses the bridge between life and death in a symbolic and poetic way. Specifically focusing on the experience of retirement, this project looks at organising time in an imaginative and non-repetitive way that can help to plan and visualise the future in a non ... | |
| 27 Andrew Lang sports helmet visor Joseph Ludlow intrepid mapping A helmet-mounted visor for use with lightweight sports helmets offering sufficient eye protection from wind, city pollution and airborne debris. Although developed principally for both commuter cycling and racing, the concept is also applicable to sports that involve wearing a helmet, such as horse-riding or roller-blading. A system of public maps and personal digital badges that encourages people walking through London to break out of their routine and explore new pedestrian routes whilst on the move. The service aims to ... | |
| 40 Will Brook Ismini Samanidou optical tools A teaching tool for school pupils aged 10-16 to explore the properties of light, based on the use of pinhole photography. The resource teaches skills to harness the simplest of materials into an expressive medium. A poster that folds into a camera and a mobile darkroom are used to demonstrate the concept. Elio Caccavale utility pets This object allows the user to smoke cigarettes in his/her home without creating passive smoke that would damage the health of their utility pet an animal raised with its owners genes implanted so that itfs organs ... | |
| 52 and finally ... Taking place at the Royal College of Art, 20-24 September 2003, as part of the London Design Festival, a joint exhibition: Design for our Future Selves An exhibition of socially-aware projects by the Royal College of Art graduating class of 2003, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, twinned with: Icons on Icons Photography has played a significant role in perpetuating the icon, whether providing contemporary context for man-made objects or immortalising flesh and blood subjects. This collection of photographic portraits of icons with icons, presented by Parker, ... | |
