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MA in Design and Innovation student work showcase (II)

Student: Taegyun Lee

Project Title: Environmental Transformation Design DE-DESERTIFICATION

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Taegyun Lee developed an innovation project from his own interests in eco-materials and product development. He used bio-mimicry of ancient desert plants to attempt reintroducing self watering seed propagators to allow plants to be introduced back into areas that have become deserts. Taegyun undertook extensive research into bio-materials, in particular bio-resins that convert into plant food. Partnering with a Botanist he developed a staged planting process to enable the transformation of the desert. The image shows how the heat from the sun and moisture transforming the object and protecting the young plant.

Student Background: Product Designer.

Won a Venture competition to develop his product work. Continue reading “MA in Design and Innovation student work showcase (II)”

MA in Design and Innovation student work showcase

What do the MA in Design and Innovation students really do on their course? Well, programme leader Mike Waller has allowed us to have a peek at some of the student work:

Student: Jingbo Zhang

Project Title: Experience Design -Encouraging Healthy Diets in Children

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Jingbo’s project researched the problems parents have in encouraging the healthy eating of their children. Through lots of experiments and making Jingbo designed a range of plates that parents could use to create more interactive eating. The outcomes were tested with a group of families. The parents really enjoyed the process of constructing the food with the children on each plate, and the children were more interested in the process of eating.

Student Background: Product Design; Currently an Academic in China teaching Experience Design/ Product Design. Continue reading “MA in Design and Innovation student work showcase”

MA graduate Yang Song wins A’ Design Award 2015

Yang Song, a 2014 graduate of our MA in Design: Critical Practice, has won the A’ Design Award for “Familiar and Unfamiliar”, a project developed at Goldsmiths and exhibited at last year’s Postgraduate Design Show. “Familiar and Unfamiliar” is comprised of moving furniture with clockwork mechanisms, handmade in the Goldsmiths workshops.

Yang explained for the A’ Design Awards website the idea behind the project: “The inspiration mainly comes from the memories of daily objects during my childhood. We cherish old objects as our close friends, because sometimes they could recall us the old times of ourselves. […] We are surrounded by thousands of fast-food products, our values as well as perceptions become “fast-food”. Consequently, the modern society is a familiar but unfamiliar world to us. Through this design oriented programme “Familiar and Unfamiliar”, I intend to explore the true meanings of daily objects in our everyday lives and the true meaning of life itself”.

You can read a more detailed description of the project on the website of the A’ Design Awards, where you can also find an interview with Yang Song.