Our eminent panel of judges, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that this Clerkenwell Design Week should be graced with a twin staircase/bridge combo. This may be a little more challenging to realise than we’re used to!
Well, no rest for the wicked…
Just one week to go until the Next Generation Design workshops, hope you’re all as excited we are! The good news is that we’re still accepting applications so if you’re a budding Architect or Engineer and aged 14-16 then sign up now online to join us next weekend. More information on the NGD page:
Erica has worked her magic from this years endeavours, and the fledgling flight of the first episode of the enormously anticipate documentary is up on AKT II’s vimeo
And as if by magic, the Future of Design pavilion has been reborn on an island in Croatia. Armed with only this instruction manual Tobias from Hylemo has turned a lonely pile of ply into a majestic structure once more (and taken some nice photos, too).
Hopefully the Future of Design pavilion will now lead a long and happy life roaming free in the Adriatic. Not in the actual wet bit of the Adriatic, preferably.
Not content with having some free time we joined some of the big-shots of the engineering world at the inaugural IStructE Young Engineers Conference. The fantastic event aimed to inspire young engineers to take up the challenges of the future. We helped out setting a concept design challenge, getting teams to design a helical ramp. More photos can be found on the flickr site here. We’ll try and upload some more information soon.
Photos courtesy of Stop Talking Photography and Institution of Structural Engineers
The Future of Design Pavilion was unveiled this morning for the opening of Clerkenwell Design Week. The full story of the fantastic work the participating GCSE students put into the project, and how it made it from concept to construction can be see in our publication here, at http://tiny.cc/FutureOfDesign2016. Below is a timelapse showing how easy it was to build!
Special thanks to Annabel and Erica for their work on producing the book, and Erica’s timelapse.
It only took 13 hours, an average of 16 hands and 31 coffees to transform a pile of varnished CNC cut plywood into an enormous set of wonky shelves!
Many thanks to everyone who helped out, it was excellent fun. IKEA here we come.
Thank you to Wup Doodle Ltd for the CNC magic (and photos).
13 days left to turn 3 tonnes of stacked ply in Suffolk into a swooping assembly in Clerkenwell.
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