Design Interactions workshop at IBE
Students and staff at the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art took part in a two day workshop at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. The aim of the workshop was to provide those from the RCA with an embedded view upon biomedical technologies, and for those based at IBE to have a refreshed set of responses to their research.
The workshop included an introduction and tour from Rob Fenton – Research Development Director at IBE – with presentations from Nick Oliver and Olive Murphy, and lab experiments lead by Shahid Aziz and Thao Le.
This kicked off a four week project for Design Interactions students, with researchers at IBE and Reading taking up visiting tutor roles at the RCA through tutorial sessions, providing feedback on the projects. A project blog was set up by Cesar, to share design materials and other start points.
Additionally, Paul Thurston of Think Public, Tom Shakespeare of PEALS and Alex Wilkie from Goldsmiths were invited to provide a programme of evening lectures for students to hear about how public sector work and sociology might broaden the exchange between biomedical engineering and reflective design.
A final crit takes place on Thursday 15th May, with a morning of discussion following on friday 16th. Please get in touch if you would like to know more about this workshop, or would like to try something similar.
During a frenetic tutorial with Bernard, his digital plaster sent a message. In fact it was Gunnar, who was sat behind us.
