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RCA DESIGN INTERACTIONS SHOW 2011

By Ray Hu - July 6, 2011

Masamichi Souzou: Everything Considered For the past six months, J. Paul Neeley has been tinkering with the many variables of his daily life - from sleeping patterns, to exercise regime and diet - in an attempt to optimize his happiness. Having removed seating from his life almost entirely in the process, J. Paul walks well over 10km a day whilst working atop a treadmill. His concept "Masamichi Souzou" proposes to offer such happiness optimisation as a service.
Designed by: J. Paul Neeley
www.masamichisouzou.com Sam Dunne 1 of 47

Prototype Robotic Armpit Kevin Grennan asks the questions "What should a robot smell like?"
Designed by: Kevin Grennan
www.kevingrennan.com Sam Dunne 2 of 47

The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus & Trust Would we respond differently to robots if we could smell them?
Designed by: Kevin Grennan
www.kevingrennan.com Sam Dunne 3 of 47

The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus & Trust Would we respond differently to robots if we could smell them?
Designed by: Kevin Grennan
www.kevingrennan.com Sam Dunne 4 of 47

Android Birthday Kevin also wonders if the introduction of robot birthdays could help bridge the uncanny valley.
Designed by: Kevin Grennan
www.kevingrennan.com Sam Dunne 5 of 47

Plant Robot Intriguing unnamed plant robot found in the Design Interactions exhibit
www.di11.rca.ac.uk/ Sam Dunne 6 of 47

Unreliable Machinery: Movement Cloaker Our mobile phones will soon record just about everything we do. Steffen Fiedler imagines a future where our behavioural patterns could be physically recorded and reproduced - perhaps resulting in the arrival of machines such as the "Movement Cloaker" to trick our nosey mobile devices.
Designed by: Steffen Fiedler
www.steffenfiedler.com Sam Dunne 7 of 47

Unreliable Machinery: Movement Cloaker Modules used to replicate certain behavioural patterns such as walking (left) and nervous (right)
Designed by: Steffen Fiedler
www.steffenfiedler.com Sam Dunne 8 of 47

New Needs in an Augmented World The octocoupler is a device that we might soon need to relax ourr minds after a hard day of information bombardment.
Designed by: Ludwig Zeller
www.ludwigzeller.de Sam Dunne 9 of 47

New Needs in an Augmented World With our daily lives becoming ever more faced past and distracting devices such as the "Introspectre" may be highly desirable to keep track of your thoughts and give a warning if you begin to drift off task.
Designed by: Ludwig Zeller
www.ludwigzeller.de Sam Dunne 10 of 47

Known Unknowns The "Random Event Harvester" is an imagined device intended for the gathering of random numbers generated by the detection of radioactive particles - a necessary resource for scientists and economists.
Designed by: Jonas Loh & Steffen Fiedler
www.jonas-loh.com www.steffenfiedler.com Sam Dunne 11 of 47

Known Unknowns The "Random Anemometer" similarly collects random bitstreams, but by way of wind power.
Designed by: Jonas Loh & Steffen Fiedler
www.jonas-loh.com www.steffenfiedler.com Sam Dunne 12 of 47

Known Unknowns Random Cosmic Ray Detection Chamber
Designed by: Jonas Loh & Steffen Fiedler
www.jonas-loh.com www.steffenfiedler.com Sam Dunne 13 of 47

The Energy Pilots The tongue-in-cheek "Energy Pilots" presents hypothetical business models to increase the economic viability of low-carbon energy e.g. the "Thrill Attraction Model" whereby users would be rewarded by being entered into a lottery.
Designed by: Elliot P. Montgomery
www.epmid.com Sam Dunne 14 of 47

The Energy Pilots The tongue-in-cheek "Energy Pilots" presents hypothetical business models to increase the economic viability of low-carbon energy e.g. the "Thrill Attraction Model" whereby users would be rewarded bu entering into a lottery.
Designed by: Elliot P. Montgomery
www.epmid.com Sam Dunne 15 of 47

Back, Here Below, Formidable Murmuring intermitently over the show was this giant beast - a proposed audio resurrection of extinct animals, such as the Woolly Mammoth, through the reproduction of their vocal tracts.
Designed by: Marguerite Humeau
www.di11.rca.ac.uk/marguerite-humeau Sam Dunne 16 of 47

Back, Here Below, Formidable The lungs of the beast
Designed by: Marguerite Humeau
www.di11.rca.ac.uk/marguerite-humeau Sam Dunne 17 of 47

Back, Here Below, Formidable A similar reproduction of early human voices
Designed by: Marguerite Humeau
www.di11.rca.ac.uk/marguerite-humeau Sam Dunne 18 of 47

Biophilia In vitro tissue has long been seen as the answer to many of our medical problems - but what if it could also be used as a production material, for baby incubators for example.
Designed by: Veronica Ranner
vroniranner.bplaced.net Sam Dunne 19 of 47

Biophilia Many of us our uncomfortable with the thought of machine produced organ implants. Would we be more openminded if these replacements were produced "organically" by say modified silkworms.
Designed by: Veronica Ranner
vroniranner.bplaced.net Sam Dunne 20 of 47

Prospectus For a Future Body Ka Fai Choy experiments with muscle memory and how it might be minipulated in future cultural prcoesses of music and dance.
Designed by: Ka Fai Choy
www.ka5.info Sam Dunne 21 of 47

Heathrow Heritage Inspired by a stories of families passing through Heathrow airport, Lisa Ma imagines an activistic service that would take stranded passengers for bike tours of the surrounding ancient villages under threat from airport expansion.
Designed by: Lisa Ma
www.lisama.co.uk Sam Dunne 22 of 47

An Urban Sensation With the increasing amount of personal and urban environmental data being collected it will soon be possible to reconstruct our past sensory experiences. " The Urban Monitoring System" is a proposed open-source infrastructure of networked devices to collect such data.
Designed by: Daniel Foster-Smith
danfs.co.uk Sam Dunne 23 of 47

The Fish Feast Erik de Laurens experiments with fish scales as a material for production.
Designed by: Erik de Laurens
www.erikdelaurens.com Sam Dunne 24 of 47

The Fish Feast Erik de Laurens experiments with fish scales as a material for production.
Designed by: Erik de Laurens
www.erikdelaurens.com Sam Dunne 25 of 47

Particle Economy In a natural deposit poor economy new technologies like the "Urban Aerial Particle Net" may be developed to harvest unlikely, and as yet untapped, resources such as city smog.
Designed by: Gerrit Kaiser
gerritkaiser.de Sam Dunne 26 of 47

Particle Economy The Cloud Collector airship extracts minerals from clouds
Designed by: Gerrit Kaiser
gerritkaiser.de Sam Dunne 27 of 47

Particle Economy With copper mines stripped bare we may being "growing" the material with ferrooxidan bacteria
Designed by: Gerrit Kaiser
gerritkaiser.de Sam Dunne 28 of 47

The Future is Not a Noun; It's a Verb Many of the Design Interaction students present their work with video - Charlotte Jarvis here exhibiting video of experiments carried out with strangers in clown costumes and armed with custard pies.
Designed by: Charlotte Jarvis
www.artforeating.co.uk Sam Dunne 29 of 47

Manufacturing Munroe Emily Hayes imagines the factory of the future - an enterprise exploiting developments in tissue and DNA engineering to produce objects of merchandise and paraphernalia, such as miniature cloned reproductions of Marilyn Munroe's breast.
Designed by: Emily Hayes
www.emilyhayes.co.uk Sam Dunne 30 of 47

Cruiser Charisma Jonas Loh's "fantastical caravan" imagines a utopian world where sustainable and self-sufficient living have become possible through emerging technologies such as synthetic biology, genetic engineering and bio-printing.
Designed by: Jonas Loh
www.jonas-loh.com Sam Dunne 31 of 47

QR U? Designed for the lead-singer of Icelandic band Steed Lord, the "QR U?" dress and accessories link gig goers to exclusive promotional content.
Designed by: Thorunn Arnadottir
www.thorunndesign.com Sam Dunne 32 of 47

The Devil's Pet A cutesy candle showing its darker side when lit.
Designed by: Thorunn Arnadottir
www.thorunndesign.com Sam Dunne 34 of 47

The Devil's Pet A cutesy candle showing its darker side when lit.
Designed by: Thorunn Arnadottir
www.thorunndesign.com Sam Dunne 35 of 47

Just Do It Yourself (Open-source Shoe) The proposal imagines that shoes could be available as free to access plans and instructions or sold as a kit of pre-cut parts ready to be assembled for those wanting predefined styles.
Designed by: James Tooze
jamestooze.wordpress.com/ Sam Dunne 36 of 47

Chair Mijin Park experiments with the weaving of modern materials and the contemporary notion of craftsmanship.
Designed by: Mijin Park
www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=512477&CategoryID=36775 Sam Dunne 38 of 47

Wall Planter As a process, this construction method provides great tensile strength for its modest weight, being strong enough to support itself and other objects. Utilising 2D textiles, Mijin creates large, self-supporting 3D forms, without the need for additional frames. The open structure of weaving also has a visual translucency, which does not disrupt the field of vision.
Designed by: Mijin Park
www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=512477&CategoryID=36775 Sam Dunne 39 of 47

From Here for Here Ariane Prin has begun manufacturing pencils from the waste of the RCA for the use of future students.
Designed by: Ariane Prin
www.arianeprin.com/ Sam Dunne 40 of 47

Lamp As a process, this construction method provides great tensile strength for its modest weight, being strong enough to support itself and other objects. Utilising 2D textiles, Mijin creates large, self-supporting 3D forms, without the need for additional frames. The open structure of weaving also has a visual translucency, which does not disrupt the field of vision.
Designed by: Mijin Park
www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=512477&CategoryID=36775 Sam Dunne 41 of 47

Allen Key Cutlery For the project "Some New Things" inspired a collection of everyday objects.
Designed by: Molly Anderson
http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=512414&CategoryID=36775 Sam Dunne 42 of 47

Roofers Container Lid Pouring liquids from the spout on a vessel often results in drips and it is a difficult shape to access for washing. The spout also faces upwards, offering an opening for any dust or particles to enter the vessel, when left on the table. Roofers solve these problems by removing the spout from the vessel and replacing it underneath the lid. The "roof" has no opening, so protects the contents, while the curve pushes the liquid back into the vessel after pouring, which prevents any drips forming.
Designed by: Shota Aoyagi
www.studiokoya.com Sam Dunne 43 of 47

Roofers Container Lid There are three types of object; jugs, a thermos and teapot. It works with any kind of liquid, without large solids; hot or cold water, milk, tea, coffee, orange juice (with bits), soy sauce, various oils etc.
Designed by: Shota Aoyagi
/www.studiokoya.com Sam Dunne 44 of 47

1.3 Chair Kihyun Kim's impressively strong compression molded balsa wood chair weighs little over a kilogram
Designed by: Kihyun Kim
www.kihyunkimdesign.com Sam Dunne 45 of 47

1.3 Chair Kihyun Kim's impressively strong compression molded balsa wood chair weighs little over a kilogram
Designed by: Kihyun Kim
www.kihyunkimdesign.com Sam Dunne 46 of 47

Alternative Alarm Clock Kihyun Kim also had a clever little alarm clock cum power socket on show
Designed by: Kihyun Kim
www.kihyunkimdesign.com Sam Dunne 47 of 47

Sweating robots, human flesh neo-natal incubators and a happy man who no longer sits down: just some of the spectacles at this year's Royal College of Art Design Interactions graduate show.