Core77

Cambridge to Kick Off UK's Design Icons Series

By Rain Noe - January 20, 2012

in Events | Exhibitions

Creative Front Cambridgeshire is a UK-based business network for creative industries, based at Cambridge's Anglia Ruskin University. They've been selected by the UK's Design Council to kick off Design Icons, a series of national design events, this February.

The Design Icons Exhibition Launch Party is slated for February 9th and will celebrate local design talent, with pieces like Alex Driver and Carlos Peralta's Moss Table, above, which turns the moss in biophotovoltaic energy generators strong enough to power the table's lamp.

Nineteen other Cambridge-designed objects, ranging from housewares to medical devices to consumer electronics, will be on display. Click here for more information on the exhibit and see Creative Front Cambridgeshire's weekly schedule of design-, manufacturing- and business-related events.

o

Favorite This
Q
1

Comment

Comments

Carlos Peralta

12 years ago

Z

Z

Reply

Hi There,

I am very happy that you are featuring the moss table in Core77. This table is a conceptual design that intends to show the potential of Biophotovoltaic technology (developed by scientists from the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Plant Science and Biochemistry at Cambridge University, and the Chemistry department at Bath University.) and how it might be applied in the future. It suggests the upcoming of artificial-natural hybrid objects in the home environment. At the moment the technology is at a very early stage of development, and the electricity generated by the moss is enough to power small electronic devices (like a digital alarm clock), but not to power the integrated lamp. However, it is expected that within the next 10 years or so, continuous research on biophotovoltaics will make this possible.

Cheers,

Carlos Peralta

!Report as spam