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The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Award
Value: £1,000
The Royal Commission was established in 1850 under the chairmanship of Prince Albert, to organise and stage the Great Exhibition. Held in the spectacular Crystal Palace, constructed in Hyde Park, it was the first ever World Fair, and the most successful. With over 6 million visitors, it also made a substantial profit.
Consolidated by Supplemental Charter, the Royal Commission set out "to increase the means of industrial education and extend the influence of science and art upon productive industry". To this end it purchased 87 acres of land in South Kensington and helped establish its three great museums, the Royal Albert Hall and renowned institutions of learning, including Imperial College and the Royal Colleges of Art and Music. When this huge undertaking was complete, there remained sufficient funds for the Royal Commission to set up, in 1891, an educational trust to perpetuate its aims. It supports pure research in science and engineering, applied research in industry, industrial design and other projects.
The 1851 Royal Commission continues this work to this day, both managing its freehold estate and awarding approaching £2M a year in research fellowships, design studentships and other grants. The Commission's aim is to 'make a difference' and its achievement is evident, with 12 Nobel Prize winners and over 150 Fellows of the Royal Society among its previous award winners.
Judging panel
Emily Campbell, Director of Design, Creative Education Trust (Chair)
Bill Nicholl, Lecturer, Design & Technology Education, University of Cambridge
Nigel Williams, Secretary, The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Michael Marriott, Product designer and Curator
Erin Deighton, Designer, Innovator and Play Futurist
Mat Hunter, Chief Design Officer, Design Council
David Whitebread, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, University of Cambridge
Terence Woodgate RDI FRSA
Further reading and resources
Organisations and Websites
The Campaign for Drawing
Books
Crawford, M. (2010). The Case for Working with Your Hands: Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good. New York: Penguin Viking.
Luecking, S. (2002). Principles of Three-Dimensional Design: Objects, Space, and Meaning. Harlow, Essex: Pearon Education.
Macaulay, D. (1988). The Way Things Work. New York: Houghton Miflin.
Macaulay, D. (1973). Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction. New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
Other sources
The Power of Making exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which celebrates the role of making in our lives through an eclectic selection of over 100 exquisitely crafted objects.
The drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an 18th century Italian artist and draftsmen famed for his fantstical drawings and etchings of Rome and imaginary spaces.
The paintings of Piero della Francesca, an early Renaissance artist reknown for his use of geometric form and perspective.
Isometric projection is a way of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. It is one type of axonometric projection, where the three coordinate axes are all equally foreshortened and the angles between any two of them are always 120 degrees.
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