Winners 2015
CREATIVE CONDITIONS
Sponsored by RBS
Design and develop a vision and business case for an environment or situation that prompts and fosters creative thinking.
Riikka Suominen, Thea Engerdahl, Vilde Bjorgen, Kingston University
Project: Connect. Create. Collaborate, a mobile creativity network on the London Underground.
Award: Joint winners of the RBS Award for the Best Design Project
Ellie Lanham and Trystan Thompson, University of the West of England
Project: SPART, a workshop for primary school students to invent a new sport using innovative thinking.
Award: Joint winners of the RBS Award for the Best Design Project
Magdalena Borzecka, Duncan of Jordanstone College at the University of Dundee
Project: PLUG in, a mobile 3D printer lab to support people and communities who lack access to adequate equipment to help them develop their creative capacities.
Award: Joint winner of the RBS Award for the Best Business Case and Commended for the Best Design Project
Helen Karwot, Duncan of Jordanstone College at the University of Dundee
Project: Pulse, a mobile not-for-profit -based music practice, performance and recording space that allows people to make music.
Award: Joint winner of the RBS Award for the Best Business Case
Commended project
Nevena Balezdrova, London Metropolitan University
Project: Hubbub
Award: Highly Commended for Best Design Project and Best Business Case
FAIR PLAY
Sponsored by Springetts Brand Consultants
Design or re-design a consumer toy and its product packaging to minimise waste and environmental impact.
Lisa Hornsey, Northumbria University
Project: Squiggle, a gender neutral playhouse made from chalkboard that allows children to bring their imagination to life and transform the toy by drawing on it. Squiggle is ecologically produced, designed for a longer product life, and the packaging is made from 100% recycled and biodegradable elements.
Award: Winner of the paid internship at Springetts Brand Consultants
Christopher Doyle, University of Northampton
Project: Morty, a multifunctional educational toy product with four modes of use. Morty's circular design incorporates packaging and upcycling of household waste as part of the play experience, and encourages a regenerative cycle of play that minimises waste.
Award: Winner of the Natracare Award
Commended projects
Will Astley, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London)
Project: Create a Monster
Award: Highly Commended
Lewis Power, Northumbria University
Project: STOPMO!
Award: Highly Commended
Eddie Hamilton, Northumbria University
Project: The Toy Factory
Award: Commended
Laimis Narsutis, Northumbria University
Project: KORKi BLOCKS
Award: Commended
HERITAGE BY DESIGN
Sponsored by Green Room
Design a way for people and communities to better connect to and celebrate heritage.
Jenny Johnson and Erik Winterburn, University of the West of England
Project: The Dialect Heritage Group, Ee Bah Gum! – a guide and phrase book as a means for recording and preserving the Yorkshire dialect as dialect holds an important role in the preservation of heritage.
Award: Winner of the paid internship at Green Room
Kazz Morohashi, Norwich University of the Arts
Project: Walkies, an innovative digital heritage mapping and storytelling project made for children, by children, which explores new ways of engaging with heritage and empowers children to think, articulate and define their own notion of heritage.
Award: Winner of the Patricia Tindale Legacy Award
Commended projects
Alice Blenclowe, Henry Richardson and Natalie Wye, Kingston University
Project: Across Here
Award: Highly Commended
Tim Man Lui, Sze Wing Tsang and Wing Man Leung, Hong Kong Design Institute
Project: U.R. Here
Award: Commended
Robert Topping, Blackpool & The Fylde College
Project: Heritage Connect
Award: Commended
HUMAN BY NATURE
Sponsored by the Eden Project
Design a means of encouraging people to care for their own human microbiome (the community of beneficial microbes that live inside our bodies).
Katy Green, Northumbria University
Project: BabyBiome, a product (special blanket for babies born by Caesarean) and campaign designed to help people better understand how to nurture a healthy human microbiome from birth.
Award: Joint winner of the paid internship at the Eden Project and featured in 'Invisible You - the Human Microbiome' exhibition at the Eden Project
James Washington, Buckinghamshire University
Project: Inner Garden, an all-encompassing health brand that aims to help people reshape the body's internal flora back to a more natural state and teaches users about healthy lifestyle changes.
Award: Joint winner of the paid internship at the Eden Project and featured in 'Invisible You - the Human Microbiome' exhibition at the Eden Project
Commended projects
Liang Huang, London College of Communication (University of the Arts London)
Project: Hello!
Award: Highly Commended
Robert Wylie and Timothy O’Sullivan, National College of Art and Design (Ireland)
Project: GloGro
Award: Highly Commended