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Gravity Sketch’s radical innovation is attracting attention in the medical field.

RCA to launch ground-breaking design innovations

DUBAI, October 21, 2014

The London-based Royal College of Art (RCA) will launch three groundbreaking projects featuring some of the world’s most promising new technologies at the upcoming Downtown Design event in Dubai, UAE.

The Middle East’s leading platform for original design, Downtown Design will run from October 28 to 31 at The Venue, Downtown Dubai.

The theme for this year is “Original Design’ ; innovation is central to the theme and the RCA exhibition introduces fair-goers to cutting-edge, pioneering concepts that have yet to go into production highlighting the importance of design thinking to breakthrough discoveries, said the organisers.

The RCA, long recognised as the world’s most influential post-graduate art and design institution, which has produced many of the best-known contemporary names across multiple disciplines including Sir James Dyson, Tracey Emin and David Hockney, has chosen Downtown Design to premiere three ground-breaking projects to the region: Silk Leaf, Stay Plastic and Gravity Sketch.

In addition to the exhibition, the RCA’s head of the Interior Design Programme and one of the UK’s leading designers, Ab Rogers will be a headline speaker at Downtown Design’s talk series programme that will run alongside the exhibition.

“Today, we are experiencing the integration of technology with design to produce breakthroughs that have far-reaching implications. Even within traditional design disciplines, we are far more attuned to interconnectivity. In my field, for example, interior design influences and communicates with the architectural exterior of space in a way that is far more meaningful than ever before,” remarked Rogers.

Each of the three projects has the potential to revolutionise the broader design industry and also have fascinating transferable applications into the medical and bio-physics fields.

Silk Leaf

Made from an innovative synthetic leaf, Silk Leaf is revolutionary technology that mimics the natural process of photosynthesis, producing oxygen when provided with light and water –just as a natural leaf would.

This technology enables breakthroughs in vital areas such as the purification of the air in urban environments and the generation of oxygen in spaceships.

Gravity Sketch

Gravity Sketch is a device that uses augmented reality to provide designers and architects with an extraordinary tool that allows them to view their drawing in 3D.

Redefining the traditional process of designing a building, the tool allows drawings to be transformed and amplified with volume, which can be seen through a pair of augmented reality glasses.

Gravity Sketch’s radical innovation is attracting attention in the medical field, where its bioengineering applications are currently being explored, including surgeries, which will allow physicians to sketch directly in the area of the human body which requires attention.

Stay Plastic

Using emerging techniques in 3D printing, the third project, Stay Plastic, investigates an architecture completely built from recycled plastic and has produced a prototype housing project made from 100 per cent recycled plastic.

The project study also includes a fascinating transformation of the Eastern Riverside Recycling Centre on the banks of the River Thames, in London, UK.

"Besides opening new horizons in the way we view the architectural process, Stay Plastic offers an alternative solution for recycling the plastic waste that contaminates 88 per cent of the ocean’s surface, according to recent studies," explained Rogers.

The RCA exhibit will be one of the innovation initiatives that are this year taking centre stage at Downtown Design, as part of the fair’s effort to highlight new talent and technologies and highlight Dubai’s role as a global hub for innovation and creativity, he added.-TradeArabia News Service




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