REFURBISHMENT & TRANSFORMATION
A four year collaborative project with 30 multisectoral partners across London, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Helsinki region. Focus is in the areas of:
· Demolition and reuse
· Refurbishment and transformation
· Principles for designing new circular buildings and future developments
The project also explores city-wide systems:
· Governance and planning
· Material and data flows
· Training and knowledge sharing.
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Funded by the EU - H2020 scheme.
DISTRIBUTED DECISION
MAKING IN RETROFIT
This project aims to decrease uncertainty in designing retrofit solutions for low-rise domestic dwellings, with a focus on risk factor (starting with energy and costs).
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Funded by the Alan Turing Institute.
Q-BOT LTD WINS THE
QUEEN’S AWARD
London, April 21st – Q-Bot has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. Q-Bot is very proud to receive such a prestigious accolade and be recognised for business excellence, innovative thinking and cutting-edge technology alongside the esteemed range of past and present winners. Q-Bot will be celebrating receiving the award at a royal reception for winners later this year.
LIGHTWEIGHTING
Evaluations of future aircraft technologies and alternative fuels, to identify feasible technology and energy vector combinations for future inter-continental 300-passenger aircraft, towards the goal of sustainable aviation.
Evaluation of aircraft technology and energy vector combinations with respect to their potential to reduce aviation GHG emissions on a lifecycle basis.
Operational cost analysis for different energy vectors.
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Funded by the President’s Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement..
PLASTIC REMOVAL FROM RIVERS
· Turbo-machinery system to collect micro/macro plastics to filter river and ocean flows.
· Bare, ducted and open centre tidal turbine research.
· Research arising from IDE project.
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Funding by Innovate UK.
ANTI-MICROBIAL SURFACES
Health Protection Unit (HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR):
· Anti-microbial surface research.
· Stakeholder behaviours.
· Product design.
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Funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
DESIGN THINKING FOR SME
· Exploration
· Empathy
· Experimentation
· Exploitation
BEIS Follow-on in discussion with Tenshi and Pelin Demirel
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Funded by Innovate UK & the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
PATENT INSPIRED INNOVATION
What is potential requirement?
· Upper/parallel level of knowledge (hypernym/synonym, not arbitrary)
How to tap potential requirement?
· Exactly what knowledge graphs can do: logistic reasoning.
Why choose ICP number?
· With defined “section”, “class”, “subclass”, ”main group”, abundant knowledge and already clustered well with relationship, just need effective organisation in KG.
Ongoing case study: Airplane wings
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Funded by the China Scholarship Council.
VISUAL THINKING
· Visualising Ideas
· Visualising thoughts
· Machine learning
· 64x64 pixel
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Funded by the Data Science Institute.
TECH TOYS
The use of boundary objects in design thinking for a teenage classroom.
Aim – An intervention study using LEGO Education, Meccano & K’nex intends to investigate whether using tech toys within a design thinking process that promotes engagement and creativity, improves outcomes.
Hypotheses – Do the use of boundary objects enhance engagement & creativity in terms of number of skills used for a purposeful outcome (use) and improvement in performance (grades)? Do the use of boundary objects (tech toys) promote knowledge development (Learning outcomes ), knowledge transfer (Application outcomes ) within STEAM disciplines and Non-STEAM?
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Funded by the Saudi Scholarship.
WORDS TO LIFE
MIT Press Essay
This essay explores the blurring of what originates from a human and that from other mediums in a world where co-creation is becoming the norm.
From knowledge to new knowledge and new creations enabled by a fusion of human thought, memory and inventiveness intertwined – and now let loose in the form of learning algorithms that the originators barely recognise or comprehend.
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Funded by the MIT Press.
SUPERFORM DAY CHALLENGE
Superform is an Innovation Design Engineering module, which implements an approach that aims at nurturing an explorative spirit and experimenting methods of developing new forms and new functionalities through making.