REAL FICTION IN VIENNA
Fiona Raby recently appointed Professor of Industrial Design at University of Applied Arts Vienna is hosting a series of presentations and conversations about design process and future titled REAL FICTION first session was with Konstantin Grcic & Eva Rucki (Troika) then with Rosario Hurtado (El Ultimo Grito) & Daniel Charny and final session with Clive Van Heerden (VHM Design Futures/Philips Design Probes) & James Auger (Auger Loizeau). Among the lively bright audience were Fidel Peugeot (Walking Chair), Christine Schwaiger, Tulga Beyerle (Vienna Design week), Hermann Weizenegger and Bjorn Franke.
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DESIGN THINKING AT SMIT 2011 MEDICAL INNOVATION CONFERENCE

The 23rd International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT), chaired by the innovative surgeon Amir Szold invited a keynote on Design Thinking and how to work with designers. The talk by Daniel Charny reviewed the development of the profession of industrial design as a strategic practice suggesting to the inventors, engineers and medical innovation leaders to integrate design and designers from the very early stages of their projects. The talk also presented recent ground breaking work from the Helen Hamlyn Design Centre.

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RCA PLATFORM10 GRADUATES 2011 NEW WORK PART 2

Four more projects by Design Products students from the group working with Roberto Feo and Daniel Charny include: QR U? a project about exploring and controlling online identity by Thorunn Arnadottir ; Fast assembly studio furniture bracket system by Thomas Hatfield; From Here For Here local materials for local product, pencil making mini factory for the Royal College of Art students by Ariane Prin and Lightweight trestles and heavyweight coat-hangers by Benjamin Whistle (Images on their way).

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RCA PLATFORM10 GRADUATES 2011 NEW WORK PART 1

Design Products students of Roberto Feo and Daniel Charny presented diverse and progressive work in their recent degree show. The 2011 show was very well received, but what will the next steps be for these promising people and their intriguing projects?

This years work included: two light construction furniture systems and folding boat (in collaboration with Arno Mathias) by Max Frommeld; an interactive communication project for people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions to play, explore and express feelings by Lingjing Yin; a set of whimsical Stacking Vessels made with traditional and experimental techniques and a project in Processed Paper, by Pia Wusterman; a sustainable Make Your Own shoes kit and open source Make Your Own chair by James Tooze. More projects in next post.

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PARLIAMENT OF OWLS TRIAL PROGRAMME

First round of trials for the live online masterclasses completed, learnt much and lots to look forward to. The first round of masters to brave the new format included: Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh/Sugru , Simon Waterfall/FrayConny Freyer/TroikaAsa Bruno/Ron Arad Architects. We are working on the next set of classes that will be available for the autumn season.

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GLOBAL STORY AND THE LOCAL STORY TELLER

Konstfack university college of arts, crafts and design is reflecting on locality in a global design and art world. Daniel Charny will be among a group of panelists invited by Ivar Björkman, President of Konstfack since 2003 to take part in a public round table discussion about the role of geographical location in art, craft and design. It’s a pertinent question for design and art education especially in these times when there is increasing pressure by governing bodies and students alike to demonstrate value. Among the panelists are: Liesbeth den Besten, Dan Fern, Søren Grammel, Davide Quadrio, LouiseSchouwenberg, Annika von Taube and Marco Velardi.

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THE BOOCKLUB at RCA PLATFORM10 2011

This year Roberto Feo and Daniel Charny set Platform 10′s underlying theme as The BookClub. After reading excerpts from: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore; Writings by Vilém Flusser; Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard; Species of Spaces and other stories by George Perec; Ubik by Philip K Dick; Cultural Resistance (Editor Michel Ducombe) by Ricardo Dominguez; Password by Jean Baudrillard; and in particular Losing Blue by Haruki Murakami and The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, the first and second year MA students embarked on a project called “A future of…” and so far some exciting ideas looking into the future of self diagnostics, makers guilds, insomnia and lighting in public spaces to name a few.(images by Roberto Feo from the start of year presentation)

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RCA PLATFORM 10 2010 GRADUATES NEW WORK PART TWO
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Royal College of Art graduates in Design Products, students of Roberto Feo and Daniel Charny
in Platform 10 presented diverse and progressive work in the degree show of 2010. The show was well received, but what will the next step be for these promising starts?
Here are some further projects: pulp furniture experiments by Iain Howlett ; Florie Salnot‘s Saharawis plastic bottle project, Hina Thibaud’s watch and see project and George Fereday compressed earth coffin.
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ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART GRADUATES NEW WORK
RCA graduates in Design Products, students of Roberto Feo and Daniel Charny
presented diverse and progressive work in the degree show of 2010. The show was well received, but what will the next step be for these promising starts?

Here are some of the projects: a Compost Distiller by Lisa Johansson, a hair fidgeting substitute
from a series of therapeutic elements by Billur Turan and furniture constructions by David Amar .

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DESIGN MASTER CLASS AT THE BARBICAN

A two days workshop led Daniel Charny and Tord Boontje of the Royal College of Art provided an opportunity for participants to work intensively on design processes. This one off workshop was part of the events and education programme around Ron Arad’s exhibition Restless at the Barbican.

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