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Loughboroughs success in design competition continues
Posted on 22/05/2008
J. Milton
Two Design and Technology finalists from Loughborough University have been awarded top prizes at this year’s RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Design Direction Awards.
Robert Curtis received the RSA Fellows Award of £1,000 for his design called ‘Safuse’ an infusion pump system for hospitals which, through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, aims to lower the risk of tampering and reduce the occurrence of user error during the drug administration process.
Jonathan Fenton received the Mark Wilkinson Designers Award of £3,500 for ‘Bio-Pod’, an air-tight kitchen-top storage vessel that utilises vacuum ionisation to delay the decomposition of food waste and thereby reduce unpleasant smells and health hazards in the home.
Two other students, Robert Taylor and Lauren Whitby, were given formal commendations for their work. Robert’s design, ‘Gluco-Buddy’, allows the parents of a diabetic child, or even the child itself, to monitor their blood sugar levels day or night. Lauren’s idea, the ‘Floating Mushroom Garden’, was devised to provide farmers in Budikote, India, with stable crop production during periods of extreme climate conditions, such as monsoons and droughts, and thereby afford them financial security.
The work of a fifth Loughborough student, Jason Kline, was also shortlisted at the awards.
The RSA highlights the best of British and European design. The Design Directions Awards, launched in 2003, are the RSA’s student awards scheme that challenges young designers to respond to projects with a strong social context and intend for them to question the role of the designer in the modern world.
“Yet again our students have excelled themselves in the RSA competition,” said Paul Wormald, a lecturer in Loughborough’s Department of Design and Technology. “The range of successful projects is a clear demonstration of the highly innovative, creative and professional nature of the Industrial Design and Technology students in the Department.”
The students’ designs will be among hundreds featured at Loughborough University’s forthcoming Industrial Design and Technology degree show, entitled Ideation, which will take place on the University campus from 13 to 16 June.