BioDesign Studio

Precious Plastic is a combination of people, machines, platforms, and knowledge to create an alternative global recycling system. In selecting this year’s Future Voice Award, I found myself looking at designers who are looking around at how do human beings interact with the planet … In brief, Precious Plastics is trying to solve the horrific environmental crisis of the waste of ocean plastics … what I’m recognizing is tens of thousands of individuals around the world who are bringing out their own Interaction Designer … addressing some of the most problematic carnages that come from how we live on this world. – Dan Makoski, Interaction Awards Jury Chair

Airline meals have remained largely unchanged for decades. A 10cm cube is about to rewrite the rulebook – and give new meaning to the phrase “a square meal.” No longer will passengers be stuck behind the pull-down tray, unable to use their laptop, or get up to stretch their legs – and no longer will they be faced with a meal that feels uninspired. The Cube is at the center of SAS’ new onboard dining ­experience for short- and medium-haul flights – and it delivers what customers want, in a modern and practical way.

‍We designed and prototyped a pair of hardware-integrated cabinets: one cabinet to scan in objects people submit and one cabinet to display that scanned object through holographic projection.

In 2010, airlines were disappointing customers even while they were posting profits. It was clear that something needed to change. Armed with the insight that travel can be complicated, but the tools shouldn’t be, Delta set out to transform the way people experience flying.

People are increasingly interested in sustainable lifestyles and urban community gardening to grow their own food, but the challenges in maintaining these spaces include the limited time and skills for beginning gardeners, and the lack of organization to coordinate community gardening efforts. There are many advances in computer vision and AI technologies that can be used in agriculture. We see an opportunity for AI technologies to solve problems facing framers such as climate change, yield-reducing pests and weed infestations, and to speculate on autonomous systems that can help urban farmers manage and care for their gardens. In collaboration between communication design and industrial design students, GardenSpace and Eden were proposed as conceptual solutions to this problem.

While typically not represented by keepsakes, memories of food are some of my strongest. Last year I tried to bring a feeling of comfort back to the isolated existence I experienced in America in the midst of a global pandemic, through food and cooking. Working with spices common in my family’s recipes and incorporating them into a textile allowed me to capture the comfort of scent; just the smell of a spice can trigger fond, powerful memories and transport you to a specific place and time. As a textile designer, I used food and sensorial memories to make home almost palpable- within reach. Through the magic of fragrance, I not only wanted to invite people to experience the warmth of my kitchen, but wanted to design a fabric that they could take, easily transport and use in their own spaces to comfort themselves when they felt isolated. Woven on the Jacquard Loom, Aromatics is an amalgamation of technology and handiwork. The textile is filled with spices commonly used in my family's Indian recipes. Designed with a complex woven structure to form a transparent 3-D gauze weave, pockets are woven in to the fabric that can be filled. Aromatics was made to be hung on a wall with the intention to fill up a space with warmth and envelope it in the aroma of spices. Interactive, sensorial and comforting- This textile is the materialisation of nostalgia through food.

During their treatment, many child cancer patients are isolated for medical reasons. During this period, they often feel quite well, and are very willing to play and to make contact with peers, but because they are not allowed to leave their rooms, they have no way to do so. Direct contact and play with peers is crucial for normal social development, but in some cases, isolation can take up to 4 months, which roughly disrupts this normal social development.

Upstyle is an image-assisted text-to-image AI tool that empowers users to design fashion pieces with greater precision. By leveraging the GenAI power, users can conveniently discover and generate fashion styles from a well-organized archive and the trained AI model, which eliminates common user hassles like extensive browsing, downloading, and uploading efforts. Upstyle, has the potential to revolutionize sustainable fashion design by creating a streamlined circular ecosystem focused on smooth and cost- effective customization processes.

Behind the glamour and entertainment of live events there is always a production crew working fast to manage multiple people and data points in an often linear and disconnected environment. Seeing the big picture is difficult, and a lot of hours of manual labor are required to keep track of everything. Balls get dropped, errors get made, and work that needs to be accurate, fast, and on time, eventually turns into a debacle.

LEGO Life of George combines creative LEGO building with app games for your smartphone. This unique combination of physical building and digital games is part of an emerging new toy category called App Toys. Life of George is a visionary example of LEGO's mission to inspire the builders of tomorrow by inventing the future of play. The bricks included in the set are the good old LEGO bricks, which have not changed for the past 50 years but continue to remain relevant to kids in this new combination with the latest smartphone technology