Exploring Curious Materials
We invited a range of designers, architects, engineers and makers looking for new materials to incorporate into their practice. Participants got hands-on with conductive and thermochromic inks, low-melt and impact protection polymers and shape-memory metals.
This afternoon event, organized in collaboration with Brunel’s Human Centred Design Institute, offered a chance to experiment and prototype with a range of unusual but commercially available materials. Guests were also introduced to the material at the heart of the Light.Touch.Matters research project: a flexible OLED and piezoelectric combination that responds to touch with luminescence. In a group discussion, we learnt more about the behavior, potential and limitations of these materials and explored how they might inform design practice.
Exploring Curious Materials
We invited a range of designers, architects, engineers and makers looking for new materials to incorporate into their practice. Participants got hands-on with conductive and thermochromic inks, low-melt and impact protection polymers and shape-memory metals.
This afternoon event, organized in collaboration with Brunel’s Human Centred Design Institute, offered a chance to experiment and prototype with a range of unusual but commercially available materials. Guests were also introduced to the material at the heart of the Light.Touch.Matters research project: a flexible OLED and piezoelectric combination that responds to touch with luminescence. In a group discussion, we learnt more about the behavior, potential and limitations of these materials and explored how they might inform design practice.