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good evening everyone I'm Rebecca Ford head of the design program here at the RSA and first of all a very warm and literally warm welcome to tonight's event we get to celebrate the 2018 RSA student design horde winners and to hear from a past winner about his own journey since winning an award as a student but before we begin please make sure that your mobile phones are switched to silent we're live-streaming tonight so hello and welcome to all of our web viewers and a reminder that hashtag for tonight's event is RSA design and our handle is at RSA designers if you want to get involved in the conversation on Twitter so we have an exciting evening ahead with a keynote talk buying RSA student design award alumnus Clive benya who's director of service design at Barclays after that Rowan Conway director of innovation here at the RSA will present this year's awards and I'll say a few closing remarks at the end before we all head downstairs and to a drinks reception two toasts our 2018 winners but first I'll provide some brief context on the RSA student design awards and this year's program and actually first I'll start by saying a little bit about my own background I didn't train as a designer at university I did social anthropology and in the past decade I've been on a real journey in my own understanding of design if you go back to the basics of what constitutes design everything man-made has been designed you know from this building with chairs you're sitting on to your transport experience getting here today so the question with everything around us is how well has it been designed but I think I along with probably the majority of people out there for a long time only really considered this in the context of aesthetics consumables and it was only through my early career working at an innovation agency and then coming to work at the RSA that I've realized that good design can go so much further than that it's about problem-solving and systems thinking and ultimately improving people's lives and the world around us and that's what we mean when we talk about design for social impacts at the RSA and that's what the RSA students sign Awards is empowering emerging designers to do the RSA student design awards is global curriculum and competition for higher education students and recent graduates that challenges them to tackle pressing social environmental and economic issues through Design Thinking and as the issues that we face across these different realms are more complex and systemic then than ever before from health crises and economic insecurity to climate change yeah we really need to innovate to survive and flourish and the faster human-centered iterative way of working that a design approach offers can play a really crucial role in this and at the RSA we believe that design thinking should have a wider and more impactful role across society and Industry and government so it's really exciting to see so many instances of Design Thinking being applied as an agent for social and economic innovation in the world to date and from the designers the helix Center in London that marries NHS hospital who are working with clinicians on the frontline inside the hospital to improve healthcare outcomes to the circular economy collab that's investigating circular business models and opportunities and we do hear time and time again that irrespective of the competition outcomes through the process of tackling an RSA student Design Awards brief participants think differently about how they can use their design skills in the world and the potential career avenues that are available to them so the program is focused around a set of competition briefs and this year we had eight the topics included designing ways to improve well-being in the workplace enable better quality sleep and apply circular design principles to design out waste in toys this was also the fourth year of a special moving pictures category which draws audio clips from the RSA's public events program and our students to illuminate this audio through animation you'll shortly be hearing more about all of this year's briefs and of course the winning responses now as many of you will know the RSA is an independent charity and we work really closely with a huge range of cross-sector partners and sponsors to co-develop our design briefs the entire program is made possible by the support of these organizations who share our belief that good design can play a more impactful role in the world we are so proud to be working with all of them and to have so many representatives from these organizations here in the audience tonight I'd like to just say a massive thank you and to all of you we really couldn't do it without you so once the briefs have launched we do a lot of outreach and engagement work to help colleges and universities embed them in the curricula and we support participants directly through workshops and online toolkits and over the past year we delivered briefing sessions at 39 colleges and universities and ran to workshop series across the UK designing for behavior change series and partnership with shift design and in inclusive design series in partnership with Blanco and the kitchen Education Trust and on to the competition this year we received 711 entries from 27 countries and 118 universities around the world with a hundred and thirty three different courses represented we actually have a few of our international winners here tonight from Canada Italy Slovenia and Austria so I'd like to extend an extra-special welcome to them lastly it's worth mentioning that the RSA student design awards has now been running for a whopping ninety four years so the competition really does have an incredible legacy behind it not least in terms of the thousands of winning people and solutions that have over the years gone on to do all sorts of amazing things and have a huge impact in the world our class of 2018 will join a remarkable network of alumni across the globe and spanning different generations disciplines and sectors and we eagerly anticipate the things that they will go on to do so now I'd like to introduce our speakers this evening announcing the awards tonight I am delighted to introduce my colleague Rowan Conway who's director of innovation and development here at the RSA Rowan has over 20 years experience in action research and engagement with communities businesses and government bodies she actually trained as a designer at University then went on to become a business journalist and editor and then became a facilitator and engagement specialist in 2005 with a specific focus on community involvement and participation between 2006 and 2011 Rowan designed and oversaw community engagement for the London 2012 Olympics working with the host boroughs and the mayor of London in the planning process for the Olympic Park today she ensures that the RSA is undertaking rigorous profile raising and influential research and innovation projects and our keynote speaker tonight is Clive Grenier who won an RSA student design award in 1982 Clive is now director of service design at Barclays Bank where his team combines data customer insights and research with creative design methodology to transform customer service experiences Clive has worked in technology as a design expert for Cisco and as a design consultant for I do both in the US and in the UK and he was the founder of a design company called tangerine along with Jonathan Ive RDI who's now chief design officer at Apple and who incidentally has also passed RSA student design gardener Clive graduated from Central Saint Martin's in London and is honorary professor at Glasgow School of Art and a visiting tutor on the service design course at the Royal College of Art he was a trustee of the RSA from 2010 to 2016 and remains an active RSA fellow advisor on design activity and critical friend to the RSA student design Awards Clive says I agree with Bill Moggridge that there is little that is not touched by the design process and I work to ensure that the world gets designed to work easily and beautifully with design thinking providing emotional and functional delight please join me in welcoming live to the stage well it is a excuse me huge pleasure to be here tonight on what I usually think of as my favorite day of the year the year we get to award the student design award winners and see their most amazing work that to me is true inspiration many times I've been sitting down there looking at designers who've inspired me last year David Constantine Richard Hayworth from Apple we've had a bunch of amazing people here so I feel very privileged and honored to be here I've noticed that most people standing here take you through their life step by step and I might do that occasionally but I'd like to actually also find some of those big themes those big inspirations things that have have stimulated me and I'd like to share those with you especially with with the future hero designers my future heroes if you like you were here winning their awards tonight and it really has been you know quite a journey a journey where I've learned something every single day starting with a company like I do even the precursor to idea who actually in California and and learning about how design was not just about product that could be about interaction design starting my own company tangerine is Rebecca mentioned with with Johnny I've who's now clearly much more famous and wealthy and I'm not bitter at all I had and then I really got stuck with the square logo thing I did the design Council which was you know a fabless way to learn how to talk about design to non designers and then at orange if you remember them now EE the square thing really who taught me how to be digital at the world of customer experience and eventually eventually services are I found the elliptical template and I could put it on an angle and I work with a truly international company looking wrong with markets across Europe Asia and and the u.s. an amazing thing to learn about and a technology company that is in the plumbing of the Internet and to learn how design can help a business help another business help its customer so it's been a really incredible journey and I really want to tell you bits about it to show you the opportunities that will come to you as a designer and finally of course I end up with the with the turkey or the Eagle as it really is a place I really did expect over B Barclays so let's go right back to the beginning and one of the first moments of epiphany that I had as a designer design is not an option and the first person to really help me get that was as Rebecca mentioned my first boss Bill Moggridge one of the founding partners of of IDEO one of the world's most successful companies and he said sorry designs most successful companies he said that few people think about it or are aware of it but there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere and that was a big moment for me I thought wow that's that's quite a thought actually that means that you know every single thing around us somebody has considered it they've made a decision about materials about cost about processes whether it's going to be beautiful or not it has been designed not necessarily consciously you know some people who make design decisions do them for reasons of it's a cost or business efficiency or pleasing their boss and what they perhaps don't fully understand is the impact that's gonna have on people I think Bill taught me to understand that and when he said nothing made by human beings that was a very product design well but now the things that are made by humans are intangible technology experiences services and that's where design has gone has gone but there are still many many decisions made by people who are not necessarily designers they're not working on design projects but they have a big impact and that's why I think we need to we need to understand that so where do we start with design what are the ingredients if you like a design for me well it absolutely starts with people it's about you if we were only designing for machines then you wouldn't need design as you might argue but I really like the fact that at the very core any design activity thought are the people you're doing it for not me the designer not you designer the people who are actually the recipients of our design and I really like people and I really like these people particularly because they're a bit older and these are people that I discovered in the village or town rather of al-nura in in the Netherlands about half an hour east of Amsterdam on a holder one of those places where you know you reclaim the land and it takes quite a long time like 20 years or something for the land to be accessible and then in the 1970s a whole load of people go often it's like the Wild West and they build their houses and they build businesses and communities and then they start getting old they've been there a long time and then the but local authority thinks how can we deliver services in a new way we've got technology so I worked with the local authority there and it was very quickly apparent that nobody had any idea or they certainly hadn't asked the people who were actually there how did they want their life to be lead to be led what was important to them so I googled old people in our mirror and this is what I got okay cameraman I'm gonna walk about now you have a patate there the guy in the Hat still clearly doing the dope dealing he's always done you have next to him it's quite a it's quite a dark photograph but that's a dating agency that guys you know poppy in his 80s and he's still going strong the guy in the middle is laughing not dying we have yes we have grumpy people of course yes we have people using technology as a recreation in their community home wow what a rich and diverse bunch of people that turned out to be that changed their opinion and apparently there are cardboard cutouts of the personas that we developed from from the research we did in our mirror and they're still in the Town Hall and when they want to change the traffic or put up a new Town Hall they'll ask Gertrude and I'll remember their other names you know they put them in their head and think how they're going to react to this so at the core of design it is people not persons but people and the other great feature of design that I think is so essential it's a two party really if I'm recruiting anybody I want to know are they courageous and are they curious because curiosity I think is absolutely absolutely essential part of design and my favorite example of that it's a story I've told many times so apologies if anyone's heard it before but it's just a good story it's perfect that curiosity was important to Terminal five when they were developing a huge infrastructure project they were meant to last 40 or 50 years and there were lots of trends and forecasting and foresight to help them be prepared for that future one of those trends was that people were getting older so they follow Oh people around he throw the existing terminals to understand what their needs might be to factor them into the design of a terminal and they found that just about everybody who was old went to the toilet a lot not that surprising I suppose and then weirdly because this research was actually done by some designers the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlin design team they actually went into the toilet and there they found people not going to the toilets but listening to the announcements it was the one place where they could get away from the hubbub in their nervousness and anxiety of missing their flight and actually listen to when their flight was called so the answer was yes have enough toilets but also have a better sound system have quiet places you can go and be calm and wait for your flights here and see with good signage so this for me is a huge lesson and all the designers I work with the lesson is you must go into the toilets of life to find out what is really going on because there will be the innovation the nub of the diamond that will give you your fantastic piece of design and curiosity possibly got me where I am because in my RS a student design award project office was in 1982 the the brief then was to design electronic street furniture they were very different briefs in those days talking about tech push put some electronics on the street find a reason to do that so we were all looking around and I had some kind of user scenario and I didn't know that you called it I used a scenario it was something to do with being drunk or a tourist in the middle of London and trying to get home how could we create something and I went to London Transport and and said can I talk to you about this what can can you help me with my project for the RSA and I asked them did they have any data did they know where the buses were for example and they said oh yeah yeah we tracked all the buses I said you you track all the buses yeah yeah so so you know where the buses are but you don't tell the passengers where the buses are do you think you could could you actually pull it up through the street put some stuff out put an electronic sign on my car of voting bus stop that I designed but put a sign that's tells people and overcomes that psychology of do I know if the bus is 30 seconds away or 15 minutes away and that's what's happened I'm not taking credit for that but on the other hand it was part of that conversation where the curiosity they're asking and perhaps the courage to us them got us to a solution and it won't meet the RC sta award thank you very much I got a pebble just now about I haven't had one before they didn't have them in my day and and so coming from that curiosity hopefully having the courage to move forward this is about my particular journey I'm going to go through it pretty fast more to show you the opportunities that are available is it's been a ridiculous design life I've had but what's been interesting is that the methodologies the techniques of design seem to have travelled to every different crazy thing thing I've done so I've worked I've done very small things for very big companies my very first job is designing car radios for Ford and it was all about going to digital where before a car radio had a volume control and a tuning knob and a redline an FM and medium-wave then it went digital and it had 25 buttons and nobody knew what they were and that's been the story of my life digital has meant that nobody knows how to use anything even though it gives you all those wonderful features so I ended up designing car radios and been very worried about very long American women's nails and things like that and then ended up with a separate team designing the vent in the Ford Focus to be easy to use and understand a very strange job and also also put trying to bring innovation to a car when the only innovation that the the company could think of was yet another cup holder and there's about 20 or most American cars I've done projects of very tiny companies a TV antenna company in Norfolk that for caravans and boats and trying to make something that added value to that company that made their product just look good and work well I've done future projects for very big companies this was the first project we did at tangerine for apple with Johnny eyes this was my concept the harley-davidson as I called it which was designed for super efficient text input for people in science laboratories and and libraries and things like that but you know what an amazing opportunity to help Apple think of the future I've worked for an upcoming brand Samsung nobody knew Samsung at the time seems hard to believe but they had the wisdom to invest in a design team in the UK and the fantastic design team that I managed to put together design products that put it on the front of Businessweek and that's you know absolutely free advertising from designing amazing products and I'm very proud of that I've taken a brand that does things very fast McLaren Formula One team and designed something that stands absolutely still and how do you get the DNA of that brand in a and an object that just sits there how do you believe that oil might booze out of that not that that would be a very nice thing how do you mate how do you use the materials and the composites capabilities of their manufacturers to make something beautiful it's the back of the speaker by the way suddenly realized you might think that's the tiny speaker so these have been amazing challenges and then given a platform to talk about design of the design counts talk about design to non designers this is really important you know it's easy talking to the designers in the audience you get it we have to talk about design to others and in the design council running a project that took designers into companies from one day and change their lives and this is being done to thousands of companies and it gave the Design Council that amazing proof point every one pound you invest in design you can expect 20 and increased revenues there's the proof you ever need that design pace working with an amazing brand like orange who were able to articulate perfectly the proposition of technology I have email in the palm of my hand the only problem was this is what delivered it one of the worst and ugliest devices have been made but that's when I realized technology was amazing but it needed design if you didn't have fantastic design then technology was wasted and that of course was completely proven by Steve Jobs and Johnnie Ivan I've worked with absolute laboratory core technology to create in this case a digital fashion mirror three 3d cameras that look at you allow you to swipe in John Lewis through the whole of their online garment catalog and then press a button and ping you're seeing yourself with that garment on and you can send an email home then awful lot of emails are bloated addresses as well but um but it was that again that point of how can you harness the power of the Internet and they and the the physical environment as well a big challenge for retailers right now how can you do both things in one place and then the journey so far has taken me to Berkeley it's a place where I absolutely would never have thought when I when I didn't receive my pebble but I received my scroll from the RSA I would never have believed for one moment that I would be at a bank that's all all Barclays and Here I am sitting in Canary Wharf the 80s version of the future and I'm working with behavioral scientists on how can we help people understand money better how can we help them achieve their goals how can we help them get to the end of the month how can we help vulnerable customers get control of their lives some really interesting things how can we help people invest in a sensible way that doesn't doesn't go crazy and ruin their lives and you suddenly realized there's some really big life stuff in a bank and here we are as designers I run a service design team and we are working in Barty's to make their stuff better and along the way we do some amazing jobs as well probably the weirdest job I ever did this is working with our security team now banks you may know banks government's the attempt from hackers from activists from from everybody in the world there are huge organizations trying to bring banks down to on the break-in trying to break our systems every day and banks are actually really good at fighting that and they know how to keep that safe but it's an ongoing effort and our tech team came up with a brilliant solution to monitor all the events all the attacks that are coming in and they did an eight-week sprint and they invited me along they thought I could help them and it was a wonderful presentation and at the end of it I said so where is it then what have you done and they said oh well what do you mean what have we done well where's the output of your fantastic technology system when I said oh it's an email it's great an email well I said not only know it's 15,000 emails a day that come out from this front sztyc system a new something you realized there's no way we can compute we can be clever but we can't see that so this job was really about data visualization how can go right back to the core visual design and create something that the chairman that the chief executive that a business head that the person trying to sort of investigate that breach of security or the person trying to do it's something they can understand in use so usability digital design and I think also it's pretty beautiful as well so we brought it all together and I think the most unexpected way and another unexpected project at Barclays out of school really was working for Department of Work and Pensions and the Cabinet Office who came to us because they wanted to understand how they could persuade the pension industry to share their pension data so we all start young and get older and we all think we've saved enough and we never have and people don't understand that they they're not really in control there's a pension crisis so we wanted to do something about that collectively so we work to develop a prototype of something that would allow you to press a button and share all the data around the industry so that you could see all your pensions Department of Work and Pensions said that on average you have 11 when you retire and you probably lost five of them so this was important it is important to people and we created a beautiful prototype we showed it to people and they reacted very emotionally when they realized what this meant and when we showed the pension industry they were ashamed I think is probably the only word to use and they realized that they needed to do this they needed to open their data up and again I'm incredibly proud to say that next year 2019 there will be a pension dashboard and hopefully you'll press the button and your your pension will be there and you can retire happy or start saving happily so all through this there's a few more points I want to bring out before we finish but one of the key points about design that they do not teach you at design school I'm sorry to say is resilience because actually nobody wants design what do you mean nobody wants design well actually really people don't want design what they want to do is they want to have an idea and deliver it as fast as they can and that's what a lot of people do they see a problem they say I don't click I'm brilliant I've got an idea I'm gonna build it do you know what happens it's nearly always wrong and it's nearly always really expensive to put it right afterwards so you talk to people in product develop and they say okay actually what we need to do so we need to start thinking broadly in the concept stage and we need to focus in on delivery so that we we actually think of a few more concepts before we go and this to me is looking a bit more like design actually but then out of the design council we kept talking to people and and found out were they really when they finally came to it they admitted they really needed to do that bit before they started designing and delivering they needed to ask themselves what the hell is the problem we're actually trying to solve what is the problem our customer or citizens our people our colleagues our manufacturing team or other business what is the problem they're trying to solve and that's about discovery and this is such a vital component to design and I take this into Barclays and I've taken our management team through this and they get it they never want to design because it takes a little bit more time and occasionally a bit more cost at the beginning of a project when all everybody wants to do is deliver fast but you can deliver fast and then find out you're wrong and spend a lot longer and a lot more money fixing it but this process is really working it's working about ease and it's working across a lot of organisations so I find that very exciting so you need your resilience to put up with the way people will we'll try and persuade you that design isn't needed it is needed and maybe this is a tool that will help you emphasize this bit and you'll get to a better solution but now my journey is sort of much more about inspiring so you know I'm much more about bringing on a team of young designers taking them out to bars and taking embarrassing selfies but it's then really who are now delivering great work and it's more about bringing people into odd places like a bank and getting them to really unleash their creativity and in even more than that I've been incredibly lucky to work at the Royal College of Art it's my first year this is the new first year they really are the designers of the future as you are here tonight and they really will solve big problems they really will go out and change the world every single person get in point of that course and they go to amazing places so this is a very optimistic time for design actually but at the same time there's an element of design that is about humility we never sign our designs we don't actually Johnny I was lucky he gets a credit but I'm not looking for credit I think most designers are not looking for credit but it is about impact and effectiveness and the only quick example I could think of was a project I did where foundations in Arab countries the United Nations they wanted to do a massive they were doing a massive project to bring together economic experts technology to support young arab kids who were coming up with very little hope falen hope of employment so they had an enormous amount of experts trying to work out what to do and it was very sophisticated and very good and at a certain moment somebody said yes but what what is it well actually going to do and then you realize nobody knew that and it was design it wasn't just me it was a brilliant design team and it was the design process that said okay we're going to we're going to work out how an NGO helps the Yemenis Yemeni fishing cooperative improves the quality of their fish and expand their markets we're going to work out how a Moroccan textile company can expand to global markets we're going to help a young girl in Dubai become the journalist she dreams she wants to be by using all that technology and all that stuff but nobody had actually worked out now for me designed to tell that story that's all it did it then gave so many people their mission to go to the countries and roll out you know an enormous project that hopefully is having a big impact but I'm not asking to put my name on it design does not put their name on things like that but we can all sleep better that we know things have now got purpose so that does give me optimism and optimism is something that I think is really really unique to designers and I was reminded that reminded of this by Nick Lyon head of service designer at the Royal College of Art and he was telling me the other day that when he was OBM for 30 years or something you know he was in an incredibly difficult position they were going through a massive transformation and you know the world was failing they had to bring design to mean something other than the case of a computer means something to do his service and consultancy and it was a very stressful time for everybody and he started to get involved with with art schools and the Royal College of Art and when he went there he was blown away he was just so refreshed by the creativity the positivity the that we can do this then we're not going to hold back we're gonna challenge everything we're going to be courageous and we're going to rethink the world and he was so inspired he ended up running the course but I think he's right I think there is an inbuilt optimism that you don't find in many other professions this is a very cynical world it's a very unethical world but optimism for a designer means you always think there's a better way of doing something whatever it is you think how can we do it better this is absolutely critical it's unique to design and optimism gives you ambition and ambition is an amazing thing that we forget about and my favorite example of ambition is is Johnny sir Johnny sir who said when he was very early on in Apple he said our goals are very simple to design and make better products if we can't make something better we don't do it now this is the philosophy of the biggest company in the world they did not set out to be the biggest company in the world they set out to make things better and if they don't they don't do it and that is what works and it's I'm very excited then actually companies are realizing that setting out to be successful usually fails setting out to do the right thing find out what people need what is their job to be done the current management parlance is the way to unlock profitability success adoption citizen access all the things you want to do in the world and to do that the last final sort of attribute of design that I my position as something that's unique and relevant and we must never forget is our radicalism designer has to be radical it has to challenge it has to think beyond you all have to do that and I suspect you've done that in your student design award-winning projects but radicalism is at the heart of design and this I think gives us great hope and I have a slightly unlikely final quote for this but I think we have to remember that you have to be a realist demand the impossible because only then do you start to move us all on and build the solutions in the world we actually want to have it's a huge privilege to talk to you to know it really is and I just want to say thank you especially to the student design award winners for allowing me and the RSA allowing me to come up and share my inspiration and thoughts um I hope that's inspiring and helpful to you as well thank you very much [Applause] Thank You Clive for that bold battlecry it was it was optimistic and ambitious inspiring journey although you could take from it that's your advice is to go into the toilets of life and take embarrassing selfies so I'm not a hundred sensual that's what you want to say but I want to thank you personally as well for helping me along my journey in design at the RSA clive wouldn't say it but he's been an enduring advocate of design and design for social good at the RSA he was an inspiring trustee sponsoring the design program here he's continued to be an advisor and a critical friend to me and I deeply appreciate your resilience and humility in doing such work but welcome to our 2018 winners the designers of the future too to take this forward I want to introduce tonight's award the looking gone sorry I'm being given that's me and moving on to the I wasn't looking that as making the script apologies Rebecca thank you for keeping me on schedule the RFA student designer was is the leading competition for students to apply Design Thinking for positive social impact and I'm delighted to announce today's the award winners this evening the winners we were announcing tonight were selected through a very rigorous two stage judging process where every single piece of work entered is reviewed anonymously by a panel of judges brought together for their expertise around a brief topic a short list of finalists is created and those finalists then meet the judges to pitch their project and discuss their design process winners were chosen after extensive jury deliberations so they really have been put through their paces and earned their right to be here tonight so you should feel very that you have really earned this to be here before I announce the winners I'd like to tell everyone about the awards were handing out to the students these beautiful the awards are designed by Robin Levine who is also an advocate of design here and ending in a very important advisor on design he's a royal designer for industry and longtime friend and supporter at the RSA these awards were inaugurated in 2014 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the RSA student design award program and we continue that tradition tonight Robin designed the ward to commemorate the moment our winners take that big step and start their career as designers for social impact so without further ado I'd like to announce the 2018 RSA student design Award winners when their name is called could I ask the winners to come to the stage and collect their award from Clive so Clive there you go it's always better when Mary's in charge so let's give each winner a short pause as they're walking up to the stage and then I will read out their citation so without further ado you're lining up the winners are for our working well briefed sponsored by NatWest asking students to design a vision and a business case for a way to promote greater well-being when people are at work that will continue contribute to higher productivity and better all mental health we have one winner and the winner is Laura van creakin from Innokin behaving those laura's product flow board was a product intervention that enabled office workers to increase the amount of physical activity and movement they do at work the judges commented that law is design thinking and execution for this project was amazing as was her insight into what motivates people to use products the panel thinks flow bode really attractive to potential manufacturers and they encourage her to take it forward so good luck with that okay in addition students responding to the working world brief were asked to submit a business case for their project and there was a separate judging session for these the business case awards go to and there are a number of them so make space on the stage Alex Mills Casey Hargreaves Liz Merton Breckenridge Katrina shootin and Stephanie Donovan from the University of Waterloo in Canada and they have flown over here but to be here tonight to work as a team to create hungria an online grocery service that delivers to drivers of commercial vehicles the judges commended the team for tapping into a niche market that's largely ignored and were impressed by the combined strength the strength of their business case service design proposal and outstanding pitch as well as their excellent used to research and clear passion for this project so please give them around okay so to our next brief which is sleep matters sponsored by Phillips this brief our students to design a product service or system to improve health and well-being by encouraging or enabling better sleep there are two winners for this brief first up is Emily brown a graduate from law for a university and Sean Roberts a graduate from a Northumbria University for blue an app based product that allows users to write down their negative thoughts before sleep to encourage the drifting of the process the panel applauded Emily and Sean for tackling one of the core causes of sleep loss head on and for the behavioral insights they demonstrated in the interview as well as their brilliantly poetic solution and prototypers give them around and as I said for this brief there were two winners so the second winner was Tara Wilson from the University of Lincoln for the one watch a watch based safety and alerting aid for type 1 diabetes the judges were impressed by Tara's research into the sleep anxiety and deprivation experienced by many type 1 diabetes sufferers this is due to the increased risk of sugar levels crashing and leading to seizures during the night they commended her problem identification the simple elegance of her solution and the excellent storytelling in her proposal so let's give her a round of applause okay and on to the next brief which is called fair play this one is sponsored by the marketing trust with additional support from CI M and Waitrose asking students to design or redesign a consumer toy and its product packaging to eliminate waste using circular design principles there are three winners the first is Shannon Williamson from Sheffield Hallam University Shannon Shallon wins for pali pali a rebranded and repackage repackaged Monopoly board game that educates players on how to be environmentally conscious I want one of these in my house the jury was impressed by Shauna's thoughtful and clever adaptation of the an existing play pattern to introduce circular economy principles in an engaging and interactive way and commended her on her excellent execution the second winner is Helena Cowley from left-brain University for explore this is a toy to encourage children to interact with nature and outdoors through exploration and small world play the judges applauded Helen as primary and secondary research into play patterns which included extensive experience prototyping they loved the fact that explore is in essence a platform for play that extends the life of other toys whilst incorporating the packaging as part of the play experience they also commended her absolutely outstanding presentation so well done Helena and as I say there were three winners for this brief so Ellie Skelton is the third winner from De Montfort University for one toy for life this is a durable scooter a matron recycled aluminium that can be adapted as you grow and used in different ways over time the panel praised Ellie's approach an impressive technical analysis she looked at the whole product lifecycle and compared different manufacturing scenarios to design this intergenerational and closed loop toys toy congratulations okay and on to the fourth brief the hygienic home sponsored by Eureka which asked students to design or redesign a floor cleaning product that will make cleaning easily easier and more effective enabling older people to maintain their independence for longer longer there are two winners to this brief and so the first is Blair Macintosh from Northumbria University for buddy this is a welcome to the stage Blair a past a subtle passive air purifier conveyed with it integrated Hoover which is designed to remain on display in the home for easy access the judges commended Blair's charming beautiful and directional solution and appreciated the attention he paid to well-being aspect in this design and also commented on how impressed they were by Blair's highly engaging pitch so well done and as we as we progress through these four names get harder just to challenge me so our second award goes to John Schwartzman Tino Darrell Lea Joe and Francesco Franz who worked as a team on this project for their Erasmus year at meyneth University in Ireland their product is smart bought a laser directed robot vacuum cleaner which eliminates bending and muscle load the panel applauded their impressive interdisciplinary team working and their excellent research design thinking process and rigorous technical knowledge the judges can see a market opportunity for smart BOTS and encouraged them to take it forwards we're delighted to have John and Tino here and while Francisco could not make it this evening they will ensure she gets her Awards wait you lads good good thank you very much okay so onto brief number five Fair Finance for all again sponsored by NatWest with additional support from NCR which are students to design or redesign a way for people who are financially excluded to be better served by banks and other money management services there are two winners the first the first consortium is Sri Priya and Andrea Bhatia from the Domus Academy in Milan Italy for the well income service a service that offers refugees in Europe digital financial education support and adapt to their changing needs over time the judges were very impressed by Sri Priya and Andrea and by their in-depth and holistic solution which was extremely strong on all the judging criteria and sensitively addressed key challenges around trust through its ambassador model so thank you and the second winner for this brief is Emily George of London's Kingston University for Lyme an offline budgeting system targeted at people at risk of digital exclusion which provides a set of money management tools without the need for an internet connection the judges applauded Emily's clever yet simple offline solution and they commit commented on her impressive design ethos passion and creativity in responding to this brief congratulations okay on to our sixth brief this brief is called each share live is sponsored by the Office for disability issues AEG Symphony Casa bomber Blanco and the kitchen Education Trust with the additional in kind support from the National Innovation Center for aging it our student to design an inclusive and accessible multi-generational kitchen space or kitchen component that works for all ages as well as for disabled and non-disabled family members so that they can prepare cook and serve food entertain engage in hobbies or work and enjoy life together the three winners are tim chapman from the university of nottingham for pan stop an adhesive thermochromic i hope that's how you say it silicon guard for electric electric and induction hobs to boost the confidence of visually impaired users and those with poor mobility the jury commended tim's elegantly simple accessible and cost-effective solution which responds to a massive need solving one of the most dangerous problems in the kitchen they were impressed by his market research commercial acumen and level of professionalism and highly recommend that he pursues pan stop further say congratulations and the second award goes to Norah Costello from the Sligo in Design Institute of Technology in Ireland for carousel a reimagined kitchen space with a motorized system allowing users to adjust counter Heights and relocate modular kitchen kitchen units the panel praised nor is strong user research and iteration process the magic and playfulness evident in her approach and her clear passion for designing accessible but non stigmatizing solutions congratulations Nora and finally we have Chung Hong tree from heriot-watt University for the United kitchen a self-assembly modular sociable kitchen within a rotatable and height adjustable table I advise anyone to try and say that that's very challenging for use in disaster relief and a small space setting the judges were extremely impressed by Chun qiangs concept which brings multi-generational kitchen design into challenging spaces considering the surrounding service transportation or packaging they commented that this was a brilliant response to the brief thinking outside the box to develop a holistic response that really promotes social interaction congratulations [Applause] so onto brief number seven for the brief wearing intelligence which our students to develop a design solution that utilizes advanced textiles fabric that has been enhanced by new technologies to improve well-being or the quality of people's lives the two winners are fred Witten from the University of Nottingham for NC live a wearable breathable flexible insulin pub pump which sticks to the skin of the user the judges commented on Fred's fantastic blend of empathic thinking and technical mouse and is confident calm and quietly charismatic manner they applauded his rigorous process and his thorough knowledge of the subject which was evident in his incredibly robust and comprehensive answers to the panel's questions congratulations and next up we have gabriela de rosa from Goldsmith's University for interweave which is absolutely beautiful it's a living fabric and advanced textile interlaces plants which creates the connection that inter enriches and expresses our relationship with nature the judges were blown away by Gabriella's charismatic challenging and bold approach to dealing with biodiversity and our potential to change behavior her work was beautifully present presented brilliantly articulated and thoroughly well resolved and the panel was inspired by her impressive creative bandwidth and commercial rigour and bringing together nature science fashion design and making congratulations [Applause] okay now on to the final brief the moving pictures brief sponsored by RSA legacy funds with additional support from RSA events and natural care asking students to conceive and produce an animation to accompany an audio excerpt from an RSA event program to clarify energize and illuminate the content there were two audio files to choose from the first entitled not enough time is about embracing imperfection and taking and is taken from an RSA talk by Tiffany des fous and the second is entitled post truth taken from an RSA talk by Mathieu d'Ancona and is about championing truth in a world of alternative facts there are four winners for our moving pictures briefs as follows first up Catarina Rio Vieira from Middlesex University for not enough time a stop-motion hand-drawn animation focusing on the square as the central element with a simple positive and cheerful style good judges were captivated by Catarina's intuitive approach and her fresh and playful yet sophisticated treatment they especially loved the diversity of characters and distinctive color palette that she used in her animation and we would doubly like to congratulate Catarina tonight as an addition to being selected as a winner for the panel she also won the RSA staff choice award which was chosen by a majority vote at the RSA staff from a nine shortlisted animation so congratulations next up we have Cameron gleave and Gillan boo Jessie from Edinburgh Napier University for unclear waters a digital animation with hand-drawn style and portraying different small sequences of different analogies connected to water this central element is used as a metaphor for information and creates the connecting thread through a series of smaller scenes the panel commended their powerful and cohesive uses metaphors as well as their fluid transitions timeless style and politically neutral approach this was Cameron GM's first animation project and the judges thought they demonstrated great talent professionalism and teamwork so congratulations next up we have grant Saunders from Arts University Bournemouth for digital falsehoods this is a digital animation focusing on the fragmentation of news and atomization of gossip mainly spread on Internet platforms reflected by the rapping or fragmenting of visual elements the judges were impressed by grant's bold experimental approach to the brief and by the level of research underpinning his concept they commented that this is a unique evocative and technically impressive piece of work that has been brilliantly executed gradual ations and finally max right also from the University arts Bournemouth for post truth digital animation focused around a social media page bringing it to life through the use of recognizable icons in unexpected interactions the animation is laced with reference to war and violence illustrating how the internet seems to become a new battlefield of our time the judging panel loved the way max took his concept straight to this new battlefield and powerfully subverted the Facebook platform to create this satirical piece they also applauded the different levels of detail and moments of surprise disruption throughout the film these are four fantastic innovations we could show you but due to time we can only show one from each audio clip so we will show you Casa Venus film from not enough time audio and then we'll show you one of the post truth animations which we picked out of a hat so there are no favorites here all of the winning shortlisted animations are available to view on the RSA student-designed Awards Vimeo channel and we would very much encourage you to do so I once did a workshop with about 70 women in which we were doing this time management exercise I just wanted to help them prioritize their to-do list and so I asked them to start off by writing all the things they expect it to do or complete in an ideal day I mean everything alright if you get up and you go to the gym put that if you lie in bed for 20 minutes thinking about going the gym put that right your commute preparing for meetings every little thing and then I ask them to write down how much time does it take you or would it take you to do every single one of those and then to sum it at the bottom well you won't be surprised to know that not one woman in the room had a thumb that amounted to less than the 24 hours all of us have in a day and that only half the women have even put sleep on their list somehow they forgot about that it's no wonder that so many of us are walking around with these feelings of inadequacy given the fact that what we imagine ourselves to be doing the expectation that we have about what we should be literally doing each and every day is humanly impossible [Applause] back in college so it's all gonna go wrong facts aren't enough host truth will not tumble under the bombardment of more and more and more data we now have a duty as supporters of liberal democracy to communicate facts in a way that recognizes emotional as well as rational imperatives and that this is a very very difficult task politicians for example really do need to align factual claims with emotional significance you know obviously they shouldn't sacrifice veracity to theatricality that would be a disaster but politicians of the future need to recognize the adulthood of the voters and not infantilized them with a kind of machine gun spray of data it's very very important that you come out and you stretch out a hand to the person making the objection but in taking the hand you speak to them as if there are grownups and not just saying don't worry your pretty little head about if there is a debate sment of political discourse which i think is is really alarming the talent that you see in the student Design Awards never fails to amaze me well done to all of you a huge congratulations to all our 28 winners and thank you to the sponsors and supporters of the RSA student sign Awards you've only had a small snapshot of the winning work here tonight but you can view more images and longer descriptions on our website I'd really encourage you to talk to our cohort as well so come and speak to the winning students as I say a number of them have flown in from from further afield to find out what more about their work and what motivated them to do to work on our essay briefs they are pitch ready they've all done it a fair number of times now but I am going to hand back to Rebecca for some closing remarks after you have won big congratulations for our 2017-18 [Applause] Thank You Rowan and Clive and huge congratulations again to the winners I'd like to finish up by thanking everyone who's helped to make the RSA shoe design Awards this year such a brilliant success including are many sponsoring partners collaborators judges and the many many educational institutions and individual educators who championed the scheme and this work would not be possible if it weren't for the amazing RSA team working behind the scenes to ensure that the program goes from strength to strength each year and two of whom serve for Davis and Melanie Andrews we bid a sad farewell to as they moved on to new pastures this year Deborah Melanie Benny and Tom thank you for everything you do [Music] lastly I'd like to say again a big thank you to all the students who have participated in this year's program and irrespective of those competition outcomes and those who are using their skills their design skills in positive impactful ways in designing our futures and I hope that you will now join us downstairs in the Benjamin Franklin room below this one to continue the celebrations over drink thank you [Applause] you