Innovation Design Engineering

signs from MA Design Products caught up with Royal College of Art students at #MilanDesignWeek presenting innovative projects with the potential to improve our lives form furniture to digital tech… Featuring Valerie Chua Yan Tong @valvivre from MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering. #Design #MilanDesignWeek2026 #Innovation

From a flirting robot, through a mechanical scoreboard, to a game you can’t win against a cheating machine —explore bold, playful interactive projects built by our Innovation Design Engineering students! 🤖🎯 To mark International Design Day, we are excited to share a new video from our @idecourse – run jointly with the @royalcollegeofart – showcasing student projects from the Cyber Physical Systems module. Over six weeks, students were tasked with building interactive systems that integrated machine learning with mechanical engineering, with the choice of application, context, and output left to them. What they built reflects what makes IDE distinctive: a cohort that brings together engineers, designers, scientists, and makers from around the world, each bringing a different perspective to the same challenge. Watch our students turn an open brief into bold, interactive systems and see what happens when engineering rigour meets creative thinking. This project would not be possible without the generous support of @thedesigneducationtrust via Trustee, Alec Robertson. The module was led by Dr Rebecca Stewart, alongside Andrew Brand, Oisin Shaw, Melissa Coleman, and Peter Childs. 🎥 Videography: Digital Media Lab at Imperial College London We are also happy to share that our IDE students received major prizes at INTERPLAY25, the Design Education Trust's design competition. Congratulations to Ewan Atkinson (LOOK) and Haoyue Si, Jingyi Miao, and Paul Marçais (SOFT GARDEN) on securing the Major Awards in the competition! 📹 Watch the INTERPLAY25 trailer and learn more about the competition: /watch?v=ymWFscuKYYo #InternationalDesignDay #DesignEngineering #Creativity

This year’s MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering @idecourse Spring Exhibition featured work from the Supergreen project - inspiring design solutions focused on regenerative design 💚 @somaiya.designs went along to discover green solutions including projects focused on reuse, sustainable waste and biomaterials. Daniela Felix @dfr_design tells us about the materials that make up her 100% compostable shoe made out of avocado bio leather and cork…👞 #Design #Innovation #Sustainability

🎉 IDE Spring Show 2026! Join us later this week for the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) Programme Show, featuring works of our first and second-year students. The main focus of the exhibition is the iconic first-year ‘Supergreen’ project, where research into regenerative materials leads to creative explorations across furniture, footwear, food utensils, and fashion. About the event: 📅 19 & 20 March 📍@imperialcollege Main Entrance 👋 We are also hosting a Reception Evening on Thursday 19 March from 5:30pm. Join us to meet the cohort and discuss their work in person. Delivered jointly by the Dyson School of Design Engineering and @royalcollegeofart , @IDEcourse pioneers a unique approach that combines science and technology with design and creativity. 🔗 Find out more and register via the link in our LinkTree. #DesignEngineering #Exhibition @imeprialcollegeengineering

45 years of our MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering and its global impact showcasing @bluegarageorg this weekend (19 to 21 February). Join alumni, students, industry leaders and creative practitioners at IDE45 to celebrate the impact of one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary design programmes. The event features an exhibition of groundbreaking projects, live talks, installations and special collaborations spanning design, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship. Images: Chanwoo Lee (2025); Santiago Ortega (2011); Alex Clark (2025); Pierre Azalbert (2019); Maja Kecman (2005). #Innovation #Design #InnovationDesign

🎂 we are turning 45 year old! 🎂 The IDE 45 Birthday Exhibition celebrates 45 Years of Innovation Design Engineering course. Hosted by @bluegarageorg and featuring projects from graduates of the @royalcollegeofart Royal College of Art/ @imperialcollege dual masters, it highlights the intersection of engineering, design, and research. Come and explore an exhibition full of many wonderful creative works from almost half a century of Innovation. Get your free tickets here: /7jh31d8s

No two IDE students are the same — and that’s the point 👀🌿 Different backgrounds. Different perspectives. Different ways of making sense of the world. How do we start a project in IDE? Here is how our second-year students kicked off their group project with a creative, speculative workshop designed to help them understand themselves, each other, and how they work best together 🤝💭 Thank you to our wonderful host @grymsdykefarm Because great ideas don’t come from everyone thinking the same. ⁉️Thinking of applying to IDE? Come as you are. Curiosity required. 👋 In-person Open days at the RCA on the 31st of January 2026. 🗓️ Admissions Round 1 closes 19th January 🔗 Link in bio for more information

CoNex: Making cobot an intuitive partner for the next era of creation We believe that over the next decade robots will not replace humans but become true partners. Although humans and cobots now share workspaces, they still behave like separate agents... CoNex is an innovative symbiotic system that maps real-world movement into a virtual environment so they both operate in a unified spatial model in real time, building dynamic safety boundaries, enabling mutual communication and reducing cognitive load to shape a future ecosystem of human–robot collaboration! @jennifer.w.y.y @yuyii.yang @changlily2001 @wuxiangnan2024

For millions of people worldwide, Gambling is a fun and competitive activity. However, the risk of this becoming a compulsion or addiction is surprisingly high. #BigFinance, #BigTech, #BigAdvertising all spend billions on making #gambling more enticing. Regulation & Health services can’t keep up. It is rapidly becoming a leading issue of the decade. Say hello to LeveL. It requires very little setup or user interaction. It works seamlessly in the background to provide the right support when necessary. 🍀 A new way of safeguarding gambling. 🤩 A companion that works without judgment. 🎰 Discreet, effective and evidence based. isaacigb @christianabbott @small.louis_

CLOVER: The dual filtration pod combatting wildfire smoke. Wildfires are increasing in the UK and beyond the fire line, wildfire smoke is toxic and harmful to human health. The general lack of guidance and awareness means local communities are not taking necessary precautions to protect themselves. CLOVER is mechanically wind-powered, always improving air quality, without any electrical components. Its dual filtration, comprised of mechanical & biodegradable components, captures and digests harmful particles found in wildfire smoke. 4 CLOVER pods are combined together into ‘The Stem’ providing access to zones of cleaner air in affected communities. The Stem is able to filter 73,800 m3/day, equivalent to 85% of the Royal Albert Hall’s volume. @franci.dc @savelanna @jude_muchen @jacobkrakowianadams #greendesign #wildfiresmoke #airpollution

WayPoint An artificial game intelligence system that makes video games more fun to play without looking. @1_.design @calvincalica @bana.nq @___minghui__

*Soil Kitchen: placing kitchen care into our soils" For every microplastic found in water streams, there are 23 sinking in our soils, and urban allotments represent the greatest hotspots. Using wind-powered, electricity-free tools inspired by kitchen tools, we preprocess compost to capture harmful microplastics, restore soil's structure, and return cleaner material back to the ground. Soil Kitchen aims to empower communities, allotments, and gardeners to take action in caring for their soil, batch by batch. In this context, the design runs electricity free, powered entirely by wind, making it the first solution to remove microplastics from the soil they grow with. Built for neighbours, growers, and anyone who believes in collective care for the land, Soil Kitchen marks the beginning of a new era of grassroots, wind-driven environmental tools. @_.into.the.unknown._ @ally_blah_blah @currrrrrro