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By exploring everything from new social norms to biophilia, industrial and product design students are making their mark at the object scale.
With a year defined by quarantines and physical distancing, the new ways we engage with each other and the natural world are educating students about industrial designs that deserve a closer look. For a researcher, new social norms manifest themselves in seats designed to explore the duality of love and separation. Others bring the outdoors in with objects inspired by the flora, fauna and ecosystems that support us.
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NORA ALKEYAT
Ryerson University
Undergraduate interior design
NOMINATOR: Jonathon Anderson, Associate Professor, Director of FCAD Creative Technology Lab
Chrysalis, a project designed with his classmate Paul Lee, is a light fixture designed to mimic the natural process of building a cocoon. Using digital fabrication techniques, Alkeyat’s biophilic design mimics the layered and mesh-like shapes produced by insect larvae.
HANNAH KOCH
University of Minnesota
Undergraduate interior design
NOMINATOR: Meghan Hendrickson, Professional Instructor
A finalist in the University Hall of Innovation’s By Design Single Sheet Plywood Challenge, the Koch Sun on the Ridge luminaire refers to the way light cascades over a mountain peak. With a passion for hospitality and sustainable design, Koch’s portfolio includes a diverse set of projects, including a veteran community and an adaptive reuse hotel.
NICOLE WOLERT
New York Institute of Technology
Undergraduate interior design
NOMINATOR: Gertrudis Brens, Director of Interior Design
Inspired by the natural world, Wolert often incorporates organic shapes in works such as The Orchid Collection, which includes a lamp, sofa, stool, chair, and table. His three-story headquarters proposal for Teavana is an abstract section of an ancient tree from root to crown.
AMY YAN
Ryerson University
Undergraduate interior design
NOMINATOR: Jonathon Anderson, Associate Professor, Director of FCAD Creative Technology Lab
Yan’s work operates at “the intersection of design and storytelling”. She has applied her narrative approach to spatial issues in projects such as an ethnocultural investigation of Toronto’s Chinatowns. The Not Love chair won first place in Wilsonart’s annual student chair design competition.
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