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Cultural Cushions, Cultural Cushions Year 8This resource has been kindly provided by Emma Gregory of Manningtree High School, in association with her article in D&T Practice 2.2015. It includes a scheme of work and two PowerPoint presentations. It comprises 12-16 one-hour lessons to design and make a culturally inspired cushion suitable to be mass produced.
Puppets YR2, Age 5-6 yearsFirst published 2006 In this project children develop their knowledge and skills in designing and making with fabrics in a project on puppets. The resources include a unit of work and D&T Association helpsheet. It involves children making a textile product by marking out, cutting and joining pieces of fabric. They will look at a selection of hand puppets and base their design on their investigations into how the puppets have been made and who they have been designed for. This unit provides a context for work in literacy...
Founder of Hemingway Design, Wayne Hemingway, MBE, Wayne was born in 1961 and grew up in Morecambe, a typical British seaside town. Perhaps not the most appropriate surroundings for one of Britain's most acclaimed designers. After spending most of his childhood in Blackburn, a young and multicultural Hemingway left school with ten O-Levels and four A-Levels. In 1979 he made another inappropriate decision for a future designer and gained a degree in Geography and Town Planning at University College, London. Alongside his wife Gerardine, Wayne built Red or Dead into a globally-celebrated label and, after...
CEO of The Greenpower Education Trust, Barnabas Shelbourne, Barnabas is the CEO of The Greenpower Education Trust. This charity works with young people nationally to introduce them to using their STEM education in a very practical way to create battery-driven vehicles that then compete in regional and national heats. 🎧 Listen hereHaving experienced 'Greenpower' as a teacher, headteacher, and now as CEO of the Design & Technology Association, I was desperate to get behind the scenes with its new CEO and explore the people and passion that make Greenpower so compelling to so many students (and their...
Designed for Life - Live at Arts University Bournemouth, In this episode, we take the podcast on the road to Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) and talk with YouTube stalwarts Brothers Make, Louise Dennis, Curator at MoDiP (Museum of Design in Plastics) and Will Strange, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader (Sustainable Design) at AUB. The podcast was recorded on February 5th in the main lecture theatre at the university with an audience comprising AUB students and lecturers and students and their D&T teacher from a local school. 🎧 Listen here In this episode, we stray from the show's...
Community worker, furniture restorer and TV presenter, Jay Blades, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in association with The Edge Foundation. Listen now! Jay talks us through his journey from his education in North West London to working with his ex-wife to set up 'Out of the Dark' a social enterprise created to help disadvantaged young people learn practical skills through furniture renovation and design. Jay very candidly describes how he came through a very dark period in his life when within a matter of months his marriage ended, and he lost...
Invisible Creations, Laura Wood and Paul Pentelow, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now! In this episode we are in conversation with Laura Wood and Paul Pentelow, Co-Founders of Invisible Creations a design company with a stated purpose to 'Design for Dignity'.The idea for Invisible Creations® was created in the National Housing Federation’s innovation programme in 2018. The initiative was supported by the social housing sector and the company was formally founded as a new startup in January 2020.Laura, Paul and the team are driven...
Design researcher & team leader, Prof. Rebecca Earley, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now. Becky is a design researcher and award-winning research team leader at the University of the Arts London. She is based at Chelsea College of Arts where she is Co-Director of Centre for Circular Design (CCD). In October 2021 she co-founded World Circular Textiles Day 2050 with a team of like-minded collaborators who all want to create clear roadmaps for circular textiles, by drawing together current...
Master of toy and games design, Richard Heayes, Designed for Life podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen here This episode was recorded some time ago but I have held it for release in the buildup to Christmas; so please do excuse the format not being quite the same as the latest pods. In this podcast, we are privileged to be in conversation with Richard Heayes a master of toy and games design. Richard trained in Industrial Design but, through a combination...
Head of Faculty for Engineering and Design, Andrew Kyprianou, Designed for Life podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen Here This podcast offers something a little different as we talk to staff and alumni students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers, a UTC situated in Coventry. For those unfamiliar, UTCs or 'University Technical Colleges' to give them their full title are government-funded schools with a heavy STEM curriculum focus. The original UTCs filled with students from age 13/14 (year 9) to the sixth form,...
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