 |
Innoversity: New Centre Set to ReleaseGone are the days when design was the domain of a lone individual sitting at a drawing board visualising new kettles, chairs, typefaces or fashion garments.
These days, designers are becoming members of multi-disciplinary teams, using their unique creative problem-solving skills to address challenges which affect society, culture and the economy as a whole.
Now Kingston University, working in partnership with St George's, University of London, is set to lead the way in capitalising on this trend by establishing a new centre for design and innovation with a particular focus on benefitting the health and cultural sectors.
Dubbed Innoversity, the Centre is being launched with a £250,000 award from the Higher Education Council for England.
It will feature a laboratory that will be home to multi-disciplinary teams made up of designers, researchers and engineers who will work together to come up with solutions to real-life business challenges.
Kingston University's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Professor Penny Sparke, who is heading the Innoversity development team, said the project had originated from recommendations made by Sir George Cox in his 2005 'Review of Creativity in Business'.
more: Innoversity: New Centre Set to Release
May 2, 2008 | Viewed 18,674 time(s)
|
|
