Materials and Design Exchange (MADE) Materials for Design - Ideas, Inspiration, InformationThe Materials and Design Exchange – MADE - brings together the communities of design and materials technology in order to stimulate innovation, promote the transfer of materials knowledge and improve the competitiveness of UK business.MADE is part of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) funded by Government through the Technology Strategy Board, forging a link between designers and other sectors of the KTN concerned with metals, plastics, textiles and the full range of modern materials. The core partners of MADE are the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), the Royal College of Art (RCA), the Design Council, the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF South). MATERIALS AND DESIGN EXCHANGE registration is free and offers members:
New Materials, New Technologies: Innovation, Future and Society Seminar on New Materials Joint University College London / Kings College London seminar series supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, The Materials KTN and the Materials and Design Exchange (MADE) New Materials is the second in series of seminars on New Materials and New Technologies, where scientists, engineers, anthropologists, architects, designers, writers, and artists are brought together to discuss the role of new materials in innovation and society. The keynote speaker is Philip Ball, winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for science books. The other speakers are no less illustrious. We present; Mikael Johansson, an anthropologist specialising in nanotechnologies; Prof Bill Lee, Head of Materials Department, Imperial College London and expert in nuclear materials; Margaret Pope, a materials consultant and expert in materials libraries; Andrew Todd, an architect an expert in specifying and using new materials. The wonderful people from Materials Library shall also be providing an array of wondrous matter for you to get your hands on. The time and place is King's College on the 12 May, 13:30-18:00. More information can be read on the attached e-flyer and at this link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/conferences/newmaterialsnewtechnologies It costs nothing to attend but places are limited and must be booked through Maria Pritchard (UCL) at mltpritchard@googlemail.com Room K2.31 (follow signs from reception) King's College London Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Nearest Tube: Temple, followed by Charring Cross then Holborn. Bus stop: Aldwych Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html “Materials and Design for Disability” A MADE Workshop looking at Implications for design and technology Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB 14 May 2008 10:15 – 4:00 pm To book your place or view the programme please click here Protecting What’s Yours 24th June 2008 MADE Workshop, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 Full details of the programme and online registration will follow shortly What Wood You Use? 30th July 2008 MADE Materials Resource Centre (MRC) Open Day This MADE luncheon and open day has a natural materials theme allowing a hands on experience and open environment for free discussion. 1 pm – 3 pm 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 Online registration will follow shortly Past events“Textiles and Clothing Sustainability”A MADE Workshop looking at Implications for design and technology Royal Academy of Engineering, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG 1 May 2008 10:15 – 4:00 pm To book your place or view the programme please click here MADE education conference 25 April 2008 at IOM3 For more information visit www.rca.ac.uk/made/education Annual KTN Event 24 April 2008 For more information click here Natural Materials 7 March 2008 This event forms part of National Science and Engineering Week 2008 Organised by Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DB 09:15 – 5:55 pm www.iom3.org/events/natmats.htm “Beating Around The Bush” A MADE Workshop looking at materials from nature Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 6 March 2008 10:15 – 4:00 pm To book your place or view the programme please click here. Whether fashion or furniture, art or architecture, nature with its natural materials has a part to play. Throughout human history, natural materials have been key to our survival and success. This MADE Workshop will look at how designers use nature and the science behind the continuing use of natural materials despite the range of synthetic alternatives. MADE at the Surface Design Show 2008 - Stand 357 The Business Design Centre, Islington, London, N1 0QH 4th-6th March 2008 Focussing on “Antibacterial Materials and Surfaces”, MADE will have a selection of material swatches and components with antibacterial properties and coatings for all to see and touch. Please note that the items are for reference only and are a taster of the MADE materials resource centre. About the Surface Design Show www.surfacedesignshow.com/client/index.aspx?page=1 How to get there: www.surfacedesignshow.com/client/index.aspx?page=19 For information about our stand: www.surfacedesignshow.com/client/ClientExpoStudio/index.aspx?exhibitor=922 Please note that items shown on the MADE stand at the Surface Design Show and at the MADE Materials Resource Centre are not to be removed. In addition, we do not source samples on behalf of our members. However, the suppliers’ contact details will be displayed for each sample. “Waste Not! Want Not!” A Materials UK event in collaboration with Materials KTN and MADE workshops  Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 26 February 2008 10:15 - 4:00 pm PDF programme can be downloaded here (pdf file 643k) We all have a responsibility to encourage recycling, reuse and the use of recycled materials in place of primary materials. Designers, Architects and Engineers can play a decisive role in this by carefully choosing the materials they use and by designing with reusability and recyclability as a principal design parameter. This MADE workshop will look at a range of the key issues and materials, with examples of success stories. This event is sponsored by Materials UK and Materials KTN MADE Aluminium in the Living Environment Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 31 January 2008 Another Side of Fashion Lecture Series - The Fashion Context First seminar: The Fashion Context Wednesday 12 December 2007 - 5.30pm to 9.00pm Rootstein Hopkins Space The Programme is available on www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/events/39622.htm Download the Programme (1 MB) PDF and Press Release (31k) Word Doc For more info contact Rebecca Munro on 020 7514 2998 or email r.b.munro@fashion.arts.ac.uk. Lecture series hosted by: The Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures The Intelligent Media Initiative University of the Arts London Materials and Design Exchange BUGZ, 31st October 2007 On 31st October MADE will be held an overview of antibacterial materials and a small exhibition of currently available antibacterial products at 1 Carlton House Terrace, aimed at the Design Community. Download BUGZ programme (pdf file 665k) The day was followed by a second day also on the subject of Antibacterial Materials held at the same venue on 1st November 2007 aimed at the materials and microbiology communities. For more details of the Antibacterial Materials conference see www.iom3.org/events/antibacterial. Public Lecture Professor Andrew Lloyd from the University of Brighton presented a lecture on 31st October in conjunction with the London Materials Society at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London entitled: ‘Combating bacterial infection : Surface engineered antimicrobial materials’. The lecture will be free to attend, and pre-registration is required. Email dawn.bonfield@iom3.org. Making Matters – New materials and contemporary crafts Venue TBC 17 September, 6pm-7.30pm An exploration of the relationship between the material sciences, design and contemporary crafts. This debate will consider what a dialogue between the materials industry and the aesthetic world of contemporary craft practice might deliver. Including practical demonstrations of smart materials, this event will attempt to predict how the crafts of the future might look. More Report on Making Matters, September 2007 word file 120k Illumination – Making a difference with advanced materials Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 19 September 2007, 10.30am–12.30pm An overview of materials developments affecting the future of lighting across a spectrum of applications, from traffic signals to domestic lighting with light emitting polymers to ceramic LED’s. More | pdf file (842k) Ceramics in the Kitchen Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 19 September 2007, 2pm-4pm Recognising the increasing public interest in food preparation and cooking, this workshop will update designers on ceramic developments in the kitchen. More Another Side to Fashion Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London 20 September 2007, 11am-4.30pm This is the first in a series of events to explore the wider influence of fashion, and the potential synergies between fashion, materials science and technology. More Launch of Materials Resource Centre Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 24 September 2007, 11.15am–1.30pm MADE will launch the national Materials Resource Centre, which is situated at the premises of the Institute of Materials. The Resource Centre will allow designers to access material samples of all types, together with examples of current or developing applications. More Manufacturing Reinvented – Additive manufacture and a second industrial revolution Royal College of Art, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Kensington Gore, London SW7 25 September 2007, 9.30am–4.30pm Rapid manufacturing (RM) is a range of new processes that make things by addition –building the part grain-by-grain, directly from digital data. This conference will make a critical examination of RM – how it works, where it is headed, and what it will mean for consumers, designers and scientists, and for the global economic map. More Report on Manufacturing Reinvented, September 2007 pdf file 843kb De-CONSTRUCT: Re-CONSTRUCT - Innovation in bicycle materials and design Report on MADE Summer School, July 2007 pdf file 720kb Click here to register with MADE online. 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