[RACHEL HARDING] Future Architecture and Design

The Radiance Resort, a project exploring our nuclear future, has reached a short list of 300 from over 8000 entries in the iF Concept Award.

The iF Concept Award is one of the most important as well as biggest international competitions for students and young professionals from the areas of design, architecture, marketing and engineering. It is a label of design excellence for young designers worldwide.

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Tent Digital is the only annual showcase for digital creatives and digitally enabled design during the London Design Festival and was described as a highlight of the Festival in 2009.

With increasing integration of technology in our lives, this industry is now one of the most innovative fields of design. The work on display is thoroughly interactive; responding to and engaging with the audience in beautiful and sometimes amazing ways.

Participants are sourced global through a call for entries within the interaction design and augmented reality fields. Tent designers, companies or collectives are selected by the Tent Digital team and are awarded a space in Tent Digital’s ex-industrial, now exhibition space at the Old Truman Brewery alongside Tent London.

Whilst providing an awesome interactive visitor experience (described as containing all the best bits of the Science Museum in 2009) the aim of Tent Digital is to provide those selected access to an audience of commissioners, specifiers, producers and design savvy public.

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Final part of the graduate show exhibits work by final year postgraduate architecture students

Show RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate students’ studio work and research. It is also a calling card on behalf of all the exhibitors who are in the process of launching themselves into their various professional worlds.

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WINNER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION BRITISH INSTITUTION AWARD [ June 2010 ]

My work is currently being exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It has also won the British Institution Award. This is one of four prizes awarded by the trustees of the British Institution for Promoting Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, which was established in 1805 to encourage the study of the Fine Arts. Students entering paintings, works on paper, sculpture and architecture are eligible for the awards.

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This year ADS4 has been exploring the concept of IMMORTALITY, speculating on the consequences of a society increasingly in denial of death:

Youth, beauty, the media and celebrity fuel our desires, new technologies dazzle us with progress and hope; but in a future of increasing complexity, contradiction and dilemma, how might our desire for immortality manifest? Buying a star, creating a celebrity perfume and setting up a charity in your own name have become normal in the world of legacy creation. What will the architectural consequences be? ADS4 questions who the key characters will be in the quest for immortality, who are our new Gods, how will they compete and what will be the pay-off?

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Architecture students at the Royal College of Art in London have been exploring the concept of ‘immortality’.

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Eat Yellow Cake was started in November 2009 as a critical ideas collective by Rachel Harding. It is a collection of research, stories and projects that embrace the defective.

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SHOW RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate students’ studio work and research. A series of four individual exhibitions of contemporary work, it offers a glimpse into the ideas factory of the College itself as well as an opportunity to open our doors to the public. It is a public testing of research ideas and a calling card on behalf of all these talented exhibitors who are in the process of launching themselves into their various professional worlds. This year Architecture Design Unit 4 showcased their "WHAT IF?" films; a series of shorts exploring possilble futures based upon current foibles. My own film, "The Radiance Resort" was exhibited, along with a model of Re[toxic]treat.

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"Architecture students examine the role of the future superhero and explore the architectural implications of their existence..."

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The RCA Interim Show is a sneak peak into the work of current students of the Royal College of Art as it happens. It is a collection of 4 shows that show works in progress from all departments. Architecture Design Unit 4 exhibited a series of preliminary designs for possible futures. My design, for a future in which radiation is accepted as a new holistic medicine, was a glowing curtain structure suspended around a nuclear reactor. The model used light to simulate how radiation might be manipulated to create a varied landscape of gamma radiation for medicinal purposes.

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RECENT PROJECTS [2010] 3D Lace [2010] A Crime of Passion [2010] DNA, With Love [2010] Murder SELECTED PROJECTS [2009] Retoxic Treat [2009] Radiance Resort [2009] Nuclear Textile [2007] Hazards [2007] Hidden Habitat [2007] Double House		RADIANCE RESORT WINNER OF IF CONCEPT AWARD 2011 [March 2011] The Radiance Resort, a project exploring our nuclear future, has reached a short list of 300 from over 8000 entries in the iF Concept Award. The iF Concept Award is one of the most important as well as biggest international competitions for students and young professionals from the areas of design, architecture, marketing and engineering. It is a label of design excellence for young designers worldwide. For more information on the project, please click [HERE] For more information of the award, please click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + EXHIBITION AT TENT DIGITAL [ September 2010 ] Tent Digital is the only annual showcase for digital creatives and digitally enabled design during the London Design Festival and was described as a highlight of the Festival in 2009. With increasing integration of technology in our lives, this industry is now one of the most innovative fields of design. The work on display is thoroughly interactive; responding to and engaging with the audience in beautiful and sometimes amazing ways. Participants are sourced global through a call for entries within the interaction design and augmented reality fields. Tent designers, companies or collectives are selected by the Tent Digital team and are awarded a space in Tent Digital’s ex-industrial, now exhibition space at the Old Truman Brewery alongside Tent London. Whilst providing an awesome interactive visitor experience (described as containing all the best bits of the Science Museum in 2009) the aim of Tent Digital is to provide those selected access to an audience of commissioners, specifiers, producers and design savvy public. For more information on the exhibitions and the exhibitors, click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + SHOW RCA [ July 2010 ] Final part of the graduate show exhibits work by final year postgraduate architecture students Show RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate students’ studio work and research. It is also a calling card on behalf of all the exhibitors who are in the process of launching themselves into their various professional worlds. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + WINNER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION BRITISH INSTITUTION AWARD [ June 2010 ] My work is currently being exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It has also won the British Institution Award. This is one of four prizes awarded by the trustees of the British Institution for Promoting Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, which was established in 1805 to encourage the study of the Fine Arts. Students entering paintings, works on paper, sculpture and architecture are eligible for the awards. For more information on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + FEATURED IN BD MAGAZINE [ Feburary 2010 ] To view the article, click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + FEATURED IN BUILDING MAGAZINE [ Feburary 2010 ] This year ADS4 has been exploring the concept of IMMORTALITY, speculating on the consequences of a society increasingly in denial of death: Youth, beauty, the media and celebrity fuel our desires, new technologies dazzle us with progress and hope; but in a future of increasing complexity, contradiction and dilemma, how might our desire for immortality manifest? Buying a star, creating a celebrity perfume and setting up a charity in your own name have become normal in the world of legacy creation. What will the architectural consequences be? ADS4 questions who the key characters will be in the quest for immortality, who are our new Gods, how will they compete and what will be the pay-off? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + IMMORTALITY INTERIM SHOW [ Feburary 2010 ] Architecture students at the Royal College of Art in London have been exploring the concept of ‘immortality’. To view the article , click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + EAT YELLOW CAKE BLOG LAUNCH [ November 2009 ] Eat Yellow Cake was started in November 2009 as a critical ideas collective by Rachel Harding. It is a collection of research, stories and projects that embrace the defective. To visit Eat Yellow Cake, click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + SHOW RCA [ July 2009 ] SHOW RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate students’ studio work and research. A series of four individual exhibitions of contemporary work, it offers a glimpse into the ideas factory of the College itself as well as an opportunity to open our doors to the public. It is a public testing of research ideas and a calling card on behalf of all these talented exhibitors who are in the process of launching themselves into their various professional worlds. This year Architecture Design Unit 4 showcased their "WHAT IF?" films; a series of shorts exploring possilble futures based upon current foibles. My own film, "The Radiance Resort" was exhibited, along with a model of Re[toxic]treat. To view all of the WHAT IF? films, click [HERE] For more information on the show, click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + FEATURED IN BUILDING ONLINE [ 19th March 2009 ] "Architecture students examine the role of the future superhero and explore the architectural implications of their existence..." To view the article , click [HERE] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + BOOM RCA, INTERIM SHOW [ January 2009 ] The RCA Interim Show is a sneak peak into the work of current students of the Royal College of Art as it happens. It is a collection of 4 shows that show works in progress from all departments. Architecture Design Unit 4 exhibited a series of preliminary designs for possible futures. My design, for a future in which radiation is accepted as a new holistic medicine, was a glowing curtain structure suspended around a nuclear reactor. The model used light to simulate how radiation might be manipulated to create a varied landscape of gamma radiation for medicinal purposes.
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