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Our first ever intake of Design students spent their maths class today with Dr Ramit Debnath designing paper planes based on what they learnt about forces and vectors in the class

18 October 2024

In the class exercise, the Year 1 Design Tripos students used what they had learned about vectors and linear algebra in Dr. Ramit Debnath's Math and Programming class to create and build paper planes. The goal was to see whose design could get the plane the farthest, considering four main forces: lift, drag, gravity, and...

The Department congratulates MAUD alum Xidian Wang on winning the AZ Design Award and the Architecture MasterPrize

15 October 2024

Xidian's award winning MAUD project, completed in 2023, was a project for single mother families in Japan. As well as winning the AZ Design Award and the Architecture MasterPrize , it was also exhibited at the London Design Festival and featured in an interview on Koozarch. You can read the interview here: "It Takes a Shea...

Researchers from the Centre for Natural Material Innovation group will be chairing a webinar on circularity and repurposing timber waste on Thursday October 17th

14 October 2024

The session will be chaired by Dr Martha Godina (CNMI, University of Cambridge) and will hear from Dr Dan Ridley-Ellis (Edinburgh Napier University) and Dr Jonas Breidenbach (UCL). The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 17th, from 13:00-14:00 BST. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eeC4N5Jf

The Department congratulates 3rd year student Dami Fadun on winning a Gensler 2024 Diversity in Design prize

10 October 2024

For more information on the Gensler Diversity in Design Bursaries and Prizes visit: Diversity in Design Bursary | Gensler

PhD candidate Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2024/25 at the Alan Turing Institute

8 October 2024

The Turing Enrichment scheme ( https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/studentships/enrichment ) offers students currently enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university the opportunity to join and work at the Alan Turing Institute for up to twelve months where they can continue their PhD while enriching their research...

The Public Map Platform project led by Professor Flora Samuel has had recent events publicised widely on Welsh BBC

1 October 2024

The LLe Lais events were featured on BBC Wales and various Welsh channels at the end of September. https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplayer%2Fepisode%2Fp0jqn3n1%2Fnewyddion-a-chwaraeon-sun-29-sep-2024&data=05%7C02%7Cfbs22%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%...

On Thursday 7 November from 2-3pm (UK time) the MSt Building History course will be holding an online Open Day

1 October 2024

If you would like to learn more about the course and chat to the Course Director, Dr Adam Menuge, please contact the MSt Building History Course Administrator on: building-history@aha.cam.ac.uk who will add your name to the attendance list and contact you later. The session will cover all aspects of the course including...

Assistant Prof. Dr. Michal Gath-Morad awarded a £770,000 SNF-Funded EVIDENT Project (Co-PI) to Investigate How Emergency Department Design Impacts Healthcare Workers' Face-to-Face Communication and Patient Care

30 September 2024

mgm_grant_carousel.jpg Faculty member, Dr. Gath-Morad has been awarded an SNF grant (£770,000) as a Co-PI, alongside Christoph Hölscher (ETH Zurich) and Ruth Conroy Dalton (Northumbria University), for the EVIDENT project, which investigates how Emergency Department (ED) design influences healthcare workers' face-to-face (...

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora publishes paper in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research

30 September 2024

MAUD Alumna and newly-appointed Cambridge Design Teaching Fellow Patricia Mato-Mora has been published in the ARENA Journal of Architectural Research (AJAR), edited by Dr Murray Fraser and Dr Steve Parnell. AJAR is an online Open Access peer-reviewed journal for all kinds of design research and scholarly research within...

Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: a new book by Dr Fiona Smyth is out now

26 September 2024

The book is a ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain. On a winter’s night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul’s Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic...