The Royal College of Art and OPPO have teamed up with Dezeen to host a live panel discussion about how design students from the RCA are making technology more human. Tune in from 4:00pm UK time.
Technology brand OPPO has collaborated with students from the RCA's Design Products MA programme on an exhibition of projects that explore how technology can be further integrated into everyday life.
Responding to the exhibition's theme of "Humanising Technology", students worked closely with OPPO London Design Centre, the brand's design hub, to develop projects that allow technology to "flow seamlessly into one's life".
RCA students responded to the brief of Humanising Technology with projects such as Eric Saldanha's clothes hanger that cleans garments using a UV light "It is an opportunity to explore, question, and analyse technology to make it more human, familiar, comfortable, and intimate, through developing people-centric designs and products," explained Jintong Zhu, head of the OPPO London Design Centre.
Moderated by Alon Meron, Design Products tutor at the RCA, the panel will discuss the philosophy behind the brief and the benefits of technology brands and the educational sector collaborating to push the limits of design.
Panellists will include Paul Anderson, dean of the RCA's School of Design and Ashley Hall, professor of Design Innovation and head of postgraduate research at the RCA's School of Design.
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