Zurich University of the Arts spotlights seven projects from industrial design students
A gaming platform that aims to build parent-child relationships and an artificial reef designed to provide shelter for coral are included in our latest school show by students at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Other projects include a wheelchair designed to give numerous movement possibilities in wheelchair basketball and a digital device for care home residents to help improve their sense of smell.
Zurich University of the Arts
School:Â Zurich University of the Arts
Course:Â Industrial Design
Tutors: Nicole Kind, Susanne Marti, Martin Meier, Lisa Ochsenbein, Aela Vogel and Hanspeter Wirth
School statement:
"This year's bachelor's and master's degree show demonstrates that our 2021 graduates have tackled, with great commitment, previously unexplored, yet highly urgent socially and ecologically relevant tasks. By applying and unfolding their industrial design knowledge and skills, they have found astonishing solutions. "Our 2021 graduates have embraced a range of pressing issues including aspects of human wellbeing ? care, organisation, management, healing, recovery and sensuality; the construction of ecosystems and biotopes; the fostering and revitalisation of urban spaces; as well as technologies serving to enhance sustainable utilisation."
S'werve ? A Basketball Wheelchair with an Innovative Steering System by Julia Bächi
"In contrast to common wheelchair models, S'werve enables people with restricted arm and hand functions to steer their whe...
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