RCA student team the Tyre Collective win National James Dyson Award

The team, who first collaborated on their project whilst studying for our MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering, will now go through to the final round James Dyson Award for the international prize of £30,000 – for which there will be two winners this year.

The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It's open to current and recent design engineering students, and is run by the James Dyson Foundation. The brief for the award is simple – invent something that solves a problem. The Tyre Collective’s clever device does just this, catching tyre wear pollutants as vehicles are moving and preventing 60% of these airborne particles from escaping into the air we breathe.

Tyre wear particles account for up to 50% of PM2.5 emission from road transport and, with technology closing in on gas emissions, the Tyre Collective believe that the future of vehicle pollution will ‘not come from the tailpipe, but from tyres.’ Their device is the first of its kind in the world and was profiled earlier this year in the Evening Standard and on Design Boom. The team is made up of Hanson Cheng, Hugo Richardson, Siobhan Anderson and Deepak Mallya who first exhibited their invention at the RCA Work-in-progress show earlier this year.

Update: On 19 November 2020, the Tyre Collective were announced by Dyson as the official runners-up for the International James Dyson Award.