Becky Pilditch

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2010

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• [email protected]
  http://www.superprostheticsproject.com

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• Hand #8

  Super Prosthetics is a project about exploring armwear as an object of empowerment, choice and identity. A series of experiments were conducted, in collaboration with Holly Franklin, to create wearable objects centred around social interaction, self-expression and beauty.

  Hand #8 is the final experiment in the series and a response to the way Holly uses her hands to communicate. In contrast to projects that seek to conceal or use bulky electronics to imitate life, the final object has been tuned and weighted to create gesture and elegant expression as an extension of one’s own movement.

• Degrees

• MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2007

• Experience

• Student engineer, Cambridge Consultants Ltd, Cambridge, 2003-6; Research and development internship, Filtra Ltd, Sydney, Australia, 2006; Designer/engineer, Lunar Design Inc, San Francisco, CA, US, 2008; Inventor/start-up company, Bare Conductive Ltd, London, 2009 to present

• Exhibitions

• Seoul Design Olympiad, Jamsil Stadium, Seoul, Korea, 2008; SIDeR: Flirting With The Future, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2009; ARS Electronica Festival: Human Nature, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria, 2009; 100% Design, Earls Court, London, 2009/10

• Awards

• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Industrial Design Studentship, 2007-9; First prize, Gruppo Sintesi Shaping Up the Future Award, 2008; Honorary mention, Hybrid Arts, Prix Ars Electronica Prize, 2010