50 research outputs found
Hierarchical Electrode Design of Highly Efficient and Stable Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells (URFCs) for Long-term Energy Storage
The unitized regenerative fuel cell (URFC) is a promising electrochemical device for intermittent renewable energy storage in chemical bonds. However, widespread application has been hindered due to low round-trip efficiencies
Broadening horizons - employability opportunities within the Interiors Programme
The session will provide detail on the pedagogic practices, which promote employability, within the Interiors department. As a creative discipline, Interior Architecture and Design students must display a mixture of skills and presentation devices to communicate their work. While honing these abilities our students are immersed in realistic, professional briefs which mimic scenarios within the industry. Do the discipline’s tacit enculturation practices, steer graduates onto specific career pathways without understanding the wider contexts that they will be working in? Our employability challenge is to widen the experience of the cohort, exposing them to the various occupations within the built environment, while engaging them with the discipline’s need to address the ongoing challenges around technology, sustainability and inclusion.
This talk will describe how the team are responding to the changing world our graduates must navigate. We will look at three specific case studies; The Metaverse, Materiality and Adaptive Reuse as Social Practice, asking current students to discuss the effect the curriculum has had on their development. These themes have led Middlesex Interior students to engage with local and global communities, which in turn can help to expand restricted ‘career imaginations’ evident on arrival to the programmes. It is hoped that reflecting on these strategies will provoke further conversations applicable to many other programmes
One Kilburn: Imagining the Future of Kilburn [Exhibition and workshop]
The exhibition took place at the Kiln Theatre as part of the One Kilburn: Imagining the Future of Kilburn event. Its main purpose was to display the projects created by students, which centred around the future of Kilburn High Road and the abandoned Community Center at 107 Kingsgate Road and prompt community engagement and discussion.
A community engagement workshop was conducted, fousing of four key questions aimed at exploring significant issues in the area: "What makes Kilburn special?", "What is the vision of Kilburn?", "What can we do now?", and "What can we do in the future?". The workshop gathered valuable feedback from participants, which the students then utilized to inform the development of their projects and that will inform future events for Kilburn La