Â鶹´«Ã½ celebrates excellence in Tyne Design Week Published on: 20 June 2025 University experts are taking part in a new celebration of North East creativity, innovation, and design. Vibrant and inclusive Tyne Design Week invites design thinkers, practitioners, businesses, educators, students and communities, to take part in shaping a vibrant and inclusive design future. Â鶹´«Ã½ is one of four leading partners in the five day event, along with Edge Innovation, the North East Combined Authority and Northumbria University. The University is hosting a series of events across campus. It kicks off with a chance to take real-world frustrations, like fiddly packaging, inaccessible interfaces, or unintuitive design, and reimagine them as inclusive, joyful, and age-friendly solutions. will take place at the National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) at The Catalyst, Â鶹´«Ã½ Helix, on Monday at 1pm. On Tuesday, attendees to in the Stephenson Building’s Dr Alan Reece makerspace, will have the chance to recreate Â鶹´«Ã½ ‘s iconic bridges using laser cutters and use compression test machines to see how much force they can stand. takes place at The Core, Â鶹´«Ã½ Helix, at 9.30am on Wednesday. Ian Head, Professor of Environmental Microbiology in Â鶹´«Ã½’s School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, is taking part The workshop will bring together leading researchers and creatives to address the challenges of achieving regional decarbonisation and highlight funding opportunities for future collaborative efforts. Our talented students take the spotlight at 2pm on Wednesday, with a. Visitors will be able to see design proposals that explore innovative solutions to urgent social and environmental challenges, including buildings grown from bio-materials, landscapes that restore biodiversity, and spaces that bring together communities, cultures and generations. An exclusive preview of thetakes place at 10am on Thursday. Ideal City explores what each of us most values about where we live, what we would like to change and what we should be aspiring to. What, in short, is an ideal city, who gets to decide, and how can we make a city that works for everyone? Where innovation happens Estelle Blanks, Director of Business Development and Enterprise, said: “Tyne Design Week is a brilliant opportunity to showcase design at Â鶹´«Ã½, and the places around our campus where innovation happens. “Â鶹´«Ã½ uses design and design thinking as a human-centred and highly collaborative approach to problem solving. There’s always an element of design in the things we do here – because we work on new and original research, and train designers and thinkers of the future. This helps us ensure Â鶹´«Ã½ continues to be an engine for inclusive social and economic growth” Tyne Design Week runs from 23 to 27 June. You can find our more here: Share: Latest News Scientists unlock hidden driver of inflammatory bowel disease Scientists have linked a key genetic signal in inflammatory bowel disease to an immune response that shuts down inflammation control, enabling faster diagnosis and targeted treatments. published on: 15 June 2026 Funding system risks limiting genuine community collaboration A new policy paper written by researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½ warns that the way UK research is funded may be undermining efforts to create genuinely collaborative partnerships with communities. published on: 15 June 2026 Volunteers help turn Whitley Bay beach into maths experiment Members of the public joined mathematicians from Â鶹´«Ã½ to create what organisers believe is the largest aperiodic tiling ever attempted on Whitley Bay beach. published on: 15 June 2026 Facts and figures
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