Friday Late Invent: Events

Pixel Roller
Grand Entrance
6.30-7.15 ; 8.15-9.00
rAndom International showed their invention: the Pixel Roller, a paint roller connected to a laptop literally painted digital images and text.

DJ set by RoebecK
Grand Entrance
18.30 - 22.00
London based electro-acoustic outfit RoebecK provided the musical backdrop for the evening with a DJ set of specially selected inventive and innovative sounds.

Volume
The John Madejski Garden
18.30 - 21.45
An interactive installation by United Visual Artists and one point six invited you to create a new performance and to consider your relationship with your fellow performers. As visitors walked inside the grid their movements created patterns of light and sound that interacted with those created by the people around them.
Part of the PlayStation Season.

Evolution Synthetica
Raphael, Room 48a
7.30-8.00 ; 9.00-9.30
Experimenter En Couleur & Shroomstudio presented 'Evolution Synthetica', a symbiotic performance of evolving sound and image. Live experiments in evolutionary processes using generative sound synthesis, microscopy, macro footage and live generative digital animation, created a sensory spectacle bridging art and science.

From Flops to Tops: How frequent failing can lead to design success
Lecture Theatre
20.00-21.00
Jeremy Myerson, director of Innovation RCA in conversation with Mat Hunter of IDEO and Anna Gerber, author of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics.

ARK-INC.
Seminar Room 3 and Studio
7.15 ; 8.15 ; 9.15
Performance duration: 20min
What are the values you believe in? Why do you believe in them and where did they come from? The common structures upon which we base our lives are, at best, unsustainable and, at worse, wholly destructive. These facts have been recognised by the majority of world leaders and yet, despite recent and repeated warnings that we are fast approaching a point of no return. The world's governments pay these issues little more then lip service. When faced with the inevitable outcome how do you respond? Fear, guilt, outrage? How about: just buckle your seat-belt and enjoy the ride?

Spacedog UK
Poynter Room
18.30 - 21.45
Live recording on the Edison phonograph, ghostly waterphonics and music plucked from the telephone lines, the toolshed and the aether were in this mini cabaret of acoustic curiosity. Audience members were invited to try their hand at some inventive sonic oddities, plundered from the archives by this Brighton-based trio.

Richard Shed & Sam Johnson's da Vinci workshop
The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries, Room 24
18.30 - 21.45
Contributions to a collective design on canvas of  magnificent machines in the style of Leonardo da Vinci. With a little the help from the da Vinci Team and their own grey matter, participants devised the first strokes of a mobile city, a prison ship, the tallest building in the world or a machine for a trip to the moon. The weird and wonderful eclectic collection of inventions was then displayed in the gallery with their inventors' signatures at the foot of the canvases.

Films from the DBD Inclusive Design Challenge
Café
18.30 - 21.30
The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the RCA presented a selection of short films from the annual design competition with a difference.

Inspiration Park by Imagination: An all-weather concept developed with the expert input of visually, cognitively and mobility impaired users.

Milkman by Factory Design: A clever alternative to the standard milk carton that makes life easier for all, especially people with arthritus.

Tilting Trike: a pedal vehicle for all abilities: By Ben Wilson / RCA Design Products. Research and development of a new pedal-powered tricycle for children that can be quickly adapted to the needs of those without lower body strength.

Indulgent bathing: new narratives for older people in the bathroom: By Julie Mathias / RCA Design Products. This design study explores what luxury and indulgence in the bathroom might mean for people over the age of 50.

Exhibitions
A late night viewing of current exhibitions; Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design, At Home in Renaissance Italy and Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour.

Eating & Drinking
18.30-21.30
There was a Friday Late Bar in the Grand Entrance and the Café for a selection of hot and cold foods, beers and drinks specially created for the night.