Kelly Sant

View staff search | Return to Meet the staff
 

Research activity

           

arts research University of Brighton

2010

  • Team member: Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Mooncup Ltd

    The Faculty of Arts' School of Architecture and Design has entered a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Mooncup Ltd, Brighton, running over 27 months in 2009‐12. The KTP is worth a total of £126,529, and is funded externally through the Technology Strategy Board. The Government's Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) is a long established and successful grant supported scheme, which facilitates partnerships between businesses and universities. KTP helps companies draw on knowledge‐based expertise at the University of Brighton by supporting key projects whilst developing able graduates into roles as future business leaders. It offers all partners a realistic way to contribute to the nation’s wealth, while complementing both research and teaching. Mooncup Ltd is a Brighton based business that manufactures and distributes the Mooncup menstrual cup, and currently employs eight women. The Mooncup team believe that reusable sanitary protection has the potential to greatly improve women's experience of menstruation as well as reducing the environmental damage caused by the manufacture and disposal of throwaway products. Mooncup Ltd is guided by environmentally and people friendly business practices
  • Entering a second year of collaboration and generous support from Stratasys USA for ‘Hybrid Investment Casting’ project (www.stratasys.com/)

2009

  • Collaborative research with Stratasys Fortus (USA)
  • Article: Breaking the Mould, Research News Winter 2010/2011
  • Hybrid Investment Casting continued progress in collaborative partnership with leading Direct Digital manufacture system producers, Stratasys-Fortus USA
  • Hidden Heroes exhibition and workshop, at  Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009 (Milan International Furniure Fair 2009)
  • Hidden Heroes, the ‘International League of Maverick Designers’ at the Temporary Museum for New Design, Superstudio Piu, Via Tortona, 27, Milan, Arash and Kelly’s V&A Museum workshop 'Illuminati.'ZIPP LIGHT Launch - D- Zipping technique for Polypropylene paper/card. Flat-pack mannequins designed by Kelly Sant and Arash Kaynama
  • Launch of four lighting designs including ZiPP Light at Victoria and Albert Museums’ public event: 'Friday Late' sponsored by French Connection. Home Sweet Home, 27 February 2009. The V&A was home away from home for an evening celebrating all things homely. Unique workshops revealed the craft behind everyday household objects, with celebrated collage artist Graham Rawle and designers Arash and Kelly. Domestic rituals were explored through intimate talks, installations and perfomances. Visitors could follow in the footsteps of illustrator Katharine McEwen and find their inner super sleuth to solve the V&A Manor Murder Mystery. Unique workshops revealed the craft behind everyday household objects and domestic rituals were explored through intimate talks, installations and perfomances.
  • The Illuminati Workshop by Arash and Kelly (Sculpture department V&A)
  • This workshop allowed visitors to choose from a choice of three different designs and customise their own lampshade with a little help from product designers Arash and Kelly. For those in a rush, Arash and Kelly gave away posters showing how to make the lights quietly in the comfort of your own home. All three designs are made from a single sheet of A1 sized paper. The designs can then be translated into sheet materials such as polypropylene and wood, using etching, laser cutting and die cutting to transform the shapes into three dimensions. Examples of light shades made in polypropylene and foil sheeting hung above the sculptures. The blue prints for the designs can be freely downloaded from their website, the workshop enabled the designers and students working for them to engage the public in the process of design and production, allowing each person to create a form from flat sheet and then to personalise it

2008

  • Awarded Faculty Research Support Fund (FRSF) June 2008
  • For ‘Breaking the mould: Hybrid Investment Casting’ Casting’ investigates possibilities in designing hybrid form-building techniques, their applications and integration with production systems. Sant is investigating a hybrid investment casting system using digital form –building technologies, and traditional casting with polymers, bio resins, and elastomers. Sant has created a collaborative partnership with leading Direct Digital manufacture system producers, Stratasys-Fortus USA. (Ongoing project)
  • Waribashi Workshop with Polymers and Composites Engineering (P.A.C.E) April 2008
  • Exploring: ideas, economic opportunity, production systems, product cycle, manufacture, raw materials & by-products by Arash Kaynama and Kelly Sant. A seminar and workshop at Imperial College, 13.00pm WED 2nd April, Dr. Alexander Bismark, Academic Leader of P.A.C.E (polymers and composites engineering) and Dr. Jonny J Blaker, Bsc, Msc, PhD, who is researching novel biomaterials
  • The aim of the workshop-seminar: Collaboration; how we can benefit from working together. Sharing knowledge and ideas, exploring materials’ properties and discovering any hidden potential and creating new research perspectives. Exploring: ideas, production systems, product cycle, manufacture, raw materials & by-products
  • The outcomes of the workshop-seminar: Understanding of the potentials of materials for applications being developed by the group. Exploring scope for applications for PaCE’s materials, economic opportunity, emerging legislative commitment to sustainable production systems and material usage. We discovered new areas of focus for material research development, entrepreneurial projects and multi disciplinary projects, which lead on to Design London
  • Design London April - June 2008
  • Design London is part of the innovation triangle, which blends design (represented by the Royal College of Art), engineering and technology (represented by Imperial College Faculty of Engineering) and the business of innovation (represented by Imperial's Tanaka Business School). It has initial funding of £5.8 million from HEFCE and NESTA). www.designlondon.net
  • As part of Design London's commitment to design-led innovation, they provide the opportunity for the project teams who applied to the Design London Incubator to meet with a selection of engineers, designers, business development people and potential business mentors
  • Participation in Design London provided valuable insight, experience, ideas and contacts for which Sant’s industry experience, approach to materials research and applications has been sought
  • Kelly Sant, Arash Kaynama, Jonathan Blaker and Alexander Bismark were Short listed for Design London’s incubator programme and participated in business mentoring and development sessions run by MBA staff for their highly interdisciplinary materials platform.  Working on applications, production systems, markets and business models for ‘WARI PH1’ a polymer which is 80% air. Participation in Design London followed on from Arash and Kelly’s seminar and workshop with the PaCE group at Imperial College London in April
  • A public exhibition evening was held and opportunity for feedback from industry peers for the teams’ project : Tuesday 17 June: 6 pm, Imperial College London. The evening allowed the team to illustrate the potential of WARI PH1 foam and created a network of interested and potential end-users, this helped establish the future direction and key markets to focus on
  • Dr. Alexander Bismarck is Professor of Polymer Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. Winner of the INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE PRIZE, for his work on nanocomposite foams, emulsion templating and for his successful international cooperations
  • The Polymer and Composites Engineering (PaCE) Group is a dynamic young research team, founded in 2003 by Alexander Bismarck
  • The project was highly inter-disciplinary, bridging the gap between basic chemistry, materials science, engineering and processing, product design, material consumption, economics of sustainable systems and the commercialisation of materials with diverse engineering applications

Exhibitions

2010

  • ‘HIDDEN HEROES’,  Zi(PP) Light installation, in a leading collection of contemporary design, a gathering of international designers and artists, and a platform for innovative, functional, beautiful, and dysfunctional forms of arts. Featuring Marcel Wanders: http://hiddenheroesbiz.blogspot.com/. As seen on Italian TV News: www.arashandkelly.com/news.htm
  • Places and Spaces at Kid’s Modern, representing Arash and Kelly with Magis, Vitra, Droog, 50 international designers and producers , curated by the organizers of the Midcentury Modern shows in London. Christison Hall, Dulwich College
  • Paola Coin at Salon de Mobile, Hall 5 stand L02 and Paola C Gallery, Via Solferino, Milan
  • Just for Kids Bilston Craft Gallery , Wolverhampton 14 Nov 09 - 6 Feb 10

2009

  • Hidden Heroes exhibition 'Temporary Museum for New Design' at the underground area 'Discovering', Superstudio Piu, Milan. 22 - 27 April
  • V&A Museum Launch of four lighting designs including ZiPP Light at Victoria and Albert Museums’ public event: 'Friday Late' sponsored by French Connection. Home Sweet Home, 27 February 2009
  • Paola Coin at Salon de Mobile, Hall 5 stand L02 and Paola C Gallery, Via Solferino, Milan
  • CLOSEUP at RCA Focuses on European Partnerships, Ten years of European collaborative projects between new graduates of the Royal College of Art and industry partners across the European Union in the area of people-centred design are to be featured in a major exhibition this autumn, held as part of the London Design Festival 2009. The CLOSEUP show presents ten years of European design projects by the Helen Hamlyn Research Associates at the RCA (1999–2009) in the RCA’s Lower Galleries. Curated by the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the College, CLOSEUP is supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK to mark the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009. Exhibits, including furniture, products, communications and films, will explore design for ageing, inclusive design, workplace design and design for patient safety (featured Matt black Big Clips, Arrow Clips and Genius and Little Genius Table)
  • Kids Modern stand and workhops with little Genius, Zi(PP) Lights. Show includes 50 international designers and producers , curated by the organizers of the Midcentury Modern shows in London. Christison Hall, Dulwich College

Exhibitions 2000 - 2008

  • Kids Modern with Thorsten Van Elten
  • Paola Coin at Salon de Mobile, Hall 5 stand L02 and Paola C Gallery, Via Solferino, Milan
  • 2007 Salon de Meuble, Paris, work showcased at ‘Basic items-Nordic Pop’, Hall 3. January
  • 2007 Virtual Shoe Museum www.virtualshoemuseum.com launch ‘Soles Exposed’ Exhibition live. February
  • 2006 Deploy, 148 St.John Street, Deploy mannequins and other Arash and Kelly designed products. June
  • 2005 Early Years & Primary Education Show 2005, Business Design Centre, London. October
  • 2005 Homes and Interiors Scotland, Sept 2005 (showing Belly Button seat and Campaign Chair) September
  • 2005 ‘SIT? A show of Contemporary Seating’ (showing Belly Button seat and Campaign Chair) Geffrye Museum, London February - August
  • 2005 Paul Smith presents: Milan Furniture Fair, exhibited Genius pads in his shop in Milan. April
  • 2004 ‘a-mart, the art supermarket’, Ale & Porter Arts, Bradford on Avon. November
  • 2004 Intramuros Magazine, re- launch of the ‘Genius Table’ at 100% Design, London. September
  • 2004 ‘Bananistan’, the Empire launched at Village Fete, curated by Scarlet Projects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, sponsored by Fyfes. August
  • 2003 Time:Frame, Furniture Works, London, supported by Blueprint, Business link, Made in London, Furniture Works, London metropolitan University and the European Regional Development Fund. October
  • 2003 Wallpaper, France. September
  • 2003 Village Fete, curated by Scarlet Projects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. August
  • 2003 Selfware Style -Politics of Identity exhibition, Kratz (City of Culture 2003), Austria with Indri Tulusan. April
  • 2003 Designing Ourselves, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. November
  • 2003 100% Design, with Perspex TM ‘Marriage of Materials. September
  • 2002 The Fundoshi Experience exhibition, Boffi Bains, Paris. June
  • 2001 ICA Gallery, London Exhibition of Intelliskin project with Cybersalon’s talks. October
  • 2001 Adorn Equip, City Gallery, Leicester and national touring exhibition. Septembe
  • 2001 Village Fete (best in show), curated by Scarlet Projects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. August
  • 2001 Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Design for Our Future Selves, RCA. June
  • 2001 Tracing Time With My Felt Tips (film), with Lior Kristal, Hockney Gallery, RCA. June
  • 2001 Milan furniture Fair (Royal College of Art) April
  • 2001 Paola.C Gallery, Milan. April Launch of ‘Portta Frutta’ ceramic tableware