Key details
Date
- 11 September 2024
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 1 minute
Having recently been shortlisted as a finalist in the Terra Carta Design Lab competition, Pyri has been announced as the National Winner of the James Dyson Awards 2024 for the UK, scooping £5,000.
Key details
Date
- 11 September 2024
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 1 minute
Pyri presents a solution to help manage the ongoing increase in wildfires that are destroying ecosystems, harming human health and releasing emissions that exacerbate climate change, in a compounding cycle. Pyri was borne through a collaboration between four students studying on the RCA’s MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering course and features a low-cost wildfire detection system designed with remote, unprepared and vulnerable communities in mind.
The team, Richard Alexandre, Richard ‘Blake’ Goodwyn, Karin Gunadi and Tanghao Yu (all students of MA/Msc Innovation Design Engineering) who have won the National James Dyson Award will now go through to the final round of the James Dyson Award for the international prize of £30,000.
“Young design engineers have the ability to develop tangible technologies that can change lives. The James Dyson Award rewards those who have the persistence and tenacity to develop their ideas”
The James Dyson Award is an international design award run by the James Dyson Foundation that aims to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. The award is open to current and recent design engineering students and has a simple yet effective brief requiring entrants to design something that solves a problem.
