Idrees Rasouli

Design and Urban Innovation


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Practice
Projects
  1. SSE HQ
  2. Tate II
  3. Jebel al-Jais
  4. CCTV HQ
  5. Qatar Library
  6. The C
  7. Rotana
  8. Aspire Zone
  9. Eton Finish Line
  10. Hucknall Links
  11. Inner Harbour
  12. Lusail Marine
  13. River Soar


Research
Projects
  1. GATEway 2030
  2. Child’s Playground
  3. World of Hope
  4. Ford Autonomous
  5. Peace Garden
  6. Celebrating Life
  7. Mangai
  8. Ghost
  9. Seoul Social Software
  10. Tokyo Social Software
  11. Microkinetics
  12. Beyond Grey
  13. Future Mill Road
  14. Digital Preparation
  15. Decolonised Innovation


Start-ups
Ventures/Enterprises
  1. Qaf 1.0
  2. Sealeaf 1.0
  3. Create Cambridge


Teaching
Learning/Activities
  1. Artefacts
  2. Healthy Cities
  3. Future of Work
  4. Urban Interventions
  5. Care & Resilience
  6. Smart Workplace
  7. Design Ethics
  8. Critical Thinking + Doing
  9. Urban Justice
  10. Urban Innovation


Pedagogy
Education/Scholarship
  1. Rethinking Creativity
  2. Repositioning the Art School
  3. Multi-course Structure
  4. Cross-cultural Pedagogy & Practice


Publications
Articles/Reports
  1. Post-Disaster Social Regeneration
  2. Disaster Recovery by Design
  3. Human-Connected Leadership
  4. Decolonised Innovation
  5. Rethinking Urban Partnership
  6. Designing Under Extreme Resource Constraints


Presentations
Talks/Workshops
  1. The Architecture of Money
  2. The Six Realities
  3. Reduced Inequalities
  4. Resilience Through Design
  5. Is the Future Inclusive?
  6. The Thinking City
  7. AI and Creativity
  8. Technology for Social Good
  9. Tradition vs. Innovation
  10. Rethinking Civic Engagement



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Mark

Ghost
Personal Training Instrument

 



— Instant Feedback for the Visually Impaired Athlete —

The Opportunity (Training the Vision-impaired).

Components.


> A wearable that provides the athlete with an instant feedback via vibration and aural senses to improve technique in conjunction with or in the absence of the coach. It defines key points in the stroke — known as gateways, to prompt the athelete toward full stroke. The device informs the athlete of what types of motion will be necessary to achieve a cleaner and repeatable stroke when alone.


This research project is based on the Inductive & Intuitive model to enable a co-creating process that involves the designer to learn alongside the client to develop solutions suited for client as well as end-user needs.

Shared views of the designer and the industry partner helped with envisioning the future based on mutual insights of the world and key understanding of the subject matter.


> Using the Inductive & Intuitive model, a design proposal originated from this research entitle Ghost, which proposes a personal training instrument that informs the athlete of necessary types of motion for achieving a cleaner and repeatable stroke.

Key words:   Visually impaired;
                       Personal training;
                       Motion


Instrument.

Usability Factors.
Application.

Testing Vibrations & Motions.
Paralympian & blind triathlete, Iain Dawson.


Movements.

Working Prototype.
User Scenario.


Organisation + [Credits]
Rio Tinto, [Idrees Rasouli]

Role + [Team Size]
Co-Investigator, [4]

Date + [Duration of Involvement]
2012, [3 weeks]

Client + [Project Location]
London Olympics Authority, [London, UK]

Status + [Project Type]
Proof of Concept, [New Product Innovation]

Brief + [Challenge]
Designing for Visually Impaired, [Disruptive Market Innovation]

Collaborators [Research & Design]
Co-Investigator, Benedict Copping, Jason Cheah, Shruti Grover


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Popular Science
The Engineer

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