The Festival of Stuff will once again fill the street outside the Institute of Making with demonstrations and making stations. Come along to celebrate processes and materials from 3D printed arcade machines to propane trumpets and monster slimes to a Great British glue off. 

Finishing techniques take centre-stage at this year's Extravaganza, with a whole section of making stations dedicated to extreme sanding, polishing and shining of all sorts of materials to create wondrous surfaces. Master plasterers, expert metal workers and deft wood polishers will do demos, while Dr Sarah Wilkes will share her extensive knowledge of nano-surfaces.

Do you have what it take to produce a perfectly smooth wooden cube through six grades of sand paper and a lot of elbow grease? 'Finishing' techniques take centre-stage at this year's Extravaganza, with a whole section of making stations dedicated to sanding, polishing, glueing, shining and generally buffing up materials like wood, metal and more. Master plasterers, expert metal workers and deft wood polishers will show their mastery over finishing techniques while Institute of Making research fellow Dr Sarah Wilkes will give your finished piece a once over with her turbo microscope and extensive knowledge of nano-surfaces.

We will additionally be looking at all things metal with an outdoor chimney furnace that will show a bronze casting in action as well as a make-your-own ferrofluid stand and an hands on pewter casting activity indoors. 

The festival will bring back a few of our all time favourites from the year gone by and... hang on, did someone just say 'slime'? Through the day the Institute of Making team will be mixing up a bucket of monster goo for you to poke and prod as an homage to our most popular open day ever. Researcher Ellie Doney will carry on the slimy theme with her food tools station, a bucket of polymorph and innumerable egg whites. 

To recover from all that excitement, retire to our algae beauty bar run by chemical engineer, also known as the queen of algae, Dr Brenda Parker and her algae gang. Alternatively explore the strange beast that is the Institute of Making shop and marvel at the Materials Library inside the Makespace. All this and much more will be at our Saturday Extravaganza for exploring, creating and turning on its head.

Explore a wide range of artistic, engineering and design projects at this underrated show.  You will have the opportunity to engage with the students and exchange ideas about their projects. Those who went to the work in progress show will be able to catch up on your favorite projects, see who has received funding for further development and which projects have been adopted by industry.

The Royal College of Art graduate show will take place in late June, simultaneously across a variety of internal and external venues. Show 2018 offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art and design practice. Over 800 art and design postgraduate students will present work of exceptional quality, imagination and technical skill, exhibiting design solutions to pressing global problems alongside fine art that informs and enriches our worldview. The exhibitions are free, with much of the work for sale or commission – ranging from paintings to prints, glassware to jewelry and furniture to textiles.

Design Interactions, Design Products, ICL/RCA Global Innovation Design, ICL/RCA Innovation Design Engineering,  Service Design, Sculpture, Textiles, Vehicle Design and Schools of Design and Arts & Humanities Research Programmes.

Join us at Two Temple Place for one of our special Wednesday Late openings until 9pm. Visit the show, enjoy a jazz-inspired cocktail at our bar (open until 8pm) and tonight, welcome Cassie Kinoshi and her Trio.

Cassie Kinoshi is a London-based composer, arranger and alto saxophonist known for her work with jazz septet NÉRIJA, Afrobeat band KOKOROKO and her own large ensemble SEED. Cassie has also written for short film (Anne Verheij, ICA Best Experimental Short Film Award 2017 Nominee and London Short Film Festival 2018) and professional classical ensembles such as the Benyounes Quartet and members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent ventures include a Sound and Music funded series of events with her ensemble SEED (Driftglass) and working as the sole composer for The Old Vic Theatre’s professional development programme 2016-17.

Notable artists Cassie has worked alongside include Dele Sosimi, Zoe Rahman, Nathaniel Facey, Yazz Ahmed and Laura Jurd. In 2012 Cassie was shortlisted for the BBC Young Composer of the Year award. nominated for Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year 2016 as part of the ensemble NERÍJA and awarded the Jazz Newcomer Parliamentary Jazz Award 2017.

Cassie has just completed recording her debut album with SEED Ensemble, produced by Jason Yarde, which will be released in April 2018 on label Jazz Re:Freshed.

The traditional Japanese lunch box, or bento, has undergone a number of metamorphoses over the long course of its history, becoming a staple and a unique point of pride in Japanese cuisine. Depending on the occasion, bento can range from a mass-produced lunch container available from railway stations, to lovingly hand-crafted compartmentalised meals set in equally stylish lacquerware. However, the most notable transformation may be perceived in the category of home-made lunch, the ingredients of which not only form an appetising meal but also, with increasing intricacy, a visually engaging one. This is known as kyara-ben (character bento) and it is particularly enjoyed by children, who will often receive bento bearing the likeness of famous manga and anime characters.

The Open House returns as the third annual student exhibition. We welcome you to Design Engineering at Imperial College, bringing you face-to-face with a full spectrum of extraordinary upcoming projects & the people behind the work.

Programme

12:00 - Exhibition Opens

13:30 - Keynote Talk

18:00 - Soapbox Talks

21:00 - Exhibition Closes

Confirmed Exhibiting Work

• Enterprise Rollout - Design Engineering, Year 4
• Solo Projects (work in progress) - Design Engineering, Year 4
• Design Engineering Futures - Design Engineering, Year 3
• Gizmo Mechatronics - Design Engineering, Year 2
• Sustainable Packaging - Design Engineering, Year 2
• Human Centred Design Engineering - Design Engineering, Year 1
• Design Engineering Personal Projects - Dyson School Students
• NuOcean - Grantham Institute
• Alumni Stands

Speaker: Prof Ela Claridge.         Roentgen's first x-ray showed directly the result of the interaction of radiation with body tissues, captured on a photographic plate. Today, medical images are acquired using different forms of energy and sensors, and more often than not they are the result of complex computational processing. Physics, mathematics, computer science, physiology and other disciplines all contribute to the process. This talk will explain how these images are produced, while examining the reality of the resulting computer generated images that doctors use.

Refreshments are served from 6pm on the day of the lecture.

Lectures held at 6.30pm, Franklin Room, Institute of Physics HQ, 80 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT.