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  • Home to roost?

    Towering structures that could be used to house people and birds at Blyth’s seafront are on view at Northumbria University’s Architecture Show which opens to the public at 6pm on Thursday, 20 June.

  • Work while you commute

    An ‘office on rails’ for business class passengers has been designed by a Northumbria University student.

  • Controlling portions at the sauce

    A Northumbria University student has designed a product to help people control their food portions more easily.

  • Calling inspirational photographers

    Budding photographers still have time to enter their inspirational images of the North East to a Northumbria University competition.

  • Design with a difference

    Design graduates and designers will be encouraged to think about the difference design can make at a Northumbria University event this month.

  • The struggle for Newcastle

    Newcastle city centre is the setting for a political drama that pits rich against poor, in a play written and directed by Northumbria University academics.

  • Design students collaborate with industry innovators

    A homecare medication box that senses and reminds the user when it is time to take their medicine, electronic sensors embedded in containers that detect whether home-cooked food is safe to eat, and counterfeit-detecting smartcards are just some of the commercial uses that Northumbria students have designed for a new technology called printable electronics.

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