22.04.19 - TEDxUofT design competition brings together undergraduate and graduate students on a winning team
Undergraduate students Lucas Siemuch and Peter Dowhaniuk teamed up with graduate student Anton Skorishchenko to design and fabricate this year’s installation for the TEDxUofT event this past March.
The three students connected while working with Daniels Faculty Professor Stephen Verderber on the Highlands Gridshell project at Dalhousie. “Since then, Anton has been a mentor for us, guiding and teaching us how to fabricate our designs,” says Siemucha.
The installation, titled the HARP, consists of a metal frame that supports tightly bound red paracords. The frame is made up of two octagonal halves, with a larger segment for the base and a smaller segment capping the top. The metal frame gradually narrows, creating moments within the installation where the density of strings increases. The installation plays with transparency and dispersion of light through the screen of strings, explains the group.
TEDxUofT is an organization designed to connect and gather the brightest minds in the University of Toronto community to spark conversation. It aims to continually grow a platform of free knowledge and entertainment with some of the world’s most inspired and curious thinkers. As part of their themed conference, they hold an annual design competition for an installation that related to that theme. This year, participants in the competition were asked to work with the theme Spectrum.
Among the team who helped run this year's TEDxUofT event are Daniels Faculty students Eric Chen, Zahra Syed, and Scarlett Gao as part of the executive team.
For more information about TEDxUofT and their events, visit its Website and YouTube Channel.