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Virtual Reality Workshop at the Grand Challenge 2022 – A Review with two Case Studies
Summary
This review describes a virtual reality design workshop at the Royal College of Art that engaged students in tackling major global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration. The event included environmental topics relevant to plastic pollution and sustainability but contains no original microplastics research.
Since 2016 the RCA Grand Challenge is an interdisciplinary event that runs each year across the entire School of Design at the Royal College of Art. Around 400 Master and PhD students with design background participate in this event, focusing on tackling key global challenges through collaboration. In 2022, the Grand Challenge was focusing on elaborating topics in the context of Ocean-driven activities. In this context, a VR workshop was conducted with around 40 students with mostly no background in using VR platforms. In the end – after a 4-week design sprint – 10 UNREAL engine-based projects were presented of which we will discuss a selection here. One of the projects managed to be among the overall winning teams of the Grand Challenge 2022.
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