MOOV School Furniture

Why are our classrooms crowded with over-engineered, over-sized, heavy furniture? Why should we sit all day? These are the type of questions that inspired the MOOV furniture solution for education.

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MOOV is a dynamic modular furniture solution that creates a healthy learning environment. MOOV is a desk and seating furniture solution for schools that corrects posture, enables movement, and increases pupil performance.  It is stackable and easy to reconfigure and store enabling a flexible environment.

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The furniture is designed to encourage a healthy posture for task purposes.

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This promotes pedagogical development through freedom of movement.

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The furniture system also facilitates movement in education by enabling teachers and students to control their environment, while promoting an active body and mind. It is designed to encourage a healthy posture through standing while working and has a high perch stool integrated for periods of rest.

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These positions maintain the healthy ‘S’ curvature of the spine while supporting the body for task purposes.  The form facilitates a dynamic learning environment through its ability to nest away for storage purposes and move to a required arrangement to suit task. This gives the user complete control of their space and learning preferences. Its user-centred design approach recognises that the child should be the most important thing in the learning environment, not the furniture. MOOV aims for forward thinking in education.

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MOOV was designed as part of the research project TFE, 'Task Furniture in Education', a Marie Curie FP7 funded project awarded to NCAD in 2011.

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It is currently under development.

Miele Sonic

Sonic is an award winning washing machine designed for Miele, Kitchen of the Future, 2006. It is an ultrasonic washer/dryer.  When in use two ultrasonic plates gently

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but thoroughly transfer vibrations removing all dirt particles from fabrics. As the machine is draining it acts as a vacuum removing moisture. An outfit could be washed, dried, ironed and ready to wear in 20 minutes.  

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All the effort taken out of laundry! The design was intended to solve all problems caused by the rotary drum. 

Bloom Bassinet

Designed for bedside use to promote safe & healthy infant development.  Bloom assists superior & convenient care by keeping parents & newborns at arms reach.  The form embodies a floral cocoon embracing the baby's presence.  

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Subtle integration of sensor technology is designed to monitor baby's movements sending an accurate record to a mobile application.

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The concept was developed by Bloom to prototype stage for exhibition at ABC Kids Expo, Las Vegas 2009 & Kind+Jugend, Cologne 2009.

Roto

An clock that expresses the quality of time rather than measuring it. This photo holder is based on the iconic spinning top. By means of a clock mechanism and weights the photo spins slowly in one rotation every hour.