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I'm Andrea.

The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers.

In 3-minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale on 8 Nov 2020 in Berlin.

With the 2020 edition, we  break the wall of social distance! The Delft lab took place completely online on 23 Sep 2020.

It was possible to join from anywhere, watch the presentations, and network with an interdisciplinary audience. We used a cutting-edge platform for networking and livestream to YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn called Veertly. We were glad to have our Jury select 2 winners that particiapted to the final in Berlin.
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During the specialization academy about new technology for production I’ve developed a modular system called Mujie (Wooden Joint) which concept comes from a chinese wood game. The project has been developed also thanks to two co-creation workshop that i created and facilitated

The R&D of this project followed a non-linear path -as always happen-, going from sketches and discussion with colleagues, failures and workshops, to conversations with woodworkers about the technical aspect of the material selected.
The modular solution made it perfect for different uses. It has been implemented in two BnBs in south Italy, used to teach how to build an autonomous greenhouse to kids, and for different artistic installations in Sicily.

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During my working experience at Archimedes Exhibition, I’ve been part of the whole process of design and production of the KugelBahn (Marble Maze). I’ve been author of the first sketches and ideas up to some technical details like the archimedean helix to load the balls or creating the different tricks happening in the maze

I’ve been actively involved during the concept phase, participating in the meetings and creating mood boards and suggesting feasible solutions according to the client requests. After this phase I’ve participated as support on the product design phase, creating the whole system of the vertical helix to load the balls from scratch ( including communication with suppliers of different countries) and inventing and testing different balls tricks that have to be implemented lately. Moreover I was working also on project time planning and continues meeting with the project manager and the other members of the team.

I and my team developed a new solution for economic class long distant passengers. My contribution was going from the ideation of the main concept ( to lift one row of seat ) continuing with 3D modelling, organizing the test set-up and pitching the project to our supervisors.

How to make an economy class flight experience more pleasant? Our answer, by shifting the position of the seats and allowing it to recline more.It seems an easy solution, but it took days to be developed in a feseable way. Here the seats have the same pitch of the economy class, but with a lot more space and reclination, allowing the company to keep the same number of passengers but enhancing a new flight experience.

Team: Andrea Riccio, Janita Siriseth, Nard van der Werff

More info here:
Flying V, TUDelft - KLM