Overview
The Innovation Studio operates as a lab for creative technologies, a nucleus for start-ups and enterprises and an industry engagement hub.
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Innovation Studio
Projects
Industry-engagement and our strong maker culture puts collaboration at the heart of everything we do.
Projects
Check out some of our recent collaborative projects with external partners to get an idea of how AUB supports the creative and digital, manufacturing, health, and leisure industries.
With AUB's state-of-the-art facilities we're proud to be able to support a wide range of projects. From helping kick-start creative careers and businesses, to developing prototypes in both digital and physical mediums, our links with Industry have never been stronger.
Kick-starting creative careers and businesses
Fiona McTaggart
Fiona McTaggart is a freelance illustrator and art educator. Her practice encompasses surface pattern design and editorial illustration.
Sea Talus
Ryan Elder's Talus Project began during his BA (Hons) studies, and has transformed into a mountable component for prosthetists.
Salwa Alsaka
Salwa specialises in interior design and creates lighting installations with shadow reflections to give a calm atmosphere to an interior...
Designed Healthcare Ltd.
Designed Healthcare Ltd., has a critical and analytical approach to the redesigning and rethinking of healthcare environments and equipment.
Sarah L. Goy
Sarah L. Goy's area of interest is how art and science can come together and be used to benefit health and wellbeing.
Prototyping and testing
The Bridge Theatre
How The Bridge Theatre brought to life the daemons from Philip Pulman’s iconoclastic fantasy "The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage".
TerraPen
TerraPen’s mission is to make large format artwork easy to produce from a reliable quality product, supported by an open source community.
Designed Healthcare Ltd.
Designed Healthcare Ltd., has a critical and analytical approach to the redesigning and rethinking of healthcare environments and equipment.
Salmon Power Sports
Salmon Power Sports make dynamic ballast systems for high-speed craft, enabling them to be driven more safely in adverse conditions.
Earthly Biochar
Graduate start-up Earthly Biochar has developed an innovative burner for producing biochar.
Sunseeker
Sunseeker is always looking to innovate, develop, and test new concepts to remain best in class. That's where AUB's comes in.
LUSH x AUB Packaging Challenge
LUSH collaborated with AUB to deliver another unique R&D challenge, this time exploring the future of packaging.
Pongoose
Pongoose is a Dorset climbing brand and specialist supplier of climbing equipment.
IoT Solutions Group
IoT Solutions is a start-up business based in Dorset, providing end-to-end solutions for the digital Internet of Things sector.
The Syrup Room
The Syrup Room is a creative design studio partnering with top brands and agencies worldwide.
Digital technology development
Design in VR
Design in VR is an international provider of educational tutorials and classes to up-skill talent in VR design.
Digital Fashion: Virtual Showroom Environments
Exploring integrating multiple emerging softwares and creating a virtual environment to display digital garments created within CLO3D.
aIDyl
aIDyl is an immersive online interior design service, providing clients with affordable 3D immersive design solutions.
Digital Fashion: Technology and Sustainability
Penelope Norman is a pioneer in using digital technology and virtual prototyping to improve sustainable practice in the fashion industry.
TURP
This project is a collaboration between AUB and the NHS to create a medical explainer video for a urological procedure.
Squidsoup
Using 3D printing to create immersive experiences in digitally augmented spaces. Supported by European Regional Development Funding (ERDF).
Treehouse Digital
Developing a short horror film, ‘Treaters'. Supported by European Regional Development Funding (ERDF).
Research and product development
Tricuro
Tricuro combines innovation and technology to enhance its service offer to provide personalised care and support.
LUSH x AUB Packaging Challenge
LUSH collaborated with AUB to deliver another unique R&D challenge, this time exploring the future of packaging.
Welly Walks
Welly Walks is the first in a series of creative research experiences, which aim to engage people in new narratives about British weather
LUSH: assessing mould growth on various fabrics
LUSH approached AUB seeking a better understanding how fabrics behave to help in the decision-making process to develop new accessories.
Sunseeker
Sunseeker is always looking to innovate, develop, and test new concepts to remain best in class. That's where AUB's comes in.
Design
Element Creative Ltd.
Founded in 2020, Element Creative Ltd. has become one of the leading specialist product design consultancies in Dorset.
Aetha Design
Founded by Tom Parsons, Aetha Design is a product design consultancy, combining engineering and industrial design.
Studio Wood
Studio Wood creates intelligently designed, purposeful products that solve real-world problems.
Tom's Studio
Tom's Studio is a Dorset business run by craftsman, Tom Gry. Tom makes and sells handmade, high-end calligraphy pens to a global audience.
Shore Architecture
Shore Architecture seeks out design-led solutions, favouring ongoing academic research and current innovative ideas to explore solutions.
The Place Bureau
The Place Bureau is a strategic studio that defines and articulates place identity.
Explore the Innovation Studio
Events and workshops
A series of workshops and lectures for industry professionals to develop innovation and creative capabilities.
Associate membership
Our Associate Programme offers membership of our Innovation Studio to regional businesses seeking research and development support.
Residency
A Residency at AUB's Innovation Studio gives you and your business the chance to connect and collaborate in our co-working space.
Creative Technologies
The Innovation Studio features state-of-the-art equipment and digital resources, and the latest manufacturing technology.
Business Incubator
The Business Incubator is ideal for individuals or small teams in the very early stages of their entrepreneurial journey...