TEDI-London residentials

To prepare you to tackle real-world global issues, you’ll be given some online pre-learning content to work through before you join us on campus in week 4. This includes interviews with industry experts, presentations from leading academics, and interactive content, and is designed to guide you through the relevant global issues, current state of the art solutions, and future concepts. This will be your first opportunity to interact with your fellow course mates, building your groups as well as developing your role within your group. The pre-learning materials can be completed on a part-time basis alongside your usual schedule.

From week 4 onwards, the programme will run on a full-time, in-person basis at our engineering campus in Canada Water. During your first week at TEDI-London you’ll meet your group and interact with a range of key stakeholders, industry and governmental experts, and the TEDI-London team. This week is all about problem setting in a local environment. You’ll start sculpting your problem statement and key focus area, working as part of an interdisciplinary team to understand the problem and its possible solutions from a wide range of viewpoints.

As you progress into your second week on campus, your ideas will start to become reality. Working with key design frameworks and support from our design and makerspace team at TEDI-London, you’ll start developing your own prototypes and see your designs come to life. You will also have opportunities to interact with your stakeholders and various design critics to receive feedback and progress your ideas.

In your final week at TEDI-London you will finalise your design, implementing your prototypes and solutions into the real world. Final reviews with stakeholders will allow you to polish the gold ahead of a final demonstration showcase event, where you’ll present your ideas to the wider community. This is your chance to show how your design solves a global problem in a local context!

Our residentials run twice a year, once during the winter season and once during summer.

To participate in any of our residentials, you’ll need to be a minimum of age 18.

If you need to stay locally during the programme, please get in touch with us at residentials@tedi-london.ac.uk and we will do our best to help you arrange your stay.

Please note that the cost of accommodation is not included within the programme fee.

Definitely! Interdisciplinary teams are crucial when it comes to tackling global challenges, and teams that approach problems with each of their perspectives and skillsets in mind often develop better outcomes.