{"219171":{"#nid":"219171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Students Create New \u2018Benchmark\u2019 for Design in Boston","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduate students from the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design have taken grand prize honors in a Boston, Mass., competition to \u0022reimagine the public bench.\u0022 The team won $5,000 for their design, \u0022Bowsprit,\u0022 which is named for a pole that extends from the prow of a ship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanchit Mittal, one of the students behind the design, said the inspiration came from the team\u2019s initial research of Boston\u2019s Fort Point Channel area. Mittal, along with Rui Chen and Christa Lee, saw that the area had a unique blend of steel buildings and wooden docks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe tried to create a fusion like that in our bench by using two contrasting materials\u2014aluminum and wood,\u201d Mittal said. \u201cWe made it modern looking and something that incorporates a feeling that it belongs to a ship\u2019s dock.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competition, sponsored by Design Museum Boston, was aimed at softening the largely urban Fort Point Channel area while supporting socially and environmentally friendly designs. The competition received more than 170 entries from 23 different countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWendell Wilson, a professor of practice with the School of Industrial Design, assigned the design project to students in his ID6201 class. After Bowsprit was selected as a semifinalist, he worked with local Atlanta businesses to secure the materials and services the student designers needed to make the Bowsprit prototype a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am continually amazed at the generosity of companies and individuals that step forward to assist with student projects,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBowsprit will remain on display as a part of the Street Seats exhibit until October.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduate students from the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design have taken grand prize honors in a Boston, Mass., competition to \u0022reimagine the public bench.\u0022 The team won $5,000 for their design, \u0022Bowsprit,\u0022 which is named for a pole that extends from the prow of a ship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students reimagine the public bench."}],"uid":"27841","created_gmt":"2013-06-25 17:05:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:27","author":"Lauren Spikes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"198881":{"id":"198881","type":"image","title":"Bowsprit","body":null,"created":"1449179934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:54","changed":"1475894851","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:31","alt":"Bowsprit","file":{"fid":"196510","name":"bowsprit.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bowsprit_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bowsprit_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20493,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bowsprit_0.jpg?itok=SuUkW32T"}},"219161":{"id":"219161","type":"image","title":"Bowsprit in Action","body":null,"created":"1449180151","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:02:31","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"Bowsprit in Action","file":{"fid":"197222","name":"fathersonbowsprit.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fathersonbowsprit_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fathersonbowsprit_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83230,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fathersonbowsprit_0.jpg?itok=M-GMKgiC"}},"219151":{"id":"219151","type":"image","title":"Bowsprit Grand Prize Check","body":null,"created":"1449180151","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:02:31","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"Bowsprit Grand Prize Check","file":{"fid":"197221","name":"bowspritcheck.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bowspritcheck_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bowspritcheck_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":70832,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bowspritcheck_0.jpg?itok=rOZiRE-G"}}},"media_ids":["198881","219161","219151"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/60882993","title":"Bowsprit Design Process Video"},{"url":"http:\/\/designmuseumboston.org\/exhibits\/streetseats\/","title":"Design Museum Boston\u0027s Street Seats Exhibit"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.id.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Industrial Design"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"68531","name":"Bowsprit"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELauren Spikes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}