Vision: WR Christie is constantly re-examining industry trends and allowing time for creativity. Bringing together what is known in the world and what emerges from playful curiosity is the purpose of the iLab.
This type of process is a balancing act between recognisable business practice and the discomfort of uncertainty. So in a world where overnight, industry-wide disruption is now a possibility we are ready to embrace the unknown, innovate new solutions and create a future of our design.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Alan Kay (born 1940) Computer scientist
WR Christie Research and Development Lab
- BUILDING: Geometric architecture for housing and any furniture item combined with simple, DIY construction techniques. Mass producible with frictionless scaling potential, truly a global product.
- AUTOMOTIVE: Geometric vehicle design (using the same design methodology) mimicking current trends as well as animals and natural organisms. Combining the design methodology of housing and transportation leads to maximum integration potential.
- WEARABLES: Geometric apparel design fabricating protective garments including suits, handwear, headwear and footwear. Reoccurring basic geometries have the intrinsic advantage of folding and unfolding like origami around the human form, a unique advantage protective apparel.
- POWERED WEARABLES: Geometric exo-skeleton suits and human prosthesis technology combined into a singular mechanical system for use as a medical product to replace body parts or as exploration suits in extreme environments.
- PRINTED ELECTRONICS: DIY manufacturing of flexible, wearable electronics using conductive inks for RFID, NFC, electro-chromic and solar powered applications.
- GAME DEV: Digitising and gamifying the above products into a self-sustainability lifestyle system. A way to bring these extraordinary products to life through a fictional story that slowly become available in the real world.