Jahan Daya

Jahan Daya is a Design Engineer working to promote wellbeing in active lifestyles. His background in engineering allows him to explore and challenge innovative technologies and apply them through a human-centred design approach to positively impact people in their everyday lives.

Education

MA/MSc Global Innovation Design - Royal College of Art and Imperial College London (2021-present)

Exchange: Master's of Industrial Design (MID) - Pratt Institute (New York, USA)

Exchange: Master's of Media Design - Keio University (Tokyo, Japan)

BEng Mechanical Engineering - University of Bath (2017-2021, First Class Hons)

Experience

Infrastructure Engineering and Management - The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) (2019-2020)

Scholarships

Industrial Design Studentship - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Jasso Scholarship - Keio University

I'm Jahan and I have a passion for extreme sports, materials, and cool things. My GID journey has been a series of unique experiences and adventures. I feel privileged to have travelled the world, explored different cultures, and challenged my engineer's mindset with human-centred projects. It is my pleasure to talk to you about fun things like TOAD (not the animal), sunglasses and little (almost) flying machines.

TOAD is a bi-lateral wearable device designed for amateur swimmers and water polo athletes suffering from shoulder injuries. It facilitates their safe and speedy return to sport by tracking their technique and providing personalised feedback on their shoulder performance and rehabilitation progress.

While surfing across the world, I discovered that over 689,797,468,322 pairs of sunglasses lie at the bottom of our oceans. Plastic pollution has become a pressing environmental issue and the search for new materials remains a challenge for all. Quite Some Sun uses Chitosan to create biodegradable and ocean-friendly sunglasses.

In an attempt to challenge the laws of physics, KIWI is a smart ornithopter that responds to hand gestures in its aspiration to fly.

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TOAD

TOAD is a bi-lateral wearable device designed for amateur swimmers and water polo athletes suffering from shoulder injuries. It facilitates their safe and speedy return to sport by providing personalised feedback on their shoulder performance.

Limited guidance in return to sport leads to fear and unrealistic benchmarks and a subsequent increased risk of injury.

Toad tracks your upper body technique in swimming and waterpolo to identify pain and fatigue and evaluate whether the athlete is overtraining undertraining or training optimally.

The information is communicated via an app interface so that the athlete can track their rehabilitation progress and make decisions on their training to avoid re-injury.

Quite Some Sun

There are currently 689,797,468,322 pairs of sunglasses at the bottom of our oceans - most of them made from plastic and other non-biodegradable materials. Quite Some Sun uses the second most abundant natural polymer, Chitin, acquired from seafood waste, to make ocean-friendly, biodegradable sunglasses.