Awardee and recipient archive

  1. BBC Tomorrow's World Awards

    NESTA teamed up with BBC's flagship science programme Tomorrow's World to inspire viewers to invent products that make life better. Innovative people from across the UK were given business advice and a cash prize to help them turn their ideas into reality

  2. Becky Truman

    Becky Truman is a contemporary trapeze artist. She has used her Fellowship to research and create narratives about identity, injury, illness and the effects of ageing in relation to the career trajectories of performance-based artists.

  3. Dare to be Digital

    With NESTA's support, Dare to be Digital - a competition for students to come up with a video game idea and develop it in just ten weeks - has gone on to become a stepping stone for computer game graduates to enter the industry.

  4. David Taborn

    Pioneering artist David Taborn used his NESTA Fellowship to work alongside scientists, to enhance public understanding of science and create informative new art. He went on to be awarded a Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Urban Glass studios in New York.

  5. Films for Learning, The Thomas Hardye School

    NESTA funded the first phase of Films for Learning, a project to enable teachers and students to make their own video resources to share online, inspiring other schools to use them and contribute their own. Led by Mark Richardson a Design and Technology t

  6. Georg Tremmel

    Georg Tremmel, along with colleague Shiho Fukuhara, secured NESTA support to progress their plans to grow trees containing the genetic identity of humans. Their innovative coding method allows the encryption of human DNA within a tree's DNA without affect

  7. Indri Tulusan

    Indri Tulusan took part in the NESTA Creative Pioneer Programme to equip herself with the business skills to set up her design agency, TEKO, with partners Eva Tuunanen and Anna Hiltunen. They work with clients including the NHS to empower people to be mor

  8. John Taylor

    Musician and composer John Taylor secured a NESTA Fellowship to explore new musical ideas, creating a multimedia symphony to encapsulate the best aspects of black music through the ages.

  9. Justin Thomas & Anisa Alkunshalie, Symplex Software Solutions Ltd

    Justin Thomas and Anisa Alkunshalie used NESTA's investment to develop a pioneering software package, Anamorphic Micro, to help people with eating disorders to come to terms with their problem. The software is now in use world wide and has been adopted by

  10. Simon Tegala

    Simon Tegala - a Goldsmith's graduate seen as one of the rising stars of the international arts scene - used his NESTA award to progress further in the field of digital arts installations, exploring our growing reliance on digital technology to maintain o

  11. The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. Talking to the Animals

    The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery created Talking to the Animals to explore ways for parents and children to jointly enjoy the museum's collections and thus, to talk, play and learn together. The project aimed to tackle the issue of speech development

  12. Tideway Systems Ltd

    NESTA provided seed funding to help Tideway Systems Ltd to commercialise flagship product Foundation, which helps large enterprises to better manage their IT infrastructure by automatically mapping out, tracking and auditing changes to complex IT environm

  13. trAce Online Writing Centre

    NESTA's support enabled trAce Online Writing Centre to launch Writers for the Future, to raise awareness of, and participation in, the emerging genre of new media creative writing. The project is celebrated in The Print View of Writers for the Future, off

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