{"id":2440,"date":"2015-03-08T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2015-07-08T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:30:09","slug":"simin-qiu-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Simin Qiu &#8211; Mainstream Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalCollegeOfArt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2441\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalCollegeOfArt.jpg\" alt=\"RoyalCollegeOfArt\" width=\"184\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalCollegeOfArt.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalCollegeOfArt-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalCollegeOfArt-590x787.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><font SIZE=\"3\">| At certain points in history, communities of art and science have found themselves at odds: one focused on function, the other on form. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have seen that when the two work together, there can be amazing success. Cellphones have come a long way from the clunky Zack Morris variety. Hybrid cars are now something you wouldn&#8217;t actually mind being seen driving in. Today, in a world where environmental conservation and one&#8217;s carbon footprint is at the forefront of many people&#8217;s minds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/siminqiu\" target=\"_blank\">Simin Qiu<\/a> at London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_College_of_Art\" target=\"_blank\">Royal College of Art<\/a> has applied both his scientific and artistic mind to change the way we think about sink faucets and water usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2442\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5.jpg\" alt=\"water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5\" width=\"880\" height=\"1104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5.jpg 880w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5-816x1024.jpg 816w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-5-590x740.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a>From a button on its top, Qiu&#8217;s invention offers 3 unique and visually stunning looks for the water flowing out of a person`s tap. At the same time, water consumption is reduced by a whopping 15%! It accomplishes this with a double turbine moving in a spiral motion.<\/p>\n<p>Qiu won an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifdesign.de\/index_e\" target=\"_blank\">iF Design<\/a> concept award in 2014 and we hope his product to overcome whatever barriers to entry necessary to become mainstream as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2443\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4.jpg\" alt=\"water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4\" width=\"880\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4.jpg 880w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-4-590x394.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2444\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8.jpg\" alt=\"water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8\" width=\"880\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8.jpg 880w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-8-590x632.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2445\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6.jpg\" alt=\"water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6\" width=\"880\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6.jpg 880w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-6-590x724.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2446\" src=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1.jpg\" alt=\"water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1\" width=\"880\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1.jpg 880w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-conservation-swirl-faucet-design-simin-qiu-1-590x601.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">boredpanda.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Questions or comments<\/em>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"mailto:info@weshareinterests.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">info@weshareinterests.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Follow us on Facebook<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/sharedinterests\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>facebook.com\/sharedinterests<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Follow us on Twitter<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/interestsshared\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>@interestsshared<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| At certain points in history, communities of art and science have found themselves at odds: one focused on function, the other on form. We have seen that when the two work together, there can be amazing success. Cellphones have come a long way from the clunky Zack Morris variety. Hybrid cars are now something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25],"tags":[85,221,220],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-science","tag-asian-diaspora-stories","tag-eco-friendly","tag-simin-qiu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}