At the end of 2025 Dominic’s book of thought provoking and bonkers invention ideas was expanded and made available on the webshop here.

In 2022 Dominic Wilcox’s organisation Little Inventors and CRIN challenged children to better understand climate change and encouraged them to use their brilliant imaginations to think of ideas to better protect the planet. The two challenge themes were: biodiversity and living more sustainably. 

After uploading their inventions here, a selection of the most inspiring ideas were chosen to be brought to life! These ideas were showcased at events, including at the UN Human Rights Council, encouraging adults to listen to children and involve them in climate decisions. See the project here

2 June 2019 – October 2020

Dominic Wilcox’s Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car of the Future is on show at London’s Science Museum for the 18 month free exhibition ‘Driverless: Who is in Control?’.

“Artificial intelligence is gaining an ever-increasing presence in our lives. Everything from deep-sea exploration to getting a cheeky take-away is being reimagined with some form of automation.

Technology developers are racing to create fully autonomous machines with the ability to make decisions on their own. How many of these smart machines already exist? And how much control are we willing to transfer to them?

Discover more in this cutting-edge exhibition through interactive exhibits, thought-provoking objects and even a retro robot car. Driverless will give you a unique glimpse into the AI-driven tech that could shape the habits, behaviour and society of tomorrow. “

Dominic was challenged by Microsoft Surface to design a couple solutions to everyday problems for an exhibition at the D&AD Festival.

Dominic’s ideas were a ‘One Foot Taller‘ periscope glasses device and a jacket to solve the problem of not knowing what side to walk past an oncoming person.

Check out the project I started in Hull at the end of 2016 (though didn’t put it online until March 2019), I started a Lost and Found Office of the odd and unusual. It is a fictional place where things that no one knows what they are or what they do go. The office then asks the public for their imaginative ideas about them.

Visit a page here or the full website below

www.officeofodd.com

Due to the incredible success of the Inventors! project we have now launched it as an organisation called Little Inventors.

We will work with schools and organisations around the world to take the project global.

We have been nominated for a WIRED Audi Innovation award and already connected with orgs around the world.

This includes NSERC the national science and engineering council of Canada.

Check out our new website to see the children’s ideas or get involved.

www.littleinventors.org

19t-20th August, 2016

Dominic Wilcox creates an art exhibition especially for dogs.

See all the pictures here.

The exhibition of the INVENTORS! project has opened in Sunderland. Over 450 children(and some adults) were asked to draw their own inventions then local makers made a selection of them into real things. See the project website for all the ideas and made inventions. www.inventorsproject.co.uk

Steam Co. is teaming up with Dominic Wilcox to stage one of their regional launch events as the culmination of Inventors! , Dominic’s art commission that is inspiring young people across Sunderland and South Tyneside to become the next generation of North-East inventors.

Announcing the INVENTORS! STEAM Co. Day – a day of short talks and creative activities at Monkwearmouth Academy in Sunderland on Friday, 29 January 2016.

Apply for your tickets here and hopefully we’ll see you there!

‘Inspiring tomorrow’s creatives, innovators and inventors’ 

http://www.steamco.org.uk/inventors

This Autumn Dominic Wilcox has been encouraging the people of Sunderland and South Tyneside to return to their inventing roots. From October 2015 Dominic worked with schools, community groups and the public across the Cultural Spring wards to inspire as many new Inventors! as possible.Over 500 people have taken part in workshops and we have collected hundreds of invention ideas that will all feature in the exhibition.

A selection of drawings have been chosen by Dominic and a panel of local makers, expert trades people and manufacturers which will then be made in to real life inventions.

Thank you to everyone that took part in a workshop or sent us their invention idea – we have been blown away by the huge range of ideas and creativity.

Inventors! Exhibition 16 – 30 Jan 2016

The Inventors! Exhibition will open on Saturday 16th of January at 18 Fawcett Street, Sunderland SR1 1RH.

Come and see the vast range of ideas produced during our Inventors! workshops, from the wacky and absurd to the wonderfully simple and useful. Find out which ideas have been transformed by our team of makers into real objects, 2D designs or animations. The exhibition will also be the first chance to see exciting, new pieces of work by Dominic Wilcox.

Exhibition Opening Times 12pm – 5pm, closed Sundays