Deaf Loughborough student wins international competition to design hearing technology jewellery

Turning hearing tech into symbols of pride and individuality.

Gargi Agrawalla, a final-year Product Design and Technology student at Loughborough University, has won an international competition to design jewellery for use with cochlear implants and hearing aids and raise vital funds for a UK-based charity supporting deaf children.

 

 

Her ‘Junkyard Dog Flower’ design has now been made into jewellery by award-winning creators DEAFMETAL® and is being sold to help raise money for the charity Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK).

 

 

 

 

 

Gargi explained:

I’m thrilled to have won the competition with my design which was inspired by my personal journey navigating from hearing aids to cochlear implants throughout my childhood into young adulthood and celebrates the raw, layered nature of identity, resilience, and beauty.

Gargi’s winning design is one of two which are available now on the DEAFMETAL® website and 20% of the sales proceeds will go to AVUK to support more deaf babies and children across the UK.

Read the full story here:

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2025/april/student-designs-hearing-technology-jewellery/

 

 

 

21 April 2025