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Ones To Watch

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Emerging Design Talents 2022: Culture Future
2022年度設計展: 文化未來

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Architecture - Mario Cucinella On Green Architecture

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Architect Mario Cucinella shares his insights on building Green Architecture through collective intelligence, empathy and social responsibility alongside skillful designs.

Report - Vr For Pain Management

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HKDI has worked with different stakeholders on "VR for Pain Management", a well-being design project which adopts design thinking and innovative approach of digital media to develop a pain management experience for patients. The objective of the project is to provide a pleasant, low risk and easily tolerated option for the patients through VR game solution in order to achieve a medication-free surgery and operation.

Architecture - The Future Of Urbanism

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Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, discusses high-rise, topology optimisation and vertical urbanism in his inspiring Master Lecture at HKDI.

Beyond Design

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Martine Bedin recollects her Memphis days, where furniture existed beyond functions, and designs transcended borders.

Theme - A Feel For The Future Of Bioengineering

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Smashing martial arts boards with your prosthetic hand is not in the user manual, but, if it is called the Ability Hand, and if it is capable of doing that, then why not? Impressively, the same hand is also able to pick up individual raspberries with ease. Once a staple of science fiction, the future of bionic prosthetics is already here.

Theme - Sampling The Future Of Fashion

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Jørgen Sevild's session at HKDI Inspire (see Page 13) gave a peek into the frontier of digital materials technology, and the possibilities for it to reshape the fashion industry. Such a profound change is worthy of a deeper dive, and here we join Sevild to discuss the future of fashion.

Theme - A Step Beyond Wrapping Products

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For all its ubiquity and diversity, product packaging doesn't get the attention it deserves. What attention it does get is usually negative, and for good reason, as plastic packaging is choking the world's waterways and wreaking havoc on delicate ecosystems. However, there are important developments underway in the world of packaging, and we talk to industry thought leader Dr. Claire Sand to discover what is on the horizon for the humble product package.

Theme - Spider-Inspired Eco-Fabric

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Spinnova is made with minimal water, no harmful chemicals, produces zero micro-plastics, and is fully up-cyclable—the future of textiles may have just arrived.

Theme - Fungi Stakes A Claim In The Luxury Market

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When your company's first "alternative leather" product is released in partnership with iconic leatherware brand Hermès, it is an indication that fungi has serious credentials in the luxury fashion industry. Success has been decades in the making, but the people at MycoWorks are convinced they have developed a technology that will push the envelope of sustainable fashion.

Theme - Rethinking The Everyday : Material Non Material

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Report - Prototyping The Future

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Hosted by HKDI, the HKDI Inspire* Prototyping the Future 2022 in March is a three-day online conference event focusing on the current popular theme of artificial intelligence, digitisation and the metaverse. The lineup of this year's conferences includes Gerfried Stocker, Artistic and Managing Director at Ars Electronica, Jorgen Sevild, Director of Business Development and Client Strategy at INQOVA, and Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Chairman at Animoca Brands.

Project - Sustainability In Education

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At HKDI's Centre of Innovative Material and Technology, students and designers are constantly exploring how to achieve more possibilities for sustainability and upcycling through conscious material choices and innovative techniques.

Project - The Tree Project Vision

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Jockey Club "Tree Upcycling" Youth Co-creation Project.
HKDI DESIS Lab's Tree Project connects the youth through local trees.

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Editorial

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Issue Twenty Seven Full Text

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Ones To Watch

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Beyond 100
Transforming Design & Imagining Futures with Lab4Living

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Exhibition - The Parametricism Era

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Interview with Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Arcihtects

In light of the ongoing Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) exhibition in Hong Kong, we sit down with Patrik Schumacher, principal of ZHA, to discuss high-rise Architecture, Parametricism and the essence of ZHA design.

Exhibition - Purpose-Oriented Design

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Interview with Dr. Peter Zec, Founder and CEO of Red Dot

What constitutes good design? The question may return dozens of answers, be it aesthetics, functionality, innovation or convenience. In HKDI Gallery's latest exhibition in collaboration with Red Dot, The Essence of Design - Creating Value, value-creating takes centre stage.

Theme - What Can Nft Do Now?

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Arts Technology

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Extended Reality (XR) is a fast-developing technology with huge potentials yet to be discovered. Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are affiliates under this broader term. They can be used in combination or individually and can be applied in many fields, such as entertainment, art, education and professional training, just to name a few.

Theme - What Is Nft?

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Theme - Rethinking Everyday: Fungible Non-Fungible

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News - Opening Of Hkdi Centre For Communication Design

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The long awaited Centre of Communication Design at HKDI opens its door to students and faculty on October 7, 2021. From now on, it will become a powerful platform enabling students, faculty and industry partners to collaborate on live projects.

Report - A View On Young Designers' Inspirations

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3 HKDI alumni won DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2021. Alongside of their innovative, people-centred and sophisticated works, we also take a look at their academic and career journeys for some inspirations.

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