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Hyper Reality

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Advancements in camera technology have the potential to break down the barriers between actors and their audience, if not breaking the fourth wall, at least peering over the top of it. But does such new technology really benefit storytelling, or is it just spectacle for its own sake?

Poverty, Density And Sham Shui Po

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

The HKDI is bringing its own exhibition that focuses on Sham Shui Po from the Venice Architecture Biennale to our city

Moveable Feasts 舌尖上的地圖, Rachel Duffell

AMBROSIA 客道 : The Magazine of The International Culinary Institute

International travellers are increasingly keen to understand the places they visit, and with the need to eat being universal -- and delicious food relished by people everywhere -- gastronomic tourism is taking the world by storm. It's a boom that the hospitality industry must embrace.

國際旅客愈來愈渴望了解自己造訪的旅遊地點，由於每個人都需要食物，而且任何人都喜歡可口美食，因此美食旅遊的潮流正席捲全球。這是餐飲及酒店業必須掌握的趨勢。

Our Future Selves

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

In 2009, Dr. Yanki Lee initiated a series of projects to challenge the concept of ageing as a problem to be solved, choosing instead to cast the ageing process as unique experience for each individual and a culture from which design lessons can be drawn. Her research is leading to a series of innovative design projects that will benefit all segments of the community.

A World That Works For Every One

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

In 1979, twenty-six year old Patricia Moore disguised herself as a woman in her 80s and travelled to 116 cities throughout North America, to discover if urban design met the needs of the elderly. Dressed in her grandmother's clothes, she developed a unique form of immersion research that revitalised the role of architecture and design in our daily lives. Now she is working with the HKDI to develop solutions that work for all age groups. Here she lays out here passionate vision for the future of design.

Captured In Time

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Photographer and academic Tse Ming Chong's visual archive of Hong Kong's rapid development

Brave New Media

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

As technologies continue to evolve at bewildering speed, the varieties of content creation platforms under the umbrella term "new media" are ever changing. Summer Cao examines what the explosive pace of technological innovation in the media means for the creative community.

The Message Is Transmedia

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

You've heard all about multimedia, but what in the name of all that's digital is transmedia -- and what are the reasons for the excitement behind it? Jeremy Payne went along to a symposium at HKDI with a mission to find out from this discipline's leading lights.

Inner Self

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Hong Kong artist Pak Sheung Chuen is burnishing his already impressive reputation by creating work that seeks to understand the part of the self that is inaccessible through reasoning.

Dead Reckoning

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A brave man's unflinching attitude to his own mortality swept through the HKDI this autumn, and could have far-reaching influence on the community's attitude toward death.

Mythic Moments

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

An exhibition at HKDI this autumn aimed to introduce the power of photography through a series of family portraits that combined simplicity and emotional depth.

Small Mirales

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A new book that explores the homes of ordinary Hong Kong families reveals that the city's residents have designed intriguing solutions to the challenges of living in tiny apartments. Summar Cao talked to the book's authors and discovered that necessity can be more than the mother of invention.