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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
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
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.