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Issue Twenty Four Full Text
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Back Cover
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Ones To Watch - Dress-Up Sai Kung
Ones To Watch - Dress-Up Sai Kung
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Jewellery - Jadeite Connections
Jewellery - Jadeite Connections
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
We sit down with three HKDI student awardees of the latest Hong Kong Fei Cui Design Biennial Contest, as they share stories and thoughts behind their fascinating jadeite creations.
Printed Passion - The 31st Hong Kong Print Awards 2020
Printed Passion - The 31st Hong Kong Print Awards 2020
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Hong Kong Print Awards returns as the city’s only professional print contest, proving the stronger-than-ever creative energy within local print-related design communities.
Theme - Shared Studios - Portals To Better Understanding
Theme - Shared Studios - Portals To Better Understanding
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Digital devices are a cornucopia of information, but they are also attention vortexes and a suit of armour protecting us from having to engage with nearby strangers. While often decried for its negative effects, one organisation is actively using the power of the internet to create global public spaces. People actively seek out strangers in these spaces, to learn about others, and better understand themselves.
Theme - Bakery Simplicity - A Recipe For Building Better Communities
Theme - Bakery Simplicity - A Recipe For Building Better Communities
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Baking and eating bread in a small group seems to have some sort of mystical power to break down barriers, not only between strangers, but between different races, ages, genders and worldviews. Now, every week in Amsterdam and surrounding areas, people are discovering this “power of bread” as it creates dialogue between neighbours, within communities, and between locals and the outside world.
Theme - Street Debater - Conversations For A Better Society
Theme - Street Debater - Conversations For A Better Society
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Something as simple as a set of scales and a provocative question is helping recast the dynamic between homeless people begging, and the multitude of people trying hard not to meet eyes as they pass by on the street. More than this, Street Debater points to the power of conversation as a way to help people in need that goes far beyond a few coins.
Theme - Greenkayak - Paddling To A Better Environment
Theme - Greenkayak - Paddling To A Better Environment
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For many people, tackling the serious and complex environmental problems we face can all be a bit overwhelming. GreenKayak, a Danish NGO, wants to put a positive spin on environmental action as a way to inspire more individuals to change their habits and outlook. Their plan— use the lure of a free kayak trip to help people appreciate the beauty and benefits of nature.
Theme - Goodgym - Fit Bodies Make Healthy Communities
Theme - Goodgym - Fit Bodies Make Healthy Communities
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
For most people getting fit, or sustaining a reasonable level of activity, is a chore. Forget high-tech solutions to this very modern problem, the key to staying fit, motivated and happy may be as close as your pair of jogging shoes.
Theme - Wellness By Design
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Interview - The Road Of My Cyber Physical Hands
Interview - The Road Of My Cyber Physical Hands
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Renowned Japanese designer Dai Fujiwara presents his latest Hong Kong exhibition THE ROAD OF MY CYBER PHYSICAL HANDS. Expect to see some of his never-revealed early works and be inspired by his Iatest design ideas. We hear from Dai about the concept behind his exhibition and ask for his advice for future designers.
Special - 2020 Dfa Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards
Special - 2020 Dfa Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards
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Fashion Endeavours
As cities continue to recognise the integrated role design plays in social developments, local design institutions bear both honour and responsibility in educating and exporting talents that can contribute to a functional-meets-beautiful future. Hong Kong Design Centre offers a variety of award mechanisms for local aspiring designers. Here, we take a look at its three recent design awards, and their respective winners from Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI).
Interview - Design For Well-Being
Interview - Design For Well-Being
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
“Design for Well-Being” is HKDI’s major education and collaboration direction in the coming few years. In this issue, we speak with Michael Chan, Deputy Academic Director (Design) of HKDI, to find out how the institute conceptualises and practises design thinking, educates and cultivates new generations of designers, and continues to design for human beings’ welfare.
Editorial
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Issue Twenty Three Full Text
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Back Cover
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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Ones To Watch
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
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International Design Calendar
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
From December 2019 to March 2020, the highlights of the most interesting design and art events around the world.
Interview - Hernan Diaz Alonso
Interview - Hernan Diaz Alonso
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Embracing Multiplicity and Disorder in Today's Architecture and design
Hernan Diaz Alonso visited Hong Kong this September to give a lecture under "HKDI inspire* Design Thinking 2019", which is part of a series of master lectures and workshops that aims to promote design thinking as a way to stimulate open questions and the continuous search for creative avenues beyond disciplinary and contextual boundaries. In this interview, Alonso shares his visions about the education and practices of architecture and design, and how design thinking will help to bring innovations in cultures.
Interview - Paul Chapman
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Virtual Reality as a Tool to Integrate Sciences, Arts, and Technology
As an expert, educator, and avid researcher in the field of virtual reality application, Dr Paul Chapman brings his insights to "HKDI inspire* Design Thinking 2019". His lecture, "Virtual Reality: Temporary Distraction or Real Opportunity?" explains and discusses the evolution of VR and future opportunities of utilising such technology. At the core of his technological and innovative endeavour, Dr Chapman still believes that empathy and establishing an understanding of endusers' needs are the keys to effective designs.
Exhibition
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How does design influence the modern world?
The exhibition “Design Does* - For Better and For Worse” presents a series of international designers' interactive projects.
Theme - Conclusion
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Social Design - Creating Positive Relationships
Having people at the centre of Design is important
Theme - Waag
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Social Design x Technology
The Waag Social Technology Ecosystem
So we have seen how people power can design vibrant communities and livable neighbourhoods, but can these social design principles be used to create technology that directly benefits ordinary people? One social technology organisation in Amsterdam is making a strong case that it is not only possible, but necessary to do just this.
Theme - City Repair
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City Repair - Designing Neighbourly Relations
Portland's colourful street intersections are redefining village life.
Are cities in the United States of America designed to isolate people and prevent them from building bonds of community? City Repair of Portland, Oregon, thinks this is the case, but they have a plan to change this by re-creating a sense of community one intersection at a time.
Theme - Studio-L
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Community Design in Japan
studio-L is Breathing Life Back into Declining Communities
While Tokyo remains the vibrant economic hub of Japan, many regional cities, towns and villages are struggling to generate adequate employment opportunities and provide basic social services to their dwindling populations. Forecasts for the continued decline of rural communities are widespread, but one company, studio-L, is at the forefront of efforts to use local resources and local creativity to revitalise communities on the margins of Japan's success story.
Theme - Introduction
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Creating Citizen Designers
This issue of SIGNED focuses on Social Design, and introduces three organisations that are bringing people together to collectively create better lives.