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Issue Twenty Five Full Text

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Interview - Stories To Drive Change

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Domestic Data Streamers, a creative data firm founded by Barcelona native Pau Garcia, is driving changes in how people view and use data, both at home in Spain and abroad. Through interactive installations and exhibits, as well as innovative product designs, the studio is proving there's more to data than precise mathematics and unchallenged objectivity.

Ones To Watch - Miffy

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Back Cover

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Theme - Values-Based Design As A Path To Action

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Modern life is burdened with so many problems that even when a project succeeds, it can leave one with a sense of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. However, there is cause for optimism. As the preceding stories make clear, things get better when people get connected. Professor Kees Dorst helps us to understand this process and its importance.

Interview - Design By People, For People

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Yanki Lee, founding director of HKDI DESIS Lab for Social Design Research, returned on campus to speak at the Design Thinking lecture series. Titled Design by People, for People, the lecture zooms in on the relationship between design and human beings. With over 20 years of experience in design research and education, this is both a topic Dr. Lee has deeply explored, as well as what she believes to be the future direction for the field of design.

Theme - Tableware Designed With Love

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Eating is such a fundamental and enjoyable part of being human. However, for those dealing with age-related conditions such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease the simple task of feeding oneself is far from straightforward. Struggling at mealtime not only endangers ones' health, but just as importantly, it comes with a sense of helplessness and embarrassment that causes additional emotional suffering and puts stress on relationships.

Theme - A Toy For The Twenty-First Century

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A toy originally designed to help the visually impaired navigate their way through unfamiliar territory, is being put into practice in the sighted community as a fun way to learn the foundational skills of empathy and thoughtful communication. The Empathy Toy is a collaborative puzzle game that can only be solved when players learn to understand each other, and it has something to teach us all.

Theme - Sharing About Death Gives Meaning To Life

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Sitting in a group talking about the best ways to finish up one's life may seem a bit morbid, but the reality is it can be very life-enhancing. All too often important things in a person's life go unsaid – it can be a heavy burden to carry, and can leave scars of regret after it is too late. In England a new, but reassuringly familiar way to tackle such heavy subjects is starting to take root.

Theme - Functional Fashion Is A Bridge To Society

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Slipping on a coat, or pulling off a t-shirt are reflex actions for most people. Now imagine that every time you had to do this meant asking for help. Even more intimidating, when out in public what if you had to make this request to a stranger. Open Style Lab has set itself the mission to help reduce such daily struggles for people living with a disability.

Theme - Designing For Basic Human Needs

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Design, and designers, exist in a complex new age and work within a vastly increased range of actors and design considerations. Beyond the creation of a standalone product or service, successful design is now also gauged on how effectively connections amongst people, products, and services are realised. Consequently, the 2020 series of Signed is dedicated to understanding why people's need must always be the starting point for any designed solutions.

Bulletin - Music Therapy Tea House; Human Light; Reasy; Design Thinking Pmq

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This issue, we bring you the latest award-winning designs from students and alumni of Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), and an introduction to the unique E5 design thinking actions developed by HKDI's very own Design Thinking team.

Special - New Generation, New Force

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Emerging Design Talents returns in 2020 with a diverse line-up of online exhibitions and virtual activities. The annual design show presents a curated selection of cross-disciplinary works ranging from Fashion and Image Design, Communication Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Digital Media and more. This year's theme is “Design for Well-Being”, both a prompt reflection on today's social needs and an advocation for better living.

Editorial

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Contents

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Issue Twenty Four Full Text

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Cover

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Back Cover

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Ones To Watch - Dress-Up Sai Kung

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Jewellery - Jadeite Connections

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Interview - The Road Of My Cyber Physical Hands

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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

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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

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“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.