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Back Cover

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Ones To Watch

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International Design Calendar

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From December 2019 to March 2020, the highlights of the most interesting design and art events around the world.

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

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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

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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.

Special

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Design Students' Journey to the World

In educating the next generation of design talents, HKDI always emphasises interdisciplinary and overseas learning so that students can absorb broader knowledge and better understand themselves in an international context. In this issue, we interview five award-winning outstanding graduates from different design fields to learn about their signature works, and how their exploration abroad further inspired their design-learning and practices.

Bulletin - Students From Hkdi And Mmu Joined The Global Design Camp

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Bulletin - Hkdi X Art In Mtr --- "Tkl_We_Imagined" Exhibition

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Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is devoted to provide students with a wide range of art and design experiences, such as participating in the HKDI x Art in MTR -“TKL_WE_IMAGINED” Exhibition and Global Design Camp.

Contents

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Editorial

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The Future is Human-centred Design

In the following three issues of SIGNED we will explore the changing nature of design, and the growing trend toward putting people as the locus, and the focus, of designing more livable and sustainable societies.

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Issue Twenty Two Full Text

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Back Cover

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Student Award

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Worldwide Happenings

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Design Talents

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Bursting with ambition

HKDI alumni making a name for themselves

Every year, the Hong Kong Design Institute produces thousands of graduates across the many faculties it operates, including the Departments of Fashion and Image Design (FID), of Architecture, Interior & Product Design (AIP), and of Communication Design & Digital Media (CDM), to name a few. Among these outstanding design talents, a handful are already creating a name for themselves in the industry through competitions and awards. We asked some recent HKDI graduates what their long-term objectives are as designers. This is what they told us.

Denim Festival

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Celebrating nearly 150 years of denim culture

Case Study

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Co-ordinated communication path to Patchwork's success

Case Study

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Kudos for human touch of Kudoz

Feature Article

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Providing real-world services that actually work

Master Thinkers - Consultancy X Design - Iva Sladic Keco

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Master Thinkers - Architecture X Design - Aaron Tan

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Master Thinkers - Tech X Design - Bernard Suen

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Feature Article

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Governments opting for practice over theory