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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.

Cover

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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

Studio Showcase - Layer

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Founded by award-winning British design entrepreneur Benjamin Hubert, Layer is a close­knit team of industrial and digital designers, engineers, artists, researchers and branding specialists from around the world. They create products that they hope will help define the way we live, work, travel and communicate in the future, from smart wearables and furniture systems to the next generation of Al and communication tools.

Situated in the heart of East London, Layer aims to "transform human-centred insights into evocative design stories that resonate with people and their lifestyles". The firm has received three Highly Commended accolades at the Fast Company's annual …

Studio Showcase - Way Studio

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Way Studio is an innovative architecture and design studio with a focus on coalescing architecture with art and technology. It has focused on discovering new possibilities through cross-disciplinary collaborations. Its scope of work covers urban planning, cultural projects such as galleries, museums and opera houses, mixed-use buildings, architectural renovations, residential projects, exhibitions and installation designs. Its collaboration with other disciplines "results in an adaptive, flexible approach and methodology in our work".

The studio has done a lot of inter-disciplinary work alongside artists, designers, consultants, engineers and others, always with a focus on finding new ways of doing things. It says …

Studio Showcase - Oppenheim Architecture

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Oppenheim Architecture is an award-winning architecture, planning and interior-design firm specialising in hospitality, commercial mixed-use, retail and residential buildings worldwide. It has received many honours, including some 45 AIA Awards and the 2018 National Design Award for Interior Design by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. The firm's work is built on "both a physical and spiritual contextual sensitivity, supported by evocative and economic design solutions that all serve to enhance life".

The company's buildings are "crafted to establish the perfect balance between artistry and economics - timeless architecture that is as beautiful as it is functional". With projects spanning …

Studio Showcase - Perceptual Thinkers

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Perceptual Thinkers draws inspiration from the behaviour and clothing preferences of people living with autism. Its clothing lines aim to give an insight into this specialist perception by using stimulating fabrics and playful design patterns to experience clothing as a sensorial phenomenon.

It believes that the clothes are a means of communication - that the way we dress is the way we interact with other people. And that clothes are capable of serving many different needs, either completely ordinary or special ones.

Because they follow the ethos of design for all, these clothes are as suitable for neurotypical people as …

Feature Article

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Muddied oafs or deep Design Thinkers?

Hkdi Happenings

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