DESIS LAB @ HKDILWL drives social innovations through designing creative community involvement

Design for everyday life practices

Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

PEOPLE GROUP: What can a new design school contribute to existing communities? Under the HKDI’s visiting fellow programme, advance study projects were initiated to provide special training opportunities for design students to design with local communities around the new HKDI campus, employing real-life experiences and interdisciplinary collaborations to make social changes .

MATERIALS GROUP: Social actions with local communities around the school campus, motivating social changes through design. Supported by design researches of social/sustainability design in design education in particular the case studies featuring Hong Kong Design Practice

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Design role: to trigger social innovations, accumulate people’s innovation and design expertise and drive the design school to become agents of change.

Ultimately contributing to social development in local areas and knowledge exchange through the DESIS-China network and the global networks of DESIS LABs

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