The PolyU Jockey Club Operation SoInno Season 9 Summary and Action Project Report is now available for downloading. Click here to find out more.
Leveraging ideas and efforts generated from co-creation workshops and action projects, JCDISI established the "Furniture For Our Future" project and invited PolyU cross-disciplinary specialists to join force to come up with design parameters through translational research. With generous support from Hongkong Land HOME FUND, the team was able to refine furniture prototypes that are specially designed in order to support SDU children’s healthy growth and development.
In March 2022, we invited furniture manufacturers to execute the design concept of PolyU School of Design’s furniture prototype. Three tender submissions were received and a tender assessment panel consisting of JCDISI, Hongkong Land HOME FUND and PolyU cross-disciplinary representatives and other experts were formed to evaluate the submitted design proposals based on criteria such as quality, safety and innovativeness. Hong Kong Souven Limited was eventually selected the service provider for this project, further comments and suggestions were provided to ensure that the final product tailors to the actual needs of our potential SDU beneficiaries.
Refer to the Users’ Manual for more details regarding the SDU furniture.
Community Collaboration
JCDISI works closely with community organisations to expend our community network and extend our service to SDU families in need across districts. Prior to and during each community distribution campaign, we work with district NGOs to conduct site visits, organise briefing sessions, arrange delivery and volunteer services, as well as to collect feedbacks in order to evaluate our project impacts. The entire project is broken down into four phases, and we target to deliver the ergonomic furniture set to 2000 pre-identified families by mid-2023.
Email us at disi.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk or contact 3400 2837 if you are interested to apply for the furniture/ find out more about collaboration.
Hongkong Land HERE2HELP Volunteer Team
Formed by Hongkong Land colleagues, the "HERE2HELP" volunteer team are trained to assist special-conditioned SDU families to install the furniture sets and evaluate their further needs, in order to extend the impact HOME FUND has on the wellbeing of the society.
Providing All-round Support for SDU Families
Bringing Positive Impacts to SDU Families
In addition to providing hardware and software support, JCDISI also values community and users’ feedbacks. Below are some of the positive reinforcements our project has received so far:
Online surveys were conducted with beneficiaries to collect feedbacks and evaluate the impacts of the project. Statistics calculated upon 310 feedbacks we have collected are as per below:
Press Conference for “Furniture For Our Future” Project
The "Furniture For Our Future – For Families in Sub-divided Units" press conference was successfully held on 25th November, 2022 to celebrate cross-sector efforts that have gone into the ideation, design, manufacturing and community distribution processes of the SDU furniture set. We were proud to invite Prof. K.K. Ling, Director of JCDISI, Ms. Karen Lee, Project Manager (Spatial) of JCDISI, Ms. Natalie Wu, Head of Corporate Responsibility from Hongkong Land HOME FUND, Mr. Ho Chung Ho, Supervisor at Salvation Army Service, Prof. Henry Chan, Professor at PolyU School of Optometry and Dr. Kai Yip Choi, Research Assistant Professor at PolyU School of Optometry to share our project visions, collaborative modes and community impacts with the media. Not only did our event receive widespread news coverage, our project story had also been proudly featured in various local TV programmes, including RTHK’s "Hong Kong United" and TVB’s "A Dream Home Planning". Click here for detailed media coverage of the event.
CSS "Nam Cheong 220" Exhibition – “Our Housing Diary”
