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While many people are working and learning from home under the COVID-19 pandemic, PolyU Design has been organising a wide range of activities online to stay in touch with secondary schools and other prospective students. In addition to the online lecture series conducted earlier in June, another well received activity is the Live Chat with Design Students. More than 18 sessions were organised within 4 months, attended by around 470 students and teachers from 21 secondary schools. In these Live Chats, our design students shared their first-hand tips on getting into their dream design programmes, and their fruitful campus experience. The interactive and pressure-free conversations helped many students understand what design programmes teach and what design students do. It gives them directions to choosing study path that fits their interests and aspirations. Other online activities like info webinars at the virtual university fairs or events were held to provide information about the school to our overseas and mainland Chinese audience.
Another highlight is the ‘WHAT DESIGN’ Summer Programme for secondary school students and teachers on 6-7 August 2020. This annual event aims allowing prospective students to learn basic knowledge of our four disciplines namely Advertising Design, Communication Design, Environment and Interior Design, and Product Design offered under the BA(Hons) Scheme in Design through hands-on exercises. The most rewarding part to many participants is the series of interactions with our faculty members, design students and participants from different schools. This year, around 90 participants from different secondary schools in Hong Kong joined the two half day programme featuring disciplines’ introductions, two workshops on 2D and 3D design topics respectively. It targets to provide them with a comprehensive understanding of design and help them identify which discipline they would like to pursue further studies for. The participants were asked to team up for tasks during workshops. In the Advertising Design workshop (2D), each participant was requested to pick an object that is important to him/her, and tell the class why. Through the exercise, they learned to grab the key point and communicate with an image – this is the essential skill of designing an advertising campaign.
In the Communication Design workshop (2D), students tried to analyse logos and explain what work well on them to learn about the importance of branding and visual identity.
Many performed very well at the Environment and Interior workshop (3D) ‘Understanding Public Spaces in Hong Kong’. The participants chose their favourite space in Hong Kong and analysed it regarding its planning, aesthetics, materiality and culture. In the meantime, those who joined the Product Design Workshop (3D) were tasked to redesign a product and create something new which gave most of the students the best moment throughout the summer programme.
To most of the participants it was their first time joining online workshops. The group discussions was the most popular part throughout the workshops. A parallel stream of the Summer Programme was tailor-made for secondary school teachers. They were invited to observe students' sessions and attend a discussion with the faculty members of PolyU Design on burning issues of secondary school design and visual art education, and the collaboration opportunities mutually benefiting both university and secondary schools.
Contact us for booking a tailor-made online activity for your school now. Both local and overseas schools are welcome. |
| Topics | News | Students | Product Design (BA) | Advertising Design (BA) | Communication Design (BA) | Digital Media (BA) | Environment & Interior Design (BA) | Interactive Media BA | info session | Scheme in Design |
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