In-situ Project builds a Museum of Everyday Life and a School for Handicrafts for the Dong minority in Hunan

The Museum of Everyday Life and a School for Handicrafts completed in 2019 is a result of research based design project conducted by In-situ Project run by Kuo Jze Yi and Peter Hasdell, with project assistants Xing Xiao Bao, Liang Cheng Quan, in a collaboration between PolyU School of Design, Shenzhen University School of Architecture and the Lvgeng Social Work Development Center. The facility for the Dong minority community (also known as the Kam people 侗族) is situated in the Dong Lei village, in Hunan Province in China. In spring 2019, the village community decided to initiate a Community Cultural Classroom. The project aimed to exhibit local artifacts and their history, whilst hosting story telling events and organising cultural exchange events for visitors and tourists. In-situ Project with Lvgeng worked with villagers in a participatory design process employing a series of co-design workshops and community engagement events. These coordinated and integrated design processes including: the registration of local crafting techniques with the elderly village women-folk; artifact use and crafting documentation and book design with 10 village youths who interviewed and documented stories from the villager elders; exhibition method and design with the elder woman-folk of the village; and donation of timber and coordination of elder village men-folk and carpenters in the building of the Museum of Everyday Life and a School for Handicrafts in the existing village hall. The key achievement of the project was to encourage villagers’ participation on many levels, aiding the village cohesion and integration across gender and generation. The development of locally run programmes for the Community Cultural Classroom, enables villagers to strengthen their local culture and the uniqueness of Donglei village.  Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project Donglei Cultural Classroom project     Some of In-situ Project’s other works can be found on Instagram. Credits  Participating Villagers: 石友浓、杨彦盛、吴友花、莫换引、杨凡芝、吴永丰、莫婄少、吴跃海、杨行花、杨田引、 石婄花、杨祥鸾、杨秀雄、莫香美、莫庵鸾、杨鸾爱、杨先引、石平安、杨云凤、杨浓恋、 莫平妹、杨成妹、莫婄花、杨祥故、杨昌生、杨笑枝、吴坤兰、姚翠春、杨凡花、杨引兰、 杨婄浓、吴婄小、龙婄红、杨奉军、吴秀引、杨鲜花 粟开凡、吴祥林、吴远松、杨行岩、莫婄艳 Carpentry Masters: 石平生、杨行岩  Social Worker: Lvgeng Social Work (杨菁、刘云、杨孟枝、甘传)  Design Team: In-situ Project (Xing Xiao Bao, Liang Cheng Quan, Kuo Jze Yi, Peter Hasdell), Shenzhen University School of Architecture and Urban Planning and PolyU School of Design  Funding Support: Huaihua Civil Affairs Breau “Three District Plan” (三区计划)

‘S/ASH/IVING’ is an Architecture Masterprize & IFI GAP Gold winner

Congratulations to ‘S/ASH /IVING’, a project designed by our recent Environment and Interior Design graduate TAM Kwan Yiu Koko, on receiving several regional and international awards! The latest good news is received from this year's IFI Global Awards Program (IFI GAP) where Koko is named the Gold winner of the Student Category. The project was selected by the international jury members from 563 outstanding entries across 38 countries and regions.  The project is also the Prize Winner in Architectural Design / Mixed Use Architecture, Architecture Masterprize 2019; Best Interior Design, A&D Trophy Awards 2019 (full story); and Silver of the Student Category, 2019 APIDA.   The project is to design a place for individual millennial professionals (slash career workers). It should ideally be highly flexible, self-sufficient and sharable. It caters for the usages for different times in a day while introducing a sharing economy of furniture, space, and services. People no longer identify weekdays and weekends, as their jobs cover 24 hours, hence the change of spaces will be according to their needs. Transformable building parts are controlled by an app. Users may select their available timeslots for events, leaving this a multi-functional Workplace x Residential building. 'S/ASH/IVING' is set for the Yue Man Building, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Koko’s supervising tutor is Peter Hasdell. ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko ‘S/ASH /IVING’ by Tam Kwan Yiu Koko      

Application Deadlines: Non-JUPAS and International Admissions of BA(Hons) Scheme in Design

Final call!! Please be informed of the application deadlines for our BA(Hons) Scheme in Design 2020-21 entry as follows: Non-JUPAS admission: 20 February 2020 (extended)  International admission: 28 February 2020 Click here to submit your application now.   Please note that the application deadline for BA(Hons) in Digital Media and BA(Hons) in Interactive Media remains unchanged. Application for these two programmes has been closed. Further information: Non-JUPAS Year 1 Non-JUPAS Senior Year International admission BA(Hons) Scheme in Design learn more   learn more: Advertising Design/ Communication Design/ Environment and Interior Design/ Product Design/ Social Design learn more If you have missed our previous info seminars for Non-JUPAS applicants, you may watch the videos at https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/en/news/non-jupas-info-seminars-202001-videos  

Designing with Japanese locals

Students from our Social Design, Digital Media and Interactive Media programmes joined together to collaborate with 39 Media Engineering students from Chukyo University, Japan to work on topics of sustainability and local craftsmanship last summer, led by Teaching Fellow Mr. Alex Ho. The project theme is about sustainable development and gratitude education. The students stayed in Japan for eleven days, where they did contextual research with the counterparts by visiting the timber forest om Toyota, wood factory, local craft workshops as well as a hands-on one-day woodcraft class with a local carpenter. They also investigated and exchanged knowledge with Japanese students and local people on cultural differences, natural resources and local craftsmanship while having their own self-driven field research on digital media related topics which the Digital Media students were good at. At the end of the study trip, they held a public exhibition at the Toyota Parenting Integrated Center in downtown Toyota, showing their handmade wood and bamboo toys for children, and introducing the importance of sustainable use of resources and preservation of local craftsmanship to family visitors there, actualising what they have learned to affect others in the general public. Parents and children were invited to play their toys and were explained about sustainability and gratitude towards our mother nature. The exhibition made a perfect conclusion of the learning journey.   Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019 Collaboration between PolyU Design and Chukyo University 2019     Another 30 students from various departments of PolyU who took the subject of ‘SD2S01 Design and Build in Remote Community’ had their service learning experience in Keihoku, a remote countryside of Japan where a music festival held in September. The group led by Michael Chan and Ivy Kong was invited by the Kyoto government and its Education Department, and supported by Japan’s NGO Roots to contribute their cross-disciplinary knowledge to the local economy. Their mission was to attract tourists through architecture and a comprehensive marketing plan in a sustainable approach. Having conducted a research in the community and with local high school students, a tourist attracting treehouse was nicely built by the students from scratch in a spot surrounded by the natural environment. Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan 13 Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan Service Learning Experience in Keihoku, Japan      

Outstanding alumnus Raman Hui named the InnoStar

Mr. Raman Hui, winner of the Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award 2009, recently received the InnoStars Award 2019. He is among the six awardees who are recognized as outstanding Hong Kong people with remarkable achievements in innovation and creativity. The Award organized by the Our Hong Kong Foundation is established with the aim to inspire more Hong Kong people to engage in innovation and promote a diversified economy in Hong Kong. Congratulations! “The urge to overcome different challenges stimulates my creative ideas.” —Raman Hui, Animator and Film Director   With Raman’s enthusiasm for animation and unremitting efforts, he participated in the production of a series of celebrated motion pictures such as Antz and Shrek, and snatched over 30 international awards. Although he has launched a splendid career in animation in the US, he feels that his roots are still in Hong Kong. Raman returned to Hong Kong for the production of Monster Hut, in which he pioneered a daring trial of incorporating overseas experiences into Chinese traditions, and went on to swiftly break the box office record in mainland China. Having been on an adventure from Hong Kong to Hollywood by himself, Raman has come back to the China market. The disparate cultures and acculturation issues did not stop him, but it is exactly the urge to overcome these challenges that stimulates his creative ideas, showcasing the spirits of flexibility and innovation.      

Meatless Meat Relocation, Best of Show & Gold — HK4As Students’ Award 2019

As reported earlier that our Advertising Design students have received awards at the the HK4As Students' Award this year. A team was named the Gold Award winner which is also the Best of Show in Student Awards, and other teams won 3 Merit Awards. (full story)  The ‘Meatless Meat Relocation’ campaign is the Best of Show and Gold winner. The project team is consisted of 4 members: Cheng Tsz Yin, Cheung Chi Ho, Ng Wing Ki, Wong Chun Hei.  The Meatless Meat project aids meatless meat to move out from the meat area in supermarkets and stores and into the vegetable area where they are supposed to be.  Let’s take a detail look of what the campaign wants to do.   MEATLESS™ MEAT (Meatless Meat Relocation 重置家園計劃) Brief: Create an integrated campaign for the launch of Meatless Meat in Hong Kong  Problem and insight: When you do grocery shopping, you won't expect vegetables to be displayed in meat areas right? Yet we were surprised by our insights where many supermarkets would display meatless meat with frozen meat together. Meatless meat is like composed vegetable, it is made from ingredients like beans, especially soybeans and tofu, nuts, grains, seeds or mushrooms. Displaying these composed vegetable in meat areas is like trying hard to make them ‘fit in’ to the meat category. Hence, the Meatless Meat Relocation is an integrated campaign that helps meatless meat to be their real self – Vegetable. Solution: In order to own a real home of oneself, we helped them to move home to the vegetable area where they are supposed to be in, so that they don't have ‘fit in’ to the meat area, and they get to standout by being their real self. To do so, there are 3 stages in the campaign: First stage – Awareness: To get the attention of consumers with OOH print ads, and ask them to scan the QR code on the ads.    Second stage – Interact: The QR code will open the website of "Meatless meat real estate agency", where consumers can vote for the new home for meatless meat.  Third stage – Call for Action: To announce the result of meatless meat's new home to consumers by setting up Point of Sales around the vegetables areas.   Credits and Info: Awards: 2019 Best of Show – HK4As Kam Fan Students’ Award 2019 Gold – HK4As Kam Fan Students’ Award Copywriter: Cheng Tsz Yin Art Director: Cheung Chi Ho, Ng Wing Ki, Wong Chun Hei Photographer and Video Editor: Wong Chun Hei Website Designer and Developer: Cheung Chi Ho  

Videos: Non-JUPAS Senior Year Admissions Information Seminars

The application for non-JUPAS applicants for our undergraduate programmes will be closed on 20 Feb (extended deadline). If you have missed our information seminars for non-JUPAS Senior Year admissions on Jan 10, don't worry, here are the video clips for you to grab last-minute tips! Digital Media: https://youtu.be/btqiH9Er_x4 Interactive Media: https://youtu.be/33G9Q2OgrpQ Environment and Interior Design: https://youtu.be/YUoohiXabrk Communication Design: https://youtu.be/8cVzZrqWnNU Product Design: https://youtu.be/xIbBC-e8FJY Social Design: https://youtu.be/v7j6Y9Xy5CI Advertising Design: https://youtu.be/T1nSYKTy6Xg    

New Faculty Members On Board

A warm welcome to our new academic staff members! Professor Stephen Wang, Professor Prof. Stephen J. Wang joins the PolyU Design family from the Royal College of Art (RCA) where he was the joint Head of Programme for the Global Innovation Design and Innovation Design Engineering programmes.  He was also the RCA Director of the RCA-IIS Tokyo Design Lab and ITIDLab.com.  As a world-renowned expert in innovative design and tangible interaction design, he serves at the Australian Research Council as a detailed assessor and peer reviewer for a number of journals across the fields of design and engineering.  Prof. Wang is the inventor of the Virtual-Spine Platform (VSP) and has extensive experience and a strong track record of industry collaboration in the areas of intelligent architectural development, smart furniture, intelligent systems for healthcare, and medical devices and solutions. Prof. Wang will be contributing to the development of Interaction Design as a Professor with his interdisciplinary background that combines computational approaches for design. Full profile here   Dr Yi-Teng Shih, Assistant Professor PolyU Design's Product Design discipline will be welcoming Dr Yi-Teng Shih aboard as Assistant Professor.  He will join us with extensive teaching and research experiences in mechanical design, new product development, and design tools and processes.  Dr Shih joins us from Nottingham Ningbo's China campus.  He has considerable industry experience and his portfolio ranges from consumer electronics to healthcare devices, including projects for Brookstone, RadioShack, Beurer, FORA and JustHerb.  His supervision in design has won more than 50 international design awards and seven patents in the past few years, including the Red Dot Design Award, IDEA Awards, A’ DESIGN Award, European Product Design Award and The International Design Awards. Full profile here   Kevin Denney, Professor of Practice (Social Innovation) We are happy to announce that Mr Kevin Denney will be joining PolyU Design as Professor of Practice (Social Innovation).   Kevin is a Design Strategist.  He hails from Chicago where he did his graduate studies at the IIT, Institute of Design.  Kevin’s focus is on designing cities for health and prosperity.  In his work in industry and academia, Kevin emphasizes the importance of developing models and frameworks that enhance collaboration across domains. Kevin will work closely with our Associate Dean King Chung Siu and Associate Professor Newman Lau to provide strategic leadership for a project related to cities for health and wellness in addition to his teaching in the Social Design programme.  They will work on identifying funding opportunities. Full profile here

The Story of Hong Kong: Neon Sign

Welcoming Speech by Professor Kun-Pyo Lee, Dean of School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Valedictory Speech of the First Session by Graduate Representative Miss Tam Tsz Shan Valedictory Speech of the Second Session by Graduate Representative Miss Chan Ho Yee   Dated: 6 November 2019  

'The Arch', Best of Student Product Design at A&D Trophy Awards 2019

Introducing 'The Arch', winner of The Best of Student Product Design award at the A&D Trophy Awards 2019. The Arch is a furniture design that explores the idea of function following form; the movement of a person rolling over was translated into sections of the object. These sections were then joined, creating a long bench with a dynamic outline and changing topography. The size and shape of the arches below change with every section, annotating the movement in different states. Placed together as a complete bench, users can sit on both sides and fit into the PU foam with different postures. They can be separated or used in combinations: a sitting object with a side table, a sofa or a stool. Designed by: (Environment & Interior Design) Lai Pui Ying Venus, Lam Yuet Lai Timothy, Wang Yuanzhi Lesimo; (Product Design) An Bangning Benny, Chen Qixuan Mark Elective tutor: Henri Tung   Well done!