Congratulations to our PhD graduates of 2018

The conferment of Doctoral Degrees and Honorary Degrees for this cohort will be held this Sunday. Our heartiest congratulations to the following PhD graduates of 2018! CHENG Peiyao  CONTRERAS GARCIA Giovanni Jesue LI Wenhua  SHEEN Kimberly Anne  SOYINKA Oluwole Abayomi TSANG Ka Man ZHANG Mengting Feel interested in their research topics? Visit our PhD Research page.

Sparkle! Journal of a City Foot Soldier

Our Research Assistant Professor Melissa Cate Christ is co-presenting the ‘Sparkle! Journal of a City Foot Soldier’ exhibition with other artists on a narrative from the perspective of a city walker at Oil Street Art Space in North Point from 5 Oct 2018 to 6 Jan 2019. Melissa’s and her colleague Susanne Trumpf’s installation includes re-interpreted selections from her Hong Kong Stair Archive. The work responds to the theme of the exhibition in that they re-envison a commonly (un)seen typology of pedestrian infrastructure: the outdoor public staircase. Exhibition details: http://bit.ly/2Ejh5Ci Hong Kong Stair Archive: http://stairculture.com/ (photo source: Hong Kong Stair Archive)

The Conferment of Doctoral Degrees and Honorary Degrees 2018

The conferment of Doctoral Degrees and Honorary Degrees for this cohort will be held on 28 October 2018, Sunday. Our heartiest congratulations to the following PhD graduates of 2018! CHENG Peiyao                     CONTRERAS GARCIA Giovanni Jesue LI Wenhua          SHEEN Kimberly Anne   SOYINKA Oluwole Abayomi TSANG Ka Man ZHANG Mengting Feel interested in more of our PhD research topics? Visit HERE.      

Product Design Student won the World Sneaker Championship 2018

   We are thrilled to know that BAO Qiancheng, our Year 4 Product Design student won the PENSOLE World Sneaker Championship 2018. His impressive design is inspired by the perspective lines of the crowded skyscrapers and neon signs in the metropolis Hong Kong. These inspirations become the radical direction shoe lace system and the translucent soft TPU bar fused on the shoes. The design outcome has a clean and iconic silhouette and innovative structure, which makes it stand out from all the competitors. Qiancheng comes from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and was admitted via China’s JEE.  PENSOLE is founded by the famous sneaker designer D’wayne Edwards who was the chief designer of Nike Jordan Brand. His most famous design is Jordan XXI. A limited quantity of Qiancheng’s winning design to be branded PENSOLE will be produced and sold at select Foot Locker stores globally.   Congratulations to Qiancheng!    

‘Lamb Lamp’ received a bronze in A’Design Award

Congratulations to Benny Leong, Kenny Chow and Brian Lee on winning a bronze prize in the A’Design Award with ‘Lamb Lamp’, a technology-enhanced interactive home facility targeted to enhance family cohesiveness and mitigate the harmful effects of mobile phone overuse for teenagers. The team has been collaborating with the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment (ICAPT) on a trial with families and a plan on conducting community design workshops for 90 families to custom design their own “Lamb Lamp” in the next phase. More about the project    Media Coverages: 理大團隊設計獲國際獎 互動燈助放下手機敘天倫 (Ming Pao Daily, 27 September 2018) 理大研發「羊燈」 助戒手機癮 (Sing Tao Daily, 27 September 2018)  

Arrival of Cubic Journal Issue 1: Design Social | Technology - Activism - Anti-Social

Announcing the arrival of Issue 1: Design Social | Technology - Activism - Anti-Social. Editors: Gerhard Bruyns & Peter Hasdell. With contributions by a number of academics and social activists. The issue is for sale at Jap Sam Books and available online at http://www.cubicjournal.org     

CALL FOR PAPERS: CUBIC JOURNAL #3 DESIGN MAKING

CALL FOR PAPERS: CUBIC JOURNAL #3 DESIGN MAKING: THE VALUES HAD, THE OBJECT MADE, THE VALUES HAD | PRACTICE – MAKING – PRAXIS Editors: Daniel Elkin, James Stevens, Clifford Choy Submit by 1 January 2019 ///////////////////////////////////////////// As the 21st Century moves into its third decade, technological and societal changes re-propose the act of making, the actualization of design agency and desire, in wholly different contexts. Digital craft, legitimized both physically and a-physically as work “practiced to achieve consistent outcomes,” (Diderot, 1969), redefines the movement from desire to reality as continuous, defuse in character, and decentralized in assignation of value. In this space, the designer is simultaneously more and less agent than ever before: he or she is able to capably make, craft, or manufacture without extravagant privileges of capitalization, but also positioned in questionable relevance as his or her extravagant privileges of taste and access are jeopardized by consumer model 3D printers and free digital modeling software (“Model 1 3D Printer,” 2018). The “continuous, visual [production] of singular form,” (McCullough, 1998), a competency once central to design’s relationship with the physical, is borrowed by other disciplines, while new competencies essentialise themselves…read more at http://www.cubicjournal.org/wp/issue-3-design-making/       

Environment and Interior Design Student being key member presenting FAIRYLAND PLAYSCAPE

What should the ‘playground of tomorrow’ look like? The ideal play space for the future generation should have several key elements. What are they? See—and experience—for yourself at this fun, interactive and out-of-the-box playscape which is now shown until 31 October at chi K11 art space. The playscape is designed based on an in-depth research by Manfred Yuen of Groundwork and his team including Hebe Lee, our Environment and Interior Design year 3 student who was a summer intern of the company. They gave advice on the future public playgrounds’ policies and presented how future play spaces should be in the space. Project details     

OPAA Master Class Mentorship Programme: Recruitment of Student Mentees from School of Design

Please send your nomination to the Office of Careers Placement Services (CAPS) (email: cynthia.py.lam@polyu.edu.hk / 3400 3768) by 7 October 2018, together with the English resume and filled mentee’s survey form.  Shortlisted students will be invited for an interview by CAPS in September/October 2018.  Please refer to the attached e-poster with further details of the Mentorship Programme.         

Plan Cool: call for participants

Join us on 29 September (Saturday) with other environmental advocates to show your care for our planet Earth! PolyU Design is joining hands with South China Media and other leading local green groups and advocates to present a public event to be held on 29 September where 1,000 people will fold eco-paper fans together to express their concern for extreme weather and arouse public awareness of the global climate change. Follow these links for details and REGISTER: https://bit.ly/2BTbUbj  不少設計師將改善人類生活視為其天職，近年對於環保、可持續發展等方面貢獻良多，對氣候改變極為關注。 今次理大設計響應南華傳媒推出的大型環保企劃「迎戰16度」，一同與本地環保權威及團體合作籌劃「迎戰 16 度」首項大型活動「9‧29 千人摺扇傳愛」，屆時將與千人摺扇抗溫，本地環保權威亦於現場一同探討如何應對極端天氣，希望喚醒大眾對氣候議題的關注。 活動大使林奕匡、梁釗峰、陳健安 、鄧小巧、黃淑蔓及黃妍更以歌聲全力響應。  日期: 2018年9月29日 (星期六) 活動時間: 下午4:30-6:30 (請於3:15-4:15登記) 地點: 香港輔助警察總部 (九龍灣宏照道12號) 服飾: 藍色或白色上衣 拯救地球，刻不容緩，我們極需您的參與! 報名：https://bit.ly/2BTbUbj