1. DESIS Lab @ HKDI (VTC)
Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China
Design for everyday life practices
DESIGN.LIVES LAB drives social
innovations through designing
creative community involvement

2. Context: 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 .

3. Projects: 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

4. Ingenuity Design role: to trigger social
Collaboration innovations, accumulate people’s innovation
Inclusion and design expertise and drive the design
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