1. Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China
Design for everyday life practices
DESIS LAB @ HKDILWL drives
social innovations through designing
creative community involvement

2. PEOPLE GROUP: 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. MATERIALS GROUP: 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 innovations,
Collaboration accumulate people’s innovation and design
Inclusion
Co-creation
expertise and drive the design school to
become agents of change.
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