Information of Design Week 2022 Presents ‘Regeneration by Design’
Hong Kong Design Centre celebrates 20th anniversary with theme ‘Design for Sustainable Neighborhood’
Debuting a brand new format, KODW 2022 to probe the urgency and potential of regenerative design
Audio system to incorporate greater than 30 subject consultants, entrepreneurs, and creatives from around the globe
HONG KONG, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Organised by Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), co-organised by Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and Faculty of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic College Faculty of Design (PolyU Design), along with Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area (HKSAR Authorities) because the Lead Sponsor, Information of Design Week (KODW) assembles over 30 business consultants, entrepreneurs, and creatives in fields together with structure and concrete planning, healthcare, and humanities and tradition to discover its 2022 theme ‘Regeneration by Design’.
Within the face of our quickly altering international panorama and a mounting local weather disaster, sustaining the established order via inexperienced initiatives is not going to be sufficient. A profitable transition into a really sustainable society requires a regenerative design mindset targeted on pivoting towards restoring and replenishing assets, placing a stability between financial growth and environmental well being.
From the innovation of supplies, mobility, and meals methods, to rebuilding city areas, empowering inclusive wellness, and reinventing e-commerce, KODW will highlight design ideas and case research rooted within the imaginative and prescient for a sustainable future.
Bringing KODW to prime time: An all-new expertise
This yr, HKDC celebrates its 20th anniversary underneath the theme ‘Design for Sustainable Neighborhood’. Facilitating an trade of concepts between the worlds of design, enterprise, and the general public sector, in addition to fuelling a synergy with different main artistic cities, KODW can be amongst HKDC’s thrilling year-round initiatives with Strategic Accomplice, the Netherlands, and its platform for artistic pioneers, CreativeNL, and Strategic Regional Accomplice, Guangzhou Design Week. Additionally becoming a member of as Strategic Cultural Accomplice is M+, Asia’s new museum of world visible tradition, the place this yr’s bodily occasions can be hosted.
For the primary time, KODW transforms the normal format of a global design convention right into a high-quality manufacturing on primetime tv, with talks to be broadcast on ViuTVsix on 24 September, 8 October, 15 October, 22 October, and 12 November alongside the bodily occasions at M+. The panel discussions will even be streamed on-line on bodw+ and on social media platforms to supply full entry to viewers everywhere in the world, whereas interactive reside chats can be hosted on Zoom to interact KODW’s worldwide viewers.
Taking sustainability to the following degree
Beneath ‘Regeneration by Design’, KODW 2022 seeks to outline new and improved paths ahead for various sides of society in 4 programme pillars: Regenerative Design for Our Ecosystem, Regenerative Design for Social Good, Regenerative Economic system, and The Way forward for Regenerative Tradition.
Famend of their respective fields, this yr’s panel of audio system embody:
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Dr Andrew Dent, Government Vice President, Analysis, Materials ConneXion (United States)
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Cherrie De Erit Atilano, Founding Farmer/President and CEO, AGREA Agricultural Techniques Worldwide, Inc. (The Philippines)
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Edwin Keh, Chief Government Officer, The Hong Kong Analysis Institute of Textiles and Attire (Hong Kong)
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Jack Moy, Chief Eexcutive Officer, Sustenir Group Pte Ltd (Singapore)
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Jiang Ying, Co-founder and Principal, O-Workplace Architects (Mainland China)
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Joe Iles, Round Design Programme Lead, Ellen MacArthur Basis (United Kingdom)
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Dr Louis Ng Chi-Wa, Director, Hong Kong Palace Museum (Hong Kong)
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Malcolm Wooden, Group Managing Director, Steelhead Group (Hong Kong)
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Miriam van der Lubbe, Inventive Head of Dutch Design Week 2022, Dutch Design Basis (The Netherlands)
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Niels de Jong, Accomplice and Inventive Director, Kossmanndejong (The Netherlands)
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Piet Hein Eek, Founder, Piet Hein Eek (The Netherlands)
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Queenie Man, Founder and CEO, The Undertaking Futurus (Hong Kong)
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Dr Sanjay Batra, {Hardware} Analysis Supervisor, Google (United States)
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Dr Saskia Visser, Program Supervisor Round and Local weather Impartial Society, Wageningen College & Analysis (The Netherlands)
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Suresh Balaji, Founder, Web3 Advertising and marketing Affiliation (Hong Kong) and extra
KODW talks can be livestreamed totally free on bodw+, the digital design data platform envisioned to develop into Asia’s main on-line design portal, with evergreen year-round content material that facilitates conversations on Design, Manufacturers and Innovation for a worldwide neighborhood. Along with the free Fundamental membership now accessible for registration, the platform now provides a model new Plus Membership offering privileged entry to KODW programmes on demand, masterclasses, unique provides for upcoming HKDC programmes, and particular reductions from bodw+ companions. To foster significant trade, companies around the globe might go for a Company Membership for complimentary entry to networking occasions, along with different perks reminiscent of limitless entry to unique content material, and promoting alternatives on bodw+.
Persevering with KODW’s longstanding goal to tell and interact its viewers with quite a lot of well timed design subjects, KODW 2022 will host eight open to public workshops and masterclasses going down from 22 August to twenty-eight October. These periods, which can be held in a mixture of bodily and digital codecs, are to be led by international consultants primarily based in Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the UK, and can discover varied takes on ‘Regeneration by Design’ from social, environmental, cultural, and enterprise lenses together with:
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Regenerative Design for Enterprise: Discovering Materials Improvements at The Fabrick Lab, led by Elaine Yan Ling Ng, Founder, The Fabrick Lab (HK)
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Person Manufacturers: Creating Enterprise Sustainable Manufacturers with X Pondering, led by Michael Lai, Dean, X Pondering Institute (CN)
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Growing Sustainable Options via LEGO Critical Play, led by Per Kristiansen, Accomplice, Trivium (DK)
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Meet the Creators of the Sandbox Metaverse, led by Sebastien Borget, Co-Founder and COO, and Erich Wong, Head of Progress, The Sandbox (HK)
Keep tuned for extra info on KODW 2022 and be taught essentially the most progressive approaches to regenerative design as we speak.
Register for bodw+ membership, free entry to the reside video, reside chat and early-bird reductions for the workshops and masterclasses for KODW at bodw.com.
Contact
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About Hong Kong Design Centre (www.hkdesigncentre.org)
Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is a non-governmental organisation, and was based in 2001 as a strategic accomplice of the HKSAR Authorities in establishing Hong Kong as a global centre of design excellence in Asia. Our public mission is to advertise wider and strategic use of design and design considering to create enterprise worth and enhance societal well-being.
About Information of Design Week (www.bodw.com)
Launched in 2006, Information of Design Week (KODW) provides an thrilling and premier international data platform for native and worldwide designers, model strategists, enterprise leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, educators and visionaries to share business insights, pattern evaluation, artistic options and game-changing innovation to remodel people, companies and the society.
About Create Hong Kong (www.createhk.gov.hk)
Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) is a devoted company arrange by the HKSAR Authorities in June 2009. It’s underneath the Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Bureau and devoted to spearheading the event of artistic industries in Hong Kong. Its strategic foci are nurturing expertise and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, and selling Hong Kong as Asia’s artistic capital and fostering a artistic ambiance locally. CreateHK has been sponsoring HKDC’s varied initiatives to advertise Hong Kong design.
SOURCE Hong Kong Design Centre
