Asia Social Innovation Award 2014

 

At the Asia Social Innovation Awards 2014, DESIS Lab was awarded Best Development Potential Award and Best Multimedia Award - the only contestant to have been awarded in more than one category - for the Open Diamond Project. The Open Diamond Project, led by the graduate trainee at the lab Katie Wong, aims to encourage more people to get into the driver’s seat to decide ahead of time matters relating to their passing on. One element involves designing “Memorial Diamonds” whereby diamonds are created from cremated remains of the passed-on loved one.