HKDI 1st OPEN DESIGN FORUM, 28-29 Nov 

 

How might Hong Kong become more open as a society through our collective design efforts? 

 

HKDI DESIS Lab is staging a platform for citizens and international social design pioneers to investigate how they can co-create an open society[1] at the inaugural Open Design Forum, Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s home-grown Umbrella Movement is showing us new possibilities for civil relationships and responsibilities. At DESIS Lab, we believe that more open dialogues, facilitated creatively, can create a better future for everyday life in Hong Kong.

 

As such, over the course of the two-day interactive forum, more than 200 will have the opportunity to jointly explore and develop creative possibilities of openness through discussions on language, taboo, social roles and participate in designing a new possibilities.  We anticipate that active exchange mutual inspiration by creative citizens, professionals and social design experts will drive rigorous dialogue and exciting outcomes.

 

All dialogues and ideas generated from the Open Design Forum will be captured for HKDI’s imminent publication of ‘Open Dialogue for Design’. The publication aims to serve as a blueprint for future collaboration among organisations and individuals.

 

http://www.hkdi.edu.hk/opendesignforum/