World Design Summer Camp @ HKDI 

 

In July, the HKDI DESIS Lab also conducted a half-day workshop for the World Design Summer Camp (WDSC), organised by the Hong Kong Design Centre. As the students had been working on their own ideas to respond to the brief of social innovation for a week, we conducted the workshop to allow them to have a more focused understanding of their ideas, and more importantly to encourage them to test their ideas in a real community by interacting with real people. The groups were first asked to find one keyword for their project, and were then paired up with a relevant group. Then the paired-up groups went out to the neighbouring community of HKDI (Tseung Kwan O) and collected real life stories related to their ideas. The groups came back to the campus and performed their ideas and experiences at HKDI’s Design Boulevard. The whole experience reinstated to the students the importance of designing with people in real situations.