INTERNATIONALER DESIGN WORKSHOP HK 2: Almost Utopia 

International Design Workshop 2016

Master of Arts in Design in collaboration with Connecting Spaces Hong Kong and local designers, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists.
Nummer und TypMDE-MDE-Workshop-2000.16H.002 / Moduldurchführung
ModulMinor Internationaler Workshop 2.Semester 
VeranstalterDepartement Design
LeitungProf. Michael Krohn, Karin Zindel

- Yanki Lee
- Kacey Wong

- Michael Leung
ZeitMo 19. September 2016 bis Fr 23. September 2016
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 9
ECTS2 Credits
Voraussetzungenkeine
LehrformFour different workshops with Hong Kong based designers, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists.
ZielgruppenMDE Studierende 2. Semester
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Which qualities define a "creative city"?
  • What potentials are there from a designer?s perspective?
  • How may creative strategies and new technologies improve the city and the life of its inhabitants?
  • How can the obtained knowledge and results be presented?
InhalteCreative City - The city as a living laboratory

The city is an extremely complex system. Even if we try to understand it, we can hardly cope with it. Despite all its dysfunctional challenges, the city is the place where most of the citizens will live in the near future. It offers great diversity, vitality, and in the best case economical security. It brings people together from different
cultural, social and economical backgrounds, with completely different needs and behaviours. To ensure conscious and civic coexistence, these conditions must be considered, and at the same time questioned. They demand both, careful understanding and holistic thinking. The process of understanding these distinct needs requires a widely imaginative mindset, and is a practice of constant negotiation.

How can we as designers negotiate a common, public space, and construct a city that builds on collective
thinking ? away from a stack of individual needs? In order to do so, we must engage with the process,
collaborate with each other, and stimulate a creative city.

To promote a creative city we need to identify potentials and strive for innovative approaches. And, the first stage to build a creative city is to recognise and encourage diversity, learn to deal with the complexity of different aspects, and control our own destiny. Based on this idea, this year?s International Design Workshop focuses on the concept of the ?creative city? from the perspective of different design disciplines. We herewith aim to discuss, explore, and experiment with the potential of the design practice and thinking within a creative city. Therefore, we define the city of Hong Kong as the living laboratory for our workshop, and propose an intensive one-week empirical confrontation with a foreign context. To establish a closer relationship with the city, we invited four Hong Kong based professionals designers, researchers, and artists ? to run individual workshops to the given topic.

In this way, we expect our students to become acquainted with the city of Hong Kong from a more inclusive perspective ? to learn from a different culture and urban reality, and to sharpen their knowledge of the city as well as the man-made environment from a broader view. Finally, we wish to motivate them to come up with creative approaches and inventive solutions by elaborating strategies and methods that might be applicable to their own design practice. The city of Hong Kong will be the laboratory to explore and the Connecting Space the place to define and produce the different concepts.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungAnwesenheit, Abgabe des Resultates
TermineDuration: September 19th to 23rd 2016, Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm
Start: Monday Sept 19th from 9am to 11am, introduction guest lecturers and each workshop-session
End: Friday Sept 23rd from 6pm to 8pm, public presentation & discussion
Dauer1 Woche
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BemerkungEnglisch als Kurssprache