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The past decade has brought more unprecedented challenges than ever to the design community. Existing design theories and methods are no longer valid, while the core competencies of designers are being increasingly replaced by technology and further democratised by everyone. While conventional design problems are being handled by non-designers and technology, new types and scales of design problems are emerging.
We believe that this range of problems have become far too complex and large in scale for any one single design discipline to manage. Design methods, therefore, cannot come from any one single design discipline and may need to be radicalised entirely. Team members working together to create new methods are a far more powerful and valuable takeaway than the actual design outcome.
Here, we present seven Integrated Capstone Projects, through which our final-year bachelor students, coming from different design disciplines, encounter new problems, experiment with new processes, and co-create new mindsets.
Kun-pyo Lee
Dean, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Background
In the 2020-21 academic year, Prof. Kun-Pyo Lee, Dean of PolyU School of Design, launched the Integrated Capstone Project (InC) as a project option for all final year students. Students who joined InC (1) worked on inter-disciplinary entrepreneurial projects, under the guidance of a team of tutors from different fields, and (2) learned to strategically design socio-technical and ecological systems.
The InC of 2021-22 is the second trial. We have 28 BA design students coming from six design disciplines (product design, communication design, advertising design, environment and interior design, interactive media, and social design), working on seven projects. The topics students are working on cover complex social, urban, and ecological problems, and include urban reactivation and co-creation, mask recycling and sustainability, air purification and STEAM education, public understanding of SEN children and family, community food scrap collection and soil care, and future work mobility. The projects will be documented as a book and exhibited at the Central Market from late-June to July in 2022.
Projects
GENINS: A Mobile Pop-up Creative Exhibition about SEN
Tutor – Roberto VILCHIS ECHEVERRI
Communication Design – Cathy LEUNG
Communication Design – Joyce TSUI
Environment and Interior Design – Marco CHAN
Product Design – Joyce LIU
Product Design – Yenn LEUNG
Fungi-Up: Turning Community Food Scraps into Nutritious Soil
Tutor – Kam-fai CHAN
Advertising Design—Echo MAO
Environment and Interior Design – Yoyo CHAN
Interactive Media – Bonnie LEUNG
Dr. Woven: A Sustainable and Harmonious Community Reactivation Scheme
Tutor – Horace PAN
Environment and Interior Design – Gulu TANG
Environment and Interior Design – Wing LAW
Product Design – Miko WONG
Social Design – Joey WONG
ANSA: Future Work and Life
Tutor – Dr Bruce WAN
Advertising Design – Bernard CHUNG
Communication Design – Sharon CHOI
Environment and Interior Design – Joannie WONG
Interactive Media – Sally LEUNG
Product Design – Alfred CHOW
PURICUB: A Sustainable STEAM Air Purifier Supported by Hong Kong Youth
Tutor – Dr Yi-teng SHIH
Advertising Design – Cassandra CHAN
Environment and Interior Design – Joyce IP
Product Design – Vanessa CHOI
Product Design – Gary MAK
RECOMASK: Recycling Masks for Sustainable Education
Tutor – Stefan SONNTAG
Advertising Design – YoungBeen JUNG
Interactive Media – Yannis KWOK
Product Design – Taya MOROZ
JAPJAP: A Domestic Food Waste Self-Service Recycling Station
Tutor – King-chung SIU
Communication Design – Chloe WONG
Communication Design – Vivian YUEN
Environment and Interior Design – Rosie CHAN
Product Design – Alvin LIU
過去十年，設計界面對更多前所未有的挑戰。原有的設計理論和方法不再是金科玉律。科技的發展，使設計師的某部分工作可以改由電腦代勞，亦令設計這項專業技能對普羅大眾而言不再是遙不及可。現在，外行人透過運用相關科技，對一般的設計問題也能應付自如。然而，這個新時代亦衍生了一些在類型和規模上有別於以前的設計問題。
我們認為，這一系列問題所牽涉的複雜性和規模已超越任何單一設計科目所能處理的範圍。因此，設計方案不能再依靠單一的設計範疇來獲得，有時甚至可能需要作出翻天覆地的改變。團隊成員共同研創新的方法，這個過程對他們而言比實質的設計成果更有意義和得著。
今年的「綜合設計專案」（Integrated Capstone Project）共有七個。來自不同設計學科的本科生在他們最後一個學年一同研究新的社會問題，以創新的方式進行試驗，在過程中互相啟發，共同創造新思維。
李健杓
香港理工大學設計學院院長
背景
在2020-21學年，香港理工大學設計學院院長李健杓教授推出「綜合設計專案」，作為可供同學選擇的其中一個畢業專題研究項目。該計劃分為兩個階段：首先，設計學院的學生組成跨學科團隊，各隊在來自不同界別的導師指導下進行專題研究；之後，各隊會學習如何策略性地設計出融合社會技術與生態環境的系統。
2021-22年度是第二年試行「綜合設計專案」，共有二十八名來自六個學科（產品設計、傳意設計、廣告設計、環境及室內設計、互動媒體及社會創新設計）的本科生分別參與七個專案。他們研究的範圍涵蓋複雜的社會、城市及生態問題，題材包括城市活化與共同創造、口罩回收再造與可持續發展、空氣淨化與STEAM教育、公眾對特殊學習需要兒童（SEN）和家庭的了解、社區廚餘收集與土壤護理，以及未來工作流動性。這些作品將會輯錄成書，並於六月底至七月在中環街市公開展覽。
參展專案
GENINS：關於特殊學習需要兒童的流動式創意展覽
導師—Roberto VILCHIS ECHEVERRI
傳意設計—梁瑋珊
傳意設計—徐傲兒
環境及室內設計—陳彥揚
產品設計—廖賢琳
產品設計—梁泳欣
Fungi-Up：將社區廚餘轉化成有營養的土壤
導師—陳錦輝
廣告設計—毛舒杭
環境及室內設計—陳樂瑤
互動媒體—梁婉珊
Dr. Woven：可持續發展的和諧社區活化計劃
導師—潘鴻彬
環境及室內設計—鄧智達
環境及室內設計—羅穎嵐
產品設計—黃海芹
社會創新設計—黃紫晴
ANSA：未來的工作與生活
導師—溫志光博士
廣告設計—鍾卓豐
傳意設計—蔡悅心
環境及室內設計—黃靖彤
互動媒體—梁世賢
產品設計—周子晉
PURICUB：由本地年青人親手製作可持續發展的STEAM空氣清新機
導師—施奕騰博士
廣告設計—陳思穎
環境及室內設計—葉倬昕
產品設計—蔡穎彤
產品設計—麥浩然
RECOMASK：關於口罩回收的可持續發展教育
導師—Stefan Sonntag
廣告設計—YoungBeen Jung
互動媒體— 郭穎銦
產品設計—Taya Moroz
JAPJAP：家居廚餘自助回收站
導師—蕭競聰
傳意設計—黃迦苗
傳意設計—阮靖喬
環境及室內設計—陳文慧
產品設計—廖成鍇