HKDI inspire* 2023 : Towards A Sustainable Design
About this event
Design is an important driver of innovation, creation, production, consumption and transformation towards a sustainable world. Organised by Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), a series of hybrid master lectures under the theme “HKDI inspire* 2023 : Towards A Sustainable Design” will be held from 3 to 5 May 2023, focusing on sustainability and its relation to design along with sustainable aspects of design-related methods, practices, and theories. This Master Lecture Series will offer you a better understanding of the future options of design towards a sustainable culture, environment, economy and society. Concurrently, Waste Age: What Can Design Do? Exhibition is in place to present the environmental crisis caused by waste and design’s role in the problem.
3 May 2023, Wednesday | Towards sustainable and circular design
Prof Michael Krohn
Professor of Design and Co-Head of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
14:30 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
This Master Lecture draws a thematic line from design as a creative and artistic discipline, towards a sustainable economy, society, and environment. It asks, how can creativity be used as a source for a more sustainable design culture and -production and acknowledges the often questionable role of design as a driver of consumption and producer of short-lived trends with valuable waste as result. It discusses how can design and the design disciplines be redefined, regarding the necessities of a common future on this planet. It looks back to the roots of sustainability in design in general, before turning to current and future approaches: circularity as a design strategy, covering reuse, reduce, repair, recycle.
3 May 2023, Wednesday | Yes Minister! Yes Designers! Let’s Design for A Circular Economy!
Opening Ceremony
16:00 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
Master Lecture
Wong Kam-sing
Former Secretary for the Environment, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
16:15 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
Sharing by Sustainability Experts from Hong Kong
16:45 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
Eddy Yu (creation of “6”)
Co-founder of CoDesign Ltd
Chen Dah Ren, George
Co-founder and CEO of Ecoinno (H.K.) Limited
Panel Discussion chaired by Wong Kam-sing between HK and Swiss Sustainability Experts
17:15 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
Panel Members from Switzerland:
Professor Michael Krohn
Professor of Design and Co-Head of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Karin Zindel
Designer and Co-Head of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Isabela Gygax
Artistic-scientific Associate of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
4 May 2023, Thursday | A circular and sustainable fashion world
Isabela Gygax
Artistic-scientific Associate of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
10:00 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
This Master Lecture examines a variety of alternative paradigms to the current un-sustainable fashion status quo. This includes the concept of Earth-logic, circularity, usership instead of consumption and understanding green washing. We will discuss the question if we can afford to throw away garments and analyse the notion of trash-mentality as well as future material aspirations. By keeping in mind that the most sustainable garment is the one already in our wardrobe, we investigate the need to create systems that sustain creative endeavours for as many generations as possible.
4 May 2023, Thursday | The Art of Possible Futures
Karin Zindel
Designer and Co-Head of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
14:30 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
In a time of increasing crises, from economic to climate, from demographic to pandemic and war with global consequences, these events are changing the way we perceive and experience the world today. The urgency and the quest for a more sustainable development of our society and environment have now become even more evident. Through the power of imagination, storytelling and speculation, artists and designers are crossing boundaries, collaborating with other disciplines, developing collective visions and imagining possible futures and new ways of living. Through systemic thinking, transdisciplinary and transformative skills, some exemplary projects will be presented and discussed.
5 May 2023, Friday| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair; Circular Economy and the doughnut model
Prof Michael Krohn
Professor of Design and Co-Head of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
10:00 HKT (UTC/GMT+8)
This master lecture sheds light on the consumer behaviour as we know it since industrialisation took command. We ask, what can design contribute to avoid “throw away” culture as it not only needs many resources, damage environment - it also kills jobs and cultures of repair. We have a look at much more social and environmental friendly circular economies where “reduce, reuse, recycle, repair* are the key values. From that point, we look at design and ask, what can design do, to consider these aspects already in the creative process and the follow up economic models. We also have a look at the “Doughnut Model” as a practical orientation model for industry, society and creative economies.
Registration Link: https://hkdiinspire2023.eventbrite.hk/
