Saturday, 17 November 2007 | Levent OZLER
PolyU's School of Design Features "Three Masterpieces" Exhibition
at the International Design Research Conference IASDR
 Design was perceived to be a practical, hands-on, intuitive discipline conventionally. As the only institution that provides tertiary education in Design, the HK PolyU School of Design (SD) however has been focusing on scientific research as the foundation of design development.
To coincide with the International Design Research Conference IASDR (International Association of Societies of Design Research), the HK PolyU School of Design (SD) presents "Three Masterpieces" exhibition, a fascinating search of innovation to social responsibility issues and how research will remain the origin of innovative design in the future. Three Master of Design graduates will reveal their inspiration, research process and how design responds to the emerging trends: Janie Poon (Hong Kong) investigates Preservation of heritage, Evan Ma (China) on Health Care and Katarina Ivarsson (Sweden) on Ecological Sustainability.
 
Janie Poon's Palimpsest, "Future of the Past" project examines the ways in which heritage or the past can be preserved in the context of contemporary life, not as a historic relic set aside for wonder, but as an integral and useful part of daily life. The analysis seeks to propose a framework that applies to tradition and modernity with the aim to preserve heritage and acquire modernity simultaneously.
Evan Ma studies the medication delivery problems recently and provides a medication cart ("INNO") that fits in Hong Kong's limited space hospital ward aisles, provides control and ease of access for nursing staff and presents reliable medication delivery to patients.
Katarina Ivarsson's "Green Pollution" uses a critical design perspective to support well-being rather than well-having by encouraging de-materialization of consumption through changing habits so that sustainability is personally felt in daily life.
"Three Masterpieces" exhibition opens to public and particularly welcome who envision design as strategies to solution.
SD has been providing postgraduate design education since the 90s. Every year, we nurture over a hundred design leaders and management elites from taught postgraduate and research-based MPhil and PH.D programmes. Students come from all around the world (North America, Europe, North Asia, Greater China region, South East Asia, etc) and their education and working experience are empowered with Hong Kong's international vision and cross disciplinary design knowledge offered at SD. The SD plays an important role in establishing Hong Kong's position of Asia's design hub.
For those who are interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in design, please join our Information Seminar on Master of Design scheme on 15th Dec (Sat). For enquiry, please contact the School at 3400 3440.
Exhibition Dates: 11-30 Nov 07
Exhibition Venue: SD Gallery, School of Design,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Opening Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9am - 7pm ; Sat. 9am - 2pm
Sun. & Public Holiday Closed
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