HKDI DESIS Lab Won Two Major Awards at Asia Social Innovation Award 2014
HKDI DESIS Lab Won Two Major Awards at Asia Social Innovation Award 2014
7 Nov 2014
HKDI DESIS Lab for Social Design Research aims to create different social innovation designs for positive social change. One of its recent projects titled Open Diamond Project was initiated to promote long-term social change, using technology which turns ashes into diamonds, combining environmental protection and life education in the hope of creating sustainable and meaningful life for society. Competing with 480 entries from over 20 countries worldwide, this project won the Best Development Potential Award and the Best Multimedia Award at the Asia Social Innovation Award 2014. The Award Presentation Ceremony was held at the Social Enterprise Summit in Hong Kong on 3rd November, 2014.
Open Diamond Project redefines “death” and encourages people to examine its meanings. It aims at encouraging citizens to prepare for their own dying matters through designing their own Diamonds and promoting this advanced technology as a sustainable lifestyle. There are three components in this project, namely Living Diamond, Eternal Diamond and Death Diamond. Living Diamond is a developing tool for people to design their own Diamonds as part of their living wills; Eternal Diamond allows people and his/her family to design the unique diamond and jewellery to extend love and the legacy of their loved ones; Death Diamond provides a series of specially designed Death Diamonds which public can choose the most suitable one for themselves.
The Asia Social Innovation Award has been established since 2008, to promote the culture of social innovation and enrich people’s knowledge on social issues, and to build a platform to encourage the sharing of ideas and experience among Asian cities for the sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region.
