About the Workshop

Workshop on Design for Sustainability (D4S): Design Green Partnership Agreement between Kyoto and Hong Kong builds on the previous success of the KU-HKBU Joint Workshop on Field Informatics held on March 5-7, 2012 at Hong Kong Baptist University, the HKBU-KU Inter-University Symposium on Field Based Design held on March 29-30, 2013 at Kyoto University and the KU-HKBU 2014 Joint Workshop on Design for Sustainability (D4S): Mobility and Healthcare held on June 12-15, 2014 at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Aspects to focus on

Design green partnership agreement between Kyoto and Hong Kong
  • Ex. Low-carbon society, waste management, etc.
  • Discover cultural differences
  • Forcibly ideate green solutions using the cultural differences
  • Extend the ideas by combining participants’ research topics

This year's joint post-graduate workshop contains two sub-workshops:

  • Workshop 1: Intercultural Collaboration
  • Workshop 2: Interdisciplinary Collaboration