The Master of Arts in Design has been hosting the "International Design Workshop" in Hong Kong since the year 2014. Over the turn of two weeks, students work in an interdisciplinary team with local experts in order to explore a specific topic and develop an independent project. The workshop aims to use the researched knowledge to come up with innovative approaches applicable to the students’ own design practice and creative perspectives. This process enables students to get to know new methods and environments and experience the internationality of design.
This year the workshop focused on the topic "Food". In three groups, students explored three overlapping aspects of the topic: 1. food as a common good; separated from capital and economic interests and socially experienced in an immediate neighborhood. 2. Food in terms of circular economy, which deals with production, consumption and waste. 3. Packaging and tools as a specific expression of food consumption from a material, ecological and cultural understanding.
The aim of all three thematic fields was to sharpen awareness from a design perspective of food as an existential resource. To stimulate sensitivity beyond one’s own food consumption and to highlight the social and community quality of food production and consumption.