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J.C.DISI e-Newsletter | 通訊
July 2024
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PolyU Jockey Club "Operation SoInno"
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“One From Hundred Thousand” Social Innovation Symposium｜Season 18: Community Making in the Nothern Metropolis
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The "Northern Metropolis Action Agenda 2023" reveals that the Northern Metropolis (NM) will become a Development Pole, driving the strategic growth of Hong Kong for the next 20 years. The exponential increase in the number of people living and working in NM will create new social needs and community patterns. The concluding symposium of PolyU Jockey Club "Operation SoInno" will explore how the concepts of "Urban-rural Integration", "15-minute City" and "Social Service Integration" will help optimise and proactively respond to the diverse needs of a large number of newly developed communities and support the co-existence and integration of existing and new communities in NM. This sets forth a direction of community making to create sustainable inclusive communities and a holistic and vibrant NM.
Keynote Speakers:
- Ms Bernadette LINN Hon-ho, JP, Secretary for Development, Development Bureau, HKSAR Government
- Prof. LING Kar-kan, SBS, Director, Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, PolyU
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TeachLab: Students from Good Hope School Visiting PolyU
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The TeachLab Programme at Good Hope School has entered its concluding phase. On 24 June 2024, 240 Form 1 students visited the PolyU campus, including the School of Design, Industrial Centre, and the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction.
Through a series of interactions and experiences, the students explored applications of innovation and scientific research across various interdisciplinary fields. The programme also aroused students' interest in STEAM areas, inspired and empowered them to envision their future academic and career paths.
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Prototype of Cleaner’s Trolley Assembled
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Following the Co-creation Workshop held in February 2024, social designer Mr. Chan Ka Hing has developed two prototypes of cleaner's trolley based on the actual needs of the cleaners. After months of design and assembly, two trolleys with different lengths and functions have been produced.
The trolleys feature special brakes and additional storage for trash bins and tools. The trolleys have undergone lab test on the feature functions, and we are now conducting street trials to gather user feedback, with the goals of reducing the workload, enhancing safety awareness, and improving the work conditions for cleaners.
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Season 15: Shaping Dementia Care Culture – Training Course for Estate Management Personnel
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To build a Dementia-caring community, J.C.DISI collaborated with the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Property Managers to launch a trial training programme for estate management personnel in April and May 2024. The 9-course training programme was supported by academia from the PolyU School of Nursing, Department of Applied Social Sciences and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, consisted of three categories of courses with different foci, namely Basic Understanding on Dementia, Professional Practices of Estate Management on Dementia Care, and Estate Management Skills to Build Dementia-friendly Community.
The programme received an overwhelmingly positive response, with the number of applicants exceeding the quota by three times. Eventually, 54 trainees coming from 34 estate management companies and 37 property estates attended the training.
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Cooperation with Caritas Community Centre – Tusen Wan to Raise the Consciousness of “Double Ageing” with Community Members
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How might we make a start to futureproof our communities to facilitate ageing in place? We are collaborating with Caritas Community Centre – Tsuen Wan and PolyU School of Nursing as our strategic partners to give local stakeholders a voice in addressing the city’s “Double Ageing” challenge. J.C.DISI is refining our “Double Smart Assessment Indicators for Elderly-Friendly Community 2.0" and organising a “Train-the Trainer Workshop” and “Urban Hiking Activity” with Caritas to empower local stakeholders to reassess their community and identify key areas that would need to be upgraded to support ageing in place. We are also collaborating and co-organising events with various NGOs and partners to promote participatory planning on forthcoming occasions. Email disi.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk to join us!
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PolyU Jockey Club "Operation SoInno"
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Check Out the Latest Social Innovation Cases and Tools at SOINNO Hub
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Explore the latest social innocation case and practical tools on the SOINNO Hub! This collection showcases social innovation stories from Hong Kong and Mainland China, covering popular topics like green living and recycling culture, with highlights on "GreenPrice" and "The Loops". It also includes active aging initiatives such as the “Rural Covenant,” which raises awareness about aging-in-place renovations. The “Community Tour” project focuses on building social capital through community-based experiential learning activities.
More design thinking tools are added to the collection to inspire your creativity sessions, for example, using cards to make Q&A sessions more engaging.
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Event Review｜Season 17: Making a Community-based Hong Kong: Experience and Experiment of the Community Making in Transitional Housing Projects
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The event review and replay for the Season 17 "One From Hundred Thousand" Social Innovation Symposium is available! We were honored to have the Under Secretary for Housing, Mr Victor TAI Sheung-shing, JP, present at the event. Read about the Housing Bureau’s actions towards the transformation of transitional housing and the elements of community making. Revisit discussions that brought together cross-sectoral stakeholders who have contributed to this community-making experiment to learn more about their joys and challenges in the process. Further discussions include decision-makers’ conscious and proactive efforts to create liveable communities in Hong Kong.
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Book Launch for “Seed Experiment 3.0”
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With the support of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund), the Good Seed, a social innovation training and funding programme, has incubated over a hundred projects to help people in need. As this remarkable programme approaches its conclusion, we have compiled the stories from 36 awarded projects into this book “Seed Experiment 3.0”, in which these social innovators shared their entrepreneurial experiences in the areas of youth development, care for women, active aging, disability inclusion, mental health, daily home life, and environmental protection. The new book is now available online.
On 20 July 2024, a book launch event was held to celebrate the release of our new book. It featured insightful sharing sessions led by the team leaders of several inspiring projects, including "Clinic Without Walls", "Go Train Ukulele", "Time To Gold", "BlockGuides", "OneBookHalf Gender Safe Space" and "define CLEAN". The team leaders shared their experiences, highlighting both the triumphs and challenges they encountered throughout their entrepreneurial journeys.
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“Furniture For Our Future” Project — Best Academic Improvement Award Ceremony
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With the generous support of Hongkong Land HOME FUND, J.C.DISI launched the “Furniture for Our Future” Project to improve the health and well-being, study environment and upward social mobility of children living in subdivided units or other forms of inadequate housing. This cross-sectoral collaboration has designed tailor-made furniture sets that are ergonomic and adjustable in order to fit different spatial setups. To date, the project has provided these furniture sets to over 2,400 children.
To encourage the use of the furniture and recognise academic improvement of the beneficiary children, the team established the "Best Academic Improvement Award". 25 students with the greatest improvement in academic performance were selected to each receive a HK$2,000 book vouchers, and an award ceremony was held at PolyU on 6 July 2024.
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J.C.DISI's Research Outcomes Featuring in the Hong Kong Report 2024
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Two research projects conducted by J.C.DISI have been featured in the Hong Kong Report on the State of Sustainable Built Environment 2024, published by the Construction Industry Council and Hong Kong Green Building Council.
- "Study on Effective Transitional Housing Delivery in Hong Kong", 169-170.
- "Technical Report on The Deconstruction, Relocation and Reinstallation of MiC Modules at Nam Cheong 220 Transitional Housing Project", 171-172.
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BritCham Impact Hackathon 2024 - Sustainable Living for Tomorrow's Generations: Unlocking the Potential at Northern Metropolis
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J.C.DISI was privileged to be invited as one of the subject matter experts in innovation, planning, sustainability and policy making to share our vision for community making in the Northern Metropolis with members of the British Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong (BritCham) at their Impact Hackathon on 5 June 2024. Following the keynote speech by Ms Doris Ho, Permeant Secretary for Development (Planning and Lands) on the Northern Metropolis Action Agenda, the Panel highlighted the measures of success in building sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and ensuring sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12), and the key policy enhancements required to make a more sustainable and vibrant Northern Metropolis to inspire young professionals on how to develop solutions that could make a lasting impact on Hong Kong.
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