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Designer / Brand: ChungSheng Chen Project: Inclusive Playground Equipment Tag: Social Date: Monday, 28 September 2026

Sight Difference

A series of inclusive playground equipment that focuses on safe interaction and encourages the elderly to play with their grandchildren in a community inclusive playground. Convention equipment in the playground, either only fit for children or solely for the elders, Sight Difference enhances the interaction and fun between grandparents and grandchildren, increases the elders' exercise opportunities at the same time promoting the sustainable development of today's inclusive communities when playing in the park.

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Designer / Brand: Jackie Lai Project: Shop and Home for Homeless Tag: Social Date: Sunday, 27 September 2026

Doonya

Doonya is a modular shelter unit that combines a home and a small shop for people without housing. Each unit measures 6 metres by 3 metres, giving 18 square metres, and can be extended up to 40 square metres as a family grows. Built with tubular infrastructure technology, one unit can be assembled by four people in four hours using a single allen key. Each unit carries a unique GPS number, which provides an address and an identity. Further features include an alarm, a terrace, a roof garden, a solar panel and rainwater harvesting.

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Designer / Brand: Chloe Coelho Project: Toolkit Tag: Social Date: Saturday, 26 September 2026

Uncomfortable Immersion

Uncomfortable Immersion is a grief support toolkit for bereaved adolescents. The toolkit centres on a guide book that helps young people build personal ritual objects and process loss at their own pace. A memorial pendant is shaped from the signature of a loved one, 3D printed in PLA and cast in sterling silver. A silk scarf is printed with a letter from the deceased in thermochromic ink, which becomes transparent above 27 degrees Celsius, so the words appear through touch. Human-centred design methods guided the work, which aims to offer support long after a funeral.

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Designer / Brand: Haitao Song Project: Poster Design Tag: Social Date: Friday, 25 September 2026

Interdependence

Interdependence is a public service poster created to raise attention to wildlife protection. The poster shows a dinner plate. On the left side lie dead wild animals, a bat and a pangolin. On the right side lies an infected human lung with a coronavirus shape inside. The blood of the animals spreads to form the shape of the lung, and the blood vessels of the lung are drawn as tree branches. The image links the eating of wild animals with infection and states that protecting wild animals protects people. The poster measures 70 by 50 centimetres and is shown outdoors and online.

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Designer / Brand: Yan Yan Project: Social Critique Design Tag: Social Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026

Anonymousociety

Anonymousociety is a social critique design project. In this project. Yan Yan created a non-existent secret organization named Anonymousociety. Anonymousociety wants to create a safe house where people can hide from the spotlights, escape from the attention, and let go of themselves. While creating this project, Yan Yan was using a mockumentary perspective to document the existence of Anonymousociety. This series of design works include a fan-made website, a magazine, a set of instructions and flyers etc.

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Designer / Brand: Du Heli Project: Window Tag: Social Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2026

X-Space

X-Space is a fire escape window designed for residential rooms where the passageway may be blocked during a fire. The design is a redesign of the window frame with a rotational structure holder made of five parts that interact by mechanical principles. Turning the handle 180 degrees anticlockwise triggers the alarm and notifies firefighters. Opening the window then forms a space outside the wall. A fire resisting shutter hidden in the holder axis is pulled out to isolate fire and smoke while people wait for rescue.

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