Because the Hong Kong SAR Authorities’s strategic associate in selling design and design pondering to strengthen Hong Kong’s place as a world design hub, HKDC is most inspired by the next 4 factors which align with our strategic instructions:
(i) Nurturing a diversified expertise pool and promotion of STEAM training – HKDC believes design and design pondering ought to be built-in into major and secondary training to nurture creativity amongst our youths, who’re the inspiration of Hong Kong’s future competitiveness. This requires the introduction of design-dedicated topics beginning on the major stage, and selling design training in tandem with the STEM curriculum. Thus, the federal government’s proposal to advertise STEAM training is most encouraging. As well as, the event of design and design industries may also enhance youth upward social mobility by offering extra profession prospects to younger folks.
(ii) Steady improve of cultural infrastructure – With HKDC quickly to be relocated to Sham Shui Po as a brand new inventive landmark in 2024, HKDC believes Sham Shui Po could possibly be developed right into a Design and Inventive District, utilizing HKDC as a inventive anchor to facilitate cultural exchanges and the event of the cultural industries. Design and inventive districts are more and more an integral a part of main cities resembling South Korea, Thailand, the UK, Finland and the Netherlands, and will reinforce the town’s position as an East-meets-West centre for worldwide cultural trade.
(iii) Enriching arts, cultural and inventive content material – It was proposed {that a} Mega Arts and Cultural Occasions Fund be set as much as promote the staging of extra worldwide cultural occasions in Hong Kong. Whereas worldwide cultural occasions and exchanges are essential, Hong Kong’s long-term competitiveness is extra ensured by cultivating its personal inventive district and expertise. HKDC proposes that this fund be used to help related actions within the Sham Shui Po Design and Inventive District and appeal to youth participation, in order that it will probably higher capitalize on alternatives within the quickest rising sector (i.e. inventive industries) of the worldwide economic system.
(iv) Selling platforms for arts and cultural industries – Enterprise of Design Week (BODW), HKDC’s annual flagship occasion since 2002, was talked about among the many globally acclaimed platforms for fostering the event of arts, cultural and inventive industries. Along with strengthening copyright buying and selling actions to foster the expansion of those industries, HKDC advocates the drawing up of a complete blueprint for fostering the event of the Design Trade and Economic system in Hong Kong. A design economic system may also deliver important cultural values to Hong Kong, and turn into a principal driver of financial and environmental values to the broader economic system and neighborhood.
Prof. Eric Yim, Chairman of HKDC mentioned, ‘We imagine design and design pondering can play an important position in leveraging the inventive and cultural industries to strengthen our metropolis’s total competitiveness, and create extra worth for various sectors of the economic system. We are going to proceed to work intently with companions such because the Hong Kong Commerce Growth Council, Model Hong Kong, InvestHK and West Kowloon Cultural District to strengthen the inventive industries and foster the continual development of the design economic system.’
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About Hong Kong Design Centre
A non-governmental organisation registered in 2001 and established in 2002, Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is a strategic associate of the HKSAR Authorities in establishing Hong Kong as a world centre of design excellence in Asia. Our public mission is to advertise wider and strategic use of design and design pondering to create enterprise worth and enhance societal well-being.
The yr 2022 marks our twentieth Anniversary, the place we are going to have fun with a sequence of actions beneath the theme ‘Design for Sustainable Group’. Be taught extra about us at 
www.hkdesigncentre.org.
