In addition to schools’ participation, PMQ Seed actively expands its programme this year by collaborating with various community centres for the first time. These include Aberdeen Kai-Fong Welfare Association, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Hung Shui Kiu Youth S.P.O.T., The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association and The Hong Kong Playground Association Choi Tak Integrated Service Centre for Children & Youth, enabling children from a wider range of interests to participate in projects and encouraging young friends from different backgrounds to explore the world with an experimental spirit.
“Creative Training Class” is based on design thinking and is conducted in different primary and secondary schools and communities with four teaching teams. The teaching team AaaM Architects, Milk Design and STICKYLINE lead students from Primary Five to Form Two to understand the environmental issues caused by plastics which is closely related to everyday life. Students then attempt to promote their environmental advocacy and plastic reduction proposals through different media.
Participating schools (listed in alphabetical order):
Concordia Lutheran School
Ho Dao College (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen)
Po Leung Kuk Castar Primary School
S.K.H. Lee Shiu Keung Primary School
Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School
Tsing Yi Trade Association Primary School
The teaching team started the course with games, a sharing session and a site visit, which includes a plastics sorting exercise, a sharing on sustainable lifestyle by an upcycling product designer and the creation of plastic monster to visualize the decomposition period and lifespan of plastics. In addition, participants were able to visit nearby supermarket to do shopping, which aimed to find out disposable plastics in our daily lives and reflect the ways of practicing plastic reduction from shopping habits.
The reduction of plastic can start in everyday life. Eventually, participants were required to initiate plans or campaigns for plastic reduction by creating different promotional tools. During the presentation sessions, they invited their families to participate in plastic reduction efforts.
• Milk Design
The founder of Milk Design Limited, Chi-wing Lee, is a product designer. He believes that design is a tool to explore the different facets of life, and that design is inseparable from daily living. In recent years, he has been actively involved in curatorial work - using exhibitions to promote design to the public. Passionate about design education, he is currently a visiting lecturer at the School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is part of various design education programmes at the PMQ and the Hong Kong Design Centre.
• STICKYLINE
Stickyline was founded in 2011 by Mic Leong & Soilworm Lai. Focusing on paper engineering and structure development, the creative duo has been transforming two-dimensional planes into three-dimensional forms through deconstruction and reconstruction. By folding and creasing, they have created art and design in its own form as installation art, sculpture, stage design and window display, etc.
The programme was designed under the model of design thinking,.The teaching team started the course by leading students to implement research through interviewing in community near the schools. After gathering the data and quotes, students experienced the process of discussing and developing different sides of opinions, which strengthened their logical thinking and creative thinking. The process enabled students to generate ideas on improving and reflecting daily habits of using plastics.
Eventually ,Students presented their ideas on data visualization boards and exhibition boards, in order to express their thoughts on how action makes changes regarding the topic of plastics.
AaaM (Architecture as a Medium) Architects believes in architecture’s power as a medium. Through architecture, space installations, words, curating exhibitions and design workshops, they promote architecture and design culture. In addition to design-related projects, AaaM is also experienced in conducting educational and public interactive workshops.
