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9floor Co-living
9Floor Co-Living, a co-living project/start up, is running the biggest co-living apartment in Taipei; 2 public house projects with Xinbei City government. To solve our own problem of living in Taipei, my friends and I created a co-living community in this modern city. By community design and tech-management, we remodel and make the apartments with […]
ASPIRE55 PTE LTD
ASPIRE55 – Asia’s first virtual retirement village, is a wellbeing community that offers a combination of social, health and care services but enables members to continue living in their existing homes. We create family style mini clubhouses for our 50+ community, with a portfolio of over 100 active ageing programmes and activities, bringing like-minded people […]
Chengdu Longlive Pension Industry Development Co, ltd
This exhibition presents LangLive’s innovative products and smart solutions in tackling Double Ageing, including the Longlive fall protection black-technology device “ANHUSHI® Smart Hip Protector”, “Longlive elderly-centric home modification model room”, and “Longlive elderly-centric home modification system”.
Co-designing Iron Trolley for Cardboards Recycling
Many grassroots elders in Hong Kong are engaged in waste picking for meagre income in order to survive in the community. They make significant contributions to waste recycling, but they are generally neglected by society. Iron trolley for cardboards recycling is the “working buddies” of elderly waste pickers. “Co-designing an Iron Trolley for Cardboards Recycling” […]
Descamps.Technology Limited
Descamps.Technology Limited is a Hong Kong-based artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) company, specializing in research, design, development, production and implementation of proprietary smart sensors and ambient intelligence solutions to improve daily lives at home and in business environments. The elderly face difficulties in daily life, especially those living on their own. With sharp growth in aging population, […]
Golden Age Foundation
Established in 2015, Golden Age Foundation (GAF) was launched as a non-profit organisation (Charity Registration Number: 91/ 14446) by our founder and chair Ms Rebecca Yung and a group of social entrepreneurs. Our mission at GAF supports the Golden Age community of individuals aged 45 and above to lead fulfilling, healthy and quality lifestyles. We […]
HandyRehab
We are dedicated to tackling the problem of healthcare accessibility by developing affordable robotic devices for rehabilitation. For years, robotic rehabilitation devices are designed for hospital settings due to their large physical size, and extremely high price. Thus, it is not feasible for community or home use as well as not affordable for the local […]
Hong Kong Green Building Council
The Hong Kong Green Building Council Limited (HKGBC) is a non-profit, member led organisation established in 2009 with the vision to help save the planet and improve the wellbeing of the people of Hong Kong by transforming the city into a greener built environment. HKGBC is a key driver in setting the standard for local […]
Hong Kong Housing Society
Founded in 1948, Hong Kong Housing Society is the first non-government housing organisation in Hong Kong. For over 70 years, the Housing Society has been providing affordable housing and related services to meet the needs of the community with a social mission. As Hong Kong’s “housing laboratory”, the Housing Society started the planning of elderly […]
Intergenerational Community in a Vertical City
A high-density compact city may not necessarily promote beneficiary community interaction. Hong Kong is in the trend of “Double Ageing” where population and building stock are ageing simultaneously at a rapid speed. The planning and design of community facilities based on population cohort demarcation is no longer suitable. Could Hong Kong as a vertical city […]
Intergenerational Play Space Design Competition | HKHS Prosperous Garden
Play is for everybody. A public space that enables intergenerational play is an effective way for users of all ages to increase confidence, improve physical and mental wellbeing, as well as strengthen community cohesion and sense of belonging. These innovative “Intergenerational Play Space” design proposals are the winning proposals developed by professional and university teams […]
NeuroGym (Supported by Good Seed)
Medmind Technology Limited is dedicated to developing innovative products for healthy ageing and health technology. We revolutionise the assessment and training by incorporating academic research and games through interactive experience, big data and AI. Providing individuals with interesting and sustainable training for prevention, monitoring and intervention of neurodegenerative and mental diseases. Our vision is to […]
People’s Architecture Office
Like Hong Kong, many urban areas in the mainland face the problem of ageing buildings. Examples are Beijing’s historic districts, where old courtyard houses need to be preserved, and Shenzhen’s urban villages, where houses are dilapidated. To tackle the problem of ageing buildings, People’s Architecture Office, the first B Corp certified architectural design agency in […]
Re-Imagine Elderly Centres
“Baby boomers” born after the Second World War have now become the new generation of elderly. Compared with their parents, they are generally healthier, with better education level and financial ability, and more importantly, have much longer lifespans. Elderly centres in Hong Kong perform a crucial role in promoting Active Ageing. Cooperating with different stakeholders […]
Relocatable Housing by Modular Integrated Construction (MiC)
The rising demand of Transitional Social Housing has become the “third sector housing” in Hong Kong, strategically situated in the gap between the dominant public rental housing and private/ownership-based residences (nearly half-half). Due to repetitive and relocatable requirements, modular integrated construction (MiC) is used predominately to deliver housing in a speedy and systematic manner. To […]
Smart City Consortium
Smart City Consortium (SCC) comprises a group of professionals from different corporations and organizations with an aim to provide opinions and suggestions to the Government for formulating related policies and standards in the development of Hong Kong as a world-class smart city. We encourage worldwide collaboration with different stakeholders to create the right ecosystem, which […]
SOINNO Design Education
Since 2018, JCDISI has launched the SOINNO Design Education programme to introduce Social Innovation and Design Thinking into the secondary education curriculum. In the programme, students can contemplate the social issues and learn the knowledge that matters to them. Besides student workshops, we are also committed to provide professional training for teachers and pre-service teachers. […]
Studio-L
Studio-L is a community design organisation based in Japan. Our aim is to empower people from local communities to think, talk and realise their future through design. Since 2005 Studio-L has been involved with several projects which require civic participation and collaboration on park management, masterplan planning, revitalisation of the high streets, management of public […]
The Age-Friendly Community Kitchen
Since January 2019, JCDISI collaborated with 25 final-year students from PolyU BA(Hons) in Social Design to carry out a study with a view to improving the services of the “Chan Un Chan Third Age Volunteers Centre cum Community Kitchen of TWGHs”. After understanding the needs of the Community Kitchen, the students came up with six […]
Transitional Social Housing
Transitional Social Housing (TSH) is an innovative housing type that broke the traditional dichotomy of private and public housing. The architectural design process of TSH is naturally different from typical housing design. JCDISI’s first three SoInno Action Projects encourage stakeholders from different sectors and disciplines to re-imagine the utilisation of idle land resources as TSH. […]
Urban Renewal Authority
The URA was established in May 2001 under the Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance as the statutory body to undertake, encourage, promote and facilitate urban renewal of Hong Kong. The URA tackles the problem of urban decay by implementing the 5Rs, known as Redevelopment, Rehabilitation, pReservation, Revitalisation and Retrofitting, for creating a sustainable and quality living […]
