Don Norman Design Award (DNDA)

Wernli, Markus (Recipient) & Chan, Kam Fai (Recipient)

School of Design

Prize: Prize (research)

Description

Promising Award in Humanity-Centered Design (Top 5). Don Norman Design Award (DNDA) champions Humanity-Centered Design (HCD+) globally, emphasizing the rights and well-being of humanity, encompassing diverse cultures, the environment, and all living beings. DNDA recognizes early-career practitioners of projects and educational organizations worldwide who take a humanity-centered and sustainable approach to addressing challenges at the community level. DNDA was inspired by the work of Don Norman, design pioneer, educator, and champion of Humanity-Centered Design.

Awarded date	5 Nov 2024
Degree of recognition	International
Granting Organisations	Don Norman Design award (DNDA), San Diego, California

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This industry-community alliance between a local farm, hotel, welfare center, eco-hospitality foundation, and retailer is initiated by the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Soil Trust experimented with eco-social agricultural formats to engage diverse, intergenerational populations in land care practices. To sustain its regenerative farm operation, Soil Trust developed the Growers Without Borders (泥玩無國界) service learning program. Here, ethnic minority mothers, undergraduate design students, and locavore families committed to weekly farm work in return for access to harvest, upskilling, and companionship. This eco-social format allowed the implementation of soil-bound nutrient cycling of kitchen scraps from a downtown hotel that sponsored the operation. Through this intersectoral action research, hotel staff, agriculturists, volunteers, and design students invested their time and resources toward the unifying purpose of promoting local soil health, fertilizer self-sufficiency, and quality food access to the underprivileged, thereby enacting concrete forms of urban/rural co-development.