After participating in the last Best Scene in Town @ PICNIC '11 challenge and winning the runner-up price, the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) decided to organize their own version of the challenge for a selected group of students. The theme for this challenge was two-fold: design games for the HKDI campus and for the Detour program of the Business of Design Week (BoDW) that is taking place 1, 2 and 3 December '11.
The reason for choosing the HKDI campus is to create mobile interactive tours for different types of visitors that come to the campus: new students at orientation days, international visitors and offcourse the students themselves.
The Detour program, the satellite program for the BoDW, was chosen because of its explicit requirements for exploring city locations in Hong Kong as the Detour locations are scattered throughout the city. Furthermore, with many international visitors coming to the BoDW, the student work can directly be made available to the target group they designed it for. The students will even have the opportunity to present and launch their work at the Inno Design Tech Expo of the BoDW on December 1st.
Organizing these sessions fits very well with the strategy of HKDI as they are structurally investing into innovation programs on Mobile Learning and app development. A topic that HKDI is taking a leading position in, in the Hong Kong academic scene.
For more results please visit the HKDI page at the "Best Scene in Town" website.