PolyPlay Web Inspirational Online Design Platform by Rémi Leclerc |
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| DESIGN NAME: PolyPlay Web PRIMARY FUNCTION: Inspirational Online Design Platform INSPIRATION: PolyPlay Web is the digital version of an education unit, consultancy office, and research lab. In 2004 PolyU Design opened the Toy Design Lab to investigate the realities of the toy industry, one of HK's top three export industries in terms of revenue. In 2007 it was renamed PolyPlay Lab as it extended its research scope to explore how play could enhance design education, practice, and research. The lab fosters from within HK a culture of innovation embracing creativity, technology, and communication to support the design community. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: PolyPlay Web is an online inspirational platform promoting innovative experimental approaches to design. It showcases Hong Kong's creative potential, facilitating the Made in Hong Kong to HK-designed paradigm shift in value perception. It is used to inspire students, extol innovative approaches, inform research, commercialize projects, and foster industry collaborations. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Browsing PolyPlay contents: The platform's simple design facilitates easy project browsing. Playwork category drop-down menu leads to playwork projects. Each playwork project may belong to multiple categories. Full website content viewing: Full website content guest viewing requires an access code (i.e. full viewing password), as some of its content needs copyright protection. Guest viewing request process: 1. Go to http://polyplay.hk/ 2. Click GUEST VIEWING on landing page 3. Click please email your request to info@polyplay.hk 4. Fill GUEST VIEWING REQUEST form at http://www.polyplay. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2012 and was completed in June 2014. It was launched at the International Toy Research Association 7th World Congress in Portugal July 24th, 2014. It was presented January 14th, 2015 to the international toy industry community at the 2015 Hong Kong Toys Industry Conference Evolution of Toy Industry at the invitation of Hong Kong Trade & Development Council, the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, and the Toy Manufacturers Association of Hong Kong. The project was Awarded the Japan Institute for Design Promotion 2015 Good Design Award aka G-Mark. |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The PolyPlay Web showcases over 150 design projects conceived for or informed by play. Curation of Playworks resulted in a bottom-up natural emergence of 9 Design Play categories. Full Guest Viewing of contents necessitates an access code. Interested browsers may request a temporary access code by completing an online form available on the website's landing page. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The PolyPlay Web online inspirational design platform showcases over 150 design projects, papers, conference presentations, exhibition accounts, awards, and reviews. TAGS: Design Thinking, Design Education, Design for Play, Creative Design RESEARCH ABSTRACT: PolyPlay investigates the relevance of play to design practice, exploration, education, and research. Contending that design shapes culture, and considering Huizinga's contention that culture is the outcome of play; its research focus aims at revealing the mutually beneficial relationships between play, design, and education. Taking cues from research experiments in design for play, PolyPlay uses play theory and toy design practices to inspire designers and inform better design practices. The PolyPlay Web online design platform showcases experimentation carried out in teaching, research, and consultancy at the confines of all three fields. It helps designers seeking to enrich awareness of the cultural relevance of their practice through the lens of play; and play academics working to expand their perspective on play's cultural agency by bridging their field to design. CHALLENGE: PolyPlay's approach includes user-as-player-cente ADDED DATE: 2016-09-29 05:12:12 TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Project Leader: Rémi Leclerc, Designer: Mo Chung Yan, Webmaster: Rex Kwong Man Him and Content Manager: Catherine Fung Shuk Ting IMAGE CREDITS: Rémi Leclerc, 2016. PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: All rights The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
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NAME: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design PROFILE: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design) has been a leading design education and research hub for Asia since 1964. Academic programmes are offered at higher diploma, bachelor, master, and doctoral levels, in very diverse design expertise fields. At undergraduate level these include Advertising Design, Communication Design, Digital Media, Environment and Interior Design, Interactive Media, Product Design, and Social Design. At postgraduate level these include Advanced Design Practices, Design Strategies, Interaction Design, International Design and Business Management, Urban Environments Design. PolyU Design provides state-of-the-art teaching and learning environments in the Jockey Club Innovation Tower, a landmark building designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid located in the heart of Hong Kong. PolyU Design is ranked third in Asia in the area of art and design by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject. Students engage with industry, community, and institution through commercial and service projects, and win international and local design awards. Under the aegis of a three-pronged research agenda encompassing Social, Making, and Business aspects of design service, PolyU Design faculty engage in research and development projects and rank among the most productive researchers in Asia, with publications and high-impact projects serving the local and international community. |
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Polyplay Web Inspirational Online Design Platform by Rémi Leclerc is Winner in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Category, 2016 - 2017.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Rémi Leclerc. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Rémi Leclerc. |
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