Heritage Spark
Heritage Spark Design Inspiring Toolkit by Liang Hou is a winner of the 2025 Iron A' Design Award in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design.
Heritage Spark is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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Heritage Spark is a design toolkit that integrates Intangible Cultural Heritage ICH into contemporary creativity. It includes ICH cards for quick understanding, role cards for diverse perspectives, and technology cards to inspire innovation. Two thought canvases support collaborative ideation. Designed for users with no prior ICH knowledge, it fosters empathy and generates solutions for ICH preservation. By bridging tradition and modern technology, this toolkit empowers designers, educators, and cultural practitioners to engage with heritage in transformative ways.
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Heritage Spark by Liang Hou
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Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Heritage Spark Design Inspiring Toolkit
Heritage Spark is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Heritage Spark is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Heritage Spark is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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Liang Hou
Hou Liang is a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in industrial design at Zhejiang University. He loves design and education. His research focuses on design thinking and design tools. He believes that design may not be able to change the world, but it can warm the world.
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Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University is an elite C9 League university located in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is organized into 37 colleges, schools, and departments offering more than 140 undergraduate and 300 graduate programs. The University has been deeply dedicated to nurturing high-caliber innovators and future leaders for an increasingly interconnected world; to encouraging interdisciplinary and creative research that addresses challenges the world faces today; and to translating knowledge and creativity to benefit wider communities. As a student team from Zhejiang university, this team also firmly wish they can change the world through their own effort.
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