Hello，everyone！We are Christian and hyacinth, two from PoylU Design Practice, and I believe we are kind, interesting and creative. We have the background of industrial design and software engineering & interaction design respectively. Our group is still waiting for two members to join us. It is better for you to be a student from KISD, as required.Welcome to comment below this message to let us know you. Maybe you can also add me as Wechat friend: jingzeyu1028.Looking forward to your participation！

Oh!  One more thing.

Please call me ‘Dumpy’ (my ‘avatar’) in this foods exploration journey……..

If possible, I’ll encourage you all to create a food-related ‘avatar’ for your team as well.  Talk soon!

Hello All! 

I think I should introduce myself briefly here as well.  My name is Benny Ding LEONG, in Chinese 梁町. Together with Philipp and Stefan, I’m going to accompanying you through this unpredictable yet exciting journey of “exploring urban food cultures for circularity” !  

As about me, I was born in Macau and grew up in Hong Kong (HK) since I’ve brought to HK by my parents just 2 years of age.  So, I am a native Chinese. 

In term of design, I don’t want to talk too much here. You can review my background and get to know me better here: https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/en/meet-our-staff/bennyleong

But in term of foods, I have to tell you that I am a very picky guy.   I think there are only a few restaurants which can satisfy my tummy (even the one with michelin stars).  If you had watched a movie named “Ratatouille” (五星級大鼠), I think I’m much alike the food critic Anton Ego. My tummy (or stomach) is my boss if it come to foods.  That’s why my wife had really a tough time at the beginning of our marriage, ha ha 🙂     But now, I can claim, she is one of the most amazing chefs of Canton cuisine(粵菜) and Chaozhou cuisine (潮州菜) cursines in the world!  Really!   Dishes cooked by her with so much dedication, affection and love!   Everyday become wonderful when I think of the delicious foods prepared for her.   If you have the opportunity to come to Hong Kong, you will be welcome to meet my wife.   Well, whether you would have the luck to try her cooking.  It all depends lol………… Ha Ha !! 

Hi, I’m Lynn from PolyU HK. I’m currently studying Design Practices in postgraduate, and have a background in visual communication design as an undergraduate. Hope it will be helpful in future projects. In my ordinary life, I usually like to make traditional Chinese stir-fry, also called home cooking. But in fact, I am still very interested in baking, because I personally like sweets haha. So glad to have such an opportunity to learn with others from KISD. I am looking forward to meeting you guys on the course!

I am Swasti, studying my final year of product design at Hong Kong PolyU. I am born and raised in India and have moved a considerable bit around South east Asia. I recently completed a year long exchange at Konstfack University, Sweden.

Coming from a big Indian family, food was always the focal and connecting point for so many gatherings and social interactions with family and friends. When stuck in our tiny studio apartments during the pandemic in Sweden, food again became the crucial thing that brought me closer to my other exchange friends. It was through our dinners and lunches where we cooked and ate together that we all got through and also learnt so much more about our different cultures. Here is a picture from one of our makeshift dinner settings 🙂

I am quite fascinated by how food is the glue for so many of our human interactions and would be interested to explore what will our future meals look like and the way we grow and cook in the years to come; especially with rising urbanisation, smaller homes and more and more people living alone 🙁 

My areas of interest include sustainability and disruptive technologies. In the past, I have worked on topics of e waste in electronic home appliances, you can read more about my project here https://swasti-sethi.com/Marti .I am currently also researching about my final project on AI and Humans, the future of our relations with each other and maybe nature (?) Hopefully I can also apply some learnings from that into this collaborative project. 

Look forward to hearing from you all and you can find me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/swastisethi/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/swasti.sethi/

See you soon! 

Swasti

HELLO! I’m Christian from PolyU HK! I’m now study in Design Practice in postgraduate, and have a background of industrial design/product design as undergraduate. I’m now in Xiamen, mainland of China, though I birth in the northern China. I like the product design industry very much, and I have working experience in this field. I’m a fiood fan, hoping to find out more about the mysteries of urban food.  So glad to have such an opportunity to learning with you students from KISD and hope to be friends with you and share creativity and inspiration with you all!

Hi, everyone, nice to meet you all in here. My English name is Hyacinth, from China, and I’m studying at PolyU Hong Kong, learn in Design Practice class in postgraduate. I would like to use three words to motivate myself: Exploration, love, and perseverance, which means to explore what you love and stick to it.  ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ 

Like to explore and discover problems, like to learn more about culture, I hope to meet you here and have a different experience. Looking forward to the beginning of our course.(★＞U＜★)