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Camping on AVA-campus
The first practical exercise of the new academic year: after the MVA Welcome Dinner the second year XD-students stayed overnight on Kai Tak-campus and staged various spaces with light and sound. What...
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MVA Study Trip to Guangzhou
On the weekend of 10/11 November 2012, the Experience Design-concentration of AVA’s MVA-programme – for the first time including students of Year 1 and Year 2! – hit the road and went off to Shenzhen...
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MVA Year 1 visits Disneyland
Thanks to the generous support of Disneyland HK also the Year 1-students of this year could go on a study trip to the Happiest Place on Earth today. And while there were assignments, research...
View ArticleDesigning Experience: Results from Call for Abstracts out
With great pleasure we announce that the peer-reviewing process for our research project ‘Designing Experience’ has been completed. Overall we received in total 31 proposals from 14 countries all over...
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Study Trip to Evergreen Resort
Evergreen Resort is an “eco park” located in urban Shenzhen, close to the Nansha port. Generally a kind of unlikely venture in a place like Shenzhen it is of course worth a closer look and some...
View ArticleMVA Programme Briefing for Admission 2013
On Saturday, 2 March, 14 h AVA offers a briefing on our MVA programme, including the MVA (Experience Design). All that are interested in a two-year part time programme for professional and/or creative...
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Hong Kong Economic Journal Report about ‘Taste Buddhism’
This weekend the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported about XD’s student Agnes Lee’s project ‘Taste Buddhism’ that has been accepted as a contribution to the Setouchi Triennale in Japan, to be opened in...
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New MVA (Experience Design) opens in Shenzhen
This afternoon AVA soft-opened its first ever programme in mainland China, the MVA (Experience Design), in Shenzhen. Essentially an exact replica of its sister programme in Hong Kong it will be...
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Tram Experience at Detour 2013
7 graduates of the MVA (Experience Design) were invited together with Mr. Kingsley Ng, our XD-lecturer, to develop an experience for a moving double-storey tram. They proposed to turn the interior of...
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MVA Introduction at OCT Loft
On Saturday, 24 May 2014, Mr. Kingsley Ng and Mr. Peter Benz introduced the MVA (Experience Design) to a crowd of more than 80 people at the OCT Loft in Shenzhen, China. We we’re accompanied by our...
View ArticlePapers invited for presentation
The following proposed papers were invited for presentation at the conference was based on the outcomes of a double-blind peer-review, and subsequently confirmed by the conference’s Programme Committee...
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XD & Associates to wow you with on-the-spot ice-cream
The ice-cream has a smooth texture as liquid nitrogen cools down milk atoms almost instantly. Angress Li (left) and Max Kong will have special flavours created for the XD Conference A typical...
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Aesthetics in Experience Design
Koskinen: there’s a lively debate about the role of aesthetics in design research. What would a former sociologist bring to the table of experience design? With a PhD in Sociology, Dr. Ilpo Koskinen...
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Designing experiences with wearables
Gomez: A better understanding of the impacts of future trends helps researchers, designers, and tech experts develop devices that ultimately raises patients’ wellbeing How would wearables and...
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The experiment of marrying two theories
Benz tries to marry Eisenstein’s attraction theory with Luhmann’s system theory for ground-breaking insights into the nature of experience. Though Peter Benz quit theatre and film studies in...
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Tyler: Design is about putting people first
Dr. Nick Tyler What’s your focus when designing a system, an item or a structure? According to Dr. Nick Tyler, Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering Department, University College London, his...
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Public spaces in HK: Beyond commercial gains
Marisa Yiu What could transform the commerce-dominated public spaces in Hong Kong? According to Marisa Yiu—an architect, a curator, and an educator, she tries to build a feedback mechanism that can...
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Artist, architect re-animate history with Open Cinema
You might have gone to an outdoor cinema, but what about ‘getting immersed’ inside a structure from waist up and having your feet grounded in open space while watching movies? That was the temporary...
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Cornelia Erdmann invites you to her chocolate adventure
What is chocolate to you? Something you nibble on between meals? A comfort food? It’s a culinary adventure to Cornelia Erdmann of laiyanProjects, a creative platform that fuses art and design and...
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Wen Yau: Occupy Movement expands imagination, experience of city space
Dubbed ‘the city of protest’, Hong Kong has seen various demonstrations that effectively engaged a growing number of people and redefine their experiences of using public spaces. According to Wen Yau...
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