{"id":15541,"date":"2021-06-15T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/15\/hong-kong-design-centre-names-new-executive-director\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:30:00","slug":"hong-kong-design-centre-names-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/15\/hong-kong-design-centre-names-new-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Design Centre Names New Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 15 June 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkdesigncentre.org\/\">Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC)<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\nannounced today the appointment of Dr Joseph Wong as its new Executive&#13;<br \/>\nDirector, succeeding Dr Edmund Lee with effect from 1 July 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/156542\/Wong-Joseph-2-.jpg#image-156542\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Dr&#13;<br \/>\nJoseph Wong, new Executive Director of Hong Kong Design Centre effective from 1&#13;<br \/>\nJuly 2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Dr&#13;<br \/>\nJoseph Wong is a designer, academic and educator, bringing with him over 20&#13;<br \/>\nyears of experience in design education to HKDC. He has most recently served as&#13;<br \/>\nthe Vice Principal of Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and Deputy Academic&#13;<br \/>\nDirector \u2013 Design Discipline of the Vocational Training Council (VTC), where he&#13;<br \/>\noversaw the strategic and academic development of a diverse portfolio of design&#13;<br \/>\nprogrammes and built relationships with local and international partners. His&#13;<br \/>\ncontribution to design education has won him the Berkeley Prize International&#13;<br \/>\nFellowship in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Joseph is&#13;<br \/>\na Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, and was elected its Council&#13;<br \/>\nMember in 2020. He has served on a number of professional and government bodies&#13;<br \/>\nrelated to sustainable design and development. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Arts in&#13;<br \/>\nArchitecture from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of&#13;<br \/>\nArchitecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctor of&#13;<br \/>\nEducation from the University of Leicester. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prof.&#13;<br \/>\nEric Yim, Chairman of HKDC, said that the Board of Directors was confident that&#13;<br \/>\nJoseph&#8217;s well-developed industry background and experience will steer HKDC&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nfar-reaching mission to the next level, including fostering new opportunities&#13;<br \/>\nbrought forth by the Greater Bay Area development.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nbelieve that Joseph&#8217;s vast industry experience, especially in design education&#13;<br \/>\nand fostering connections with industry and academic partners will be very&#13;<br \/>\nvaluable for HKDC, bringing in fresh knowledge and perspectives as we continue&#13;<br \/>\nto push forward our mission of establishing Hong Kong as an international&#13;<br \/>\ndesign hub,&#8221; said Prof. Eric Yim.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Dr Joseph Wong remarked, &#8220;I am honoured to be named the new&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Director of HKDC, as I have long known and been impressed with its&#13;<br \/>\nwide range of programmes. It is also an exciting time to join the organisation&#13;<br \/>\nas it prepares to establish a new base in Sham Shui Po over the next few years.&#13;<br \/>\nI look forward to working with HKDC&#8217;s diverse stakeholders in carrying on the&#13;<br \/>\ndesign movement, and maximising its mission reach and impact.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong Design Centre expresses its deepest appreciation to Dr Edmund Lee for his&#13;<br \/>\nexcellent stewardship in the past 11 years. Under Edmund&#8217;s leadership, HKDC has&#13;<br \/>\ngreatly expanded its portfolio of programmes and strengthened its institutional&#13;<br \/>\nstructure, poising it for further growth. Edmund has also secured policy support&#13;<br \/>\nfrom the HKSAR Government, raising awareness of the value of human-centred&#13;<br \/>\ndesign thinking among the public service sector as well as the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a design advocate, I am grateful for the opportunity to have&#13;<br \/>\nserved the unique public mission of HKDC and advanced the design mission to one&#13;<br \/>\nincreasingly strategic and human-centric for the city, businesses and the&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity,&#8221; said Dr Edmund Lee. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prof. Eric Yim and the Board of HKDC are thankful to Dr Edmund Lee&#13;<br \/>\nfor his long-term service and significant contributions, and wish him the best&#13;<br \/>\nin his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-15\/81894\/hong-kong-design-centre-names-new-executive-director\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 15 June 2021 &#8211; Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC)&#13; announced today the appointment of Dr Joseph Wong as its new Executive&#13; Director, succeeding Dr Edmund Lee with effect from 1 July 2021. &#13; &#13; Dr&#13; Joseph Wong, new Executive Director of Hong Kong Design Centre effective from 1&#13; July 2021 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}