From studio to market: Hong Kong Design Institute’s transdisciplinary path to global design impact

2026.03.18 03:20 HKDI worked in partnership with startup Project Kontemp Ltd and garnered the honour the Red Dot Design Award “Best of the Best” in 2025. Hong Kong is rapidly consolidating its role as Asia’s premier design and creative hub. By aligning strategic policy with both local and national development plans, the city is attracting investment, fostering cross border collaboration, and scaling creative enterprises. Anchored by institutions such as the HKDI, Hong Kong is cultivating a robust, tech-savvy design workforce that blends rigorous education, industry partnerships, and hands-on incubation. Graduates – designers, creative technologists, and cultural entrepreneurs – drive growth not only in local cultural and creative industries but also nationally and beyond. Dr Elita Lam, who took up the role of Principal of the HKDI in 2025, has extensive experience in innovative design education, interdisciplinary teaching, and industry collaboration. She is the driving force behind putting HKDI on Asia’s design spotlight, actively leading HKDI in building a platform that balances thinking and practice, strengthening ties with industry, integrating AI technologies, emphasising humanistic values and social responsibility, and promoting students’ all-round development—to help position Hong Kong as a leading design hub in Asia. As part of the Education Bureau’s Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VPET) ecosystem, HKDI has become a regional engine for tech savvy design talent by intentionally breaking down disciplinary silos and mobilising expertise across its core departments – Architecture, Interior and Product Design, Communication Design, Digital Media, and Fashion and Image Design, says Lam. Principal of the HKDI, Dr Elita Lam (left), has extensive experience in innovative design education, interdisciplinary teaching, and academia/industry collaboration. Imagine a transdisciplinary, innovation-driven environment where fashion students collaborate wit

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