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Feastopolis is a restaurant using users' diet behaviour to generate dishes. The goal is to advocate a data-informed lifestyle that empowers people to be healthier and conscious about their daily behaviour with a sense of exploration of food.

Voices shaping better spaces. STUDIO is a digital platform enabling social housing residents facing demolition and rebuilding of their homes to directly translate their voices into 3D shapes and a collective neighborhood vision. A model never achieved before, this platform brings an inclusive bottom-up resident-led approach to social housing planning.

Tired of seeing negative media headlines about big techs? Discover F*** Ethics. A program for incubators to help tech start-ups consider and act upon the ethical implications of their digital products or services. Through a three-step journey, founders and their teams learn to future proof their digital solution from the get-go.

Datagym is an experiential educational platform that teaches clinicians and technologists how to use data as a building block for improvement and innovation. We provide support and a safe space for learning, collaboration, and experimentation through real world projects in clinical organisations.

A community powered validation platform for B2C startups inside incubators. It connects communities with startups based on interests. Founders test their startups’ viability via community-sourced insights. The community discovers new startups and gets paid while interacting with them. Incubators observe the early traction and de-risk their portfolio of startups.

Datagym is a course that educates staff across the board in healthcare to understand why data is important and how they can improve healthcare by making use of it. This is done through a collaborative, multidisciplinary, experiential learning approach in which learners are able to work on real-world projects and expand their horizons.

WellBe is a consultant service that provides a fun and gamified learning platform, which improves wellbeing and healthy habits of the workforce, as well as the overall productivity and flexibility scheme in the workplace. The platform collects data of employees’ engagement, which will be reported back to the organisation.

Pebble is a tailor-made virtual assistant that aims to serve companies with remote working needs and improve the lives of workers. Pebble promotes happiness and productivity in the workplace by helping employees build meaningful connections, switch between work modes to better manage their work and build healthy work habits.

NatureBreak is a service to support employees at an organisational level to take time out to explore nature and receive social support when working from home.Improving wellbeing, adopting a healthier lifestyle and more productive working through an organic combination of work and rest.

Menopeer is a service for Japanese women experiencing menopausal symptoms. As a buddy during the menopause, menopeer helps them to get on the right track by relieving their fears and confusion.

STARLY is an educational entrepreneurship project about resilience education for Chinese youth. It seeks to develop a roadmap for teenagers to adapt to life challenges and grow even stronger than before. In addition, it creates the opportunity for teenagers to accept new ideas, frustration, and cognitions through experience, thereby promoting their self-growth. There are 3 main actions: reflect, connect, apply.

ToU is a critical design project that explores the boundary between technology and people. Especially when the pandemic becomes a new normal, looking for the future and posibility in the hybrid meeting scenario of small to medium size chinese companies.

Foneship is a service focusing on ‘Relationship’ and ‘Phone’. It is a self-help tool for smartphone users to build a healthier relationship with their smartphones to ultimately achieve their personal digital wellbeing.

MEVo is a method for champions (Healthcare Professionals within the Local Maternity System) to facilitate dialogue among South Asian mothers to record, collect and embed the local voices of mothers in their transformation process, using a stage-based guided set of tools supported by the MEVo platform.

Olympia is a genderless public urinal equipped with the necessary elements for a comfortable, safe, easy and private urinary experience. For anyone who needs to urinate outside of their home.

ELDERHOOD is a charity organisation aimed at supporting residents' holistic wellbeing in their later lives.

Panasonic Aijia is a smart portable projector that works as a home hub connecting all home appliances as well as multiple homes, with consent. It aims to enhance family relationships in the aging society of China.

A project-based online platform for migrant children to explore their own community and social support that is available.

‘Hello, 60’ is a platform that focuses on the health and nutrition of the elderly in China. It happens under the background of ageing society and aims to provide home-based elderly a health guarantee.

YOU is a cross-media service with a three-step spinal health assessment kit that uses practical self-examination tools and customised navigation to help teens catch scoliosis symptoms early and build a positive attitude towards body posture.

HEY is a B2B&B2C platform. Collaborating with primary schools, migrant students can explore local culture through a monthly HEY-Magazine and HEY-Community with social support and backing from teachers and primary schools.

S-Geek is a social service empowering the voice of the elderly against the non-ageing-friendly services through participatory design.

Wild Hunter is a treasure hunt that allows families with children aged 6-10 to experience entry-level nature-based education in urban greenfield near home. With the help of toolkit, guideline and online platform, families would develop emotional connection with nature and perceive the value of nature-based education.

MintKids is a service ecosystem seeking to improve animal welfare in China. By applying animal behavioural knowledge to different stages of a pet owning experience, MintKids empowers dog owners to have a better understanding of their dogs and enables a sustainable future for animal welfare systems.

Getting a driver’s license doesn’t mean people smoothly become skilled drivers. How might we provide assistance for new drivers in order to overcome their driving challenges? Nopi, an invisible driving companion, helps new drivers to drive more confidently and safely throughout the key moments of their driving journeys.

Coneighbour is a service that matches citizens' interests/skills and community entities, such as local businesses, welfare groups, and hobby clubs to engage within the local community.

Parkpal is a digital-based map service for young people to easily find interesting places, activities and events in green spaces in Walsall.

The Lost Stories Collective challenges the way we consume culture by situating communities-of-place at the heart of storytelling. Through a community-led and community-curated experiential journey consisting of place-based interventions, we empower neighbours to take ownership of their local histories, start a conversation, and keep it going.

Following L’Oréal Group’s sustainability commitment, the To-Morrow plan proposes an end-to-end sustainable beauty consumption experience for L’Oréal’s customers in China with the aim to empower a positive circle of sustainable beauty in the Chinese market.

Bebop is a platform that distributes indie music by connecting people. We aim to find more diehard fans for indie musicians and provide a more friendly and exciting way for audiences to access and explore different music.

Stepping Stones is a service teaching a toilet training method inspired by the practices of indigenous peoples from around the world. It helps infants to develop continence before their first birthday. It is beneficial to child health, and the environment.

RE:UP is the platform for consumers, small to medium independent fashion brands, and individual fashion designers to become a part of the circular fashion economy, through sharing environmentally-based information. It aims to reduce waste from the fashion industry, making consumers, fashion brands, fashion designers become part of the whole cycle in a more conscious way.

Experience Due Diligence is the name of a customer-centric framework designed to validate and test mergers and acquisitions deals.

Generate is a protection scheme for sustainable homes. More and more people are moving towards producing and consuming their energy, but this sustainable lifestyle carries risks.

MARGA is an incubator to help design students get better capability enhancement and find jobs.

Following L’Oréal Group’s sustainability commitment, the To-Morrow plan proposes an end-to-end sustainable beauty consumption experience for L’Oréal’s customers in China with the aim to empower a positive circle of sustainable beauty in the Chinese market.

Stepping Stones is a service teaching a toilet training method inspired by the practices of indigenous peoples from around the world. It helps infants to develop continence before their first birthday. It is beneficial to child health, and the environment.

RE:UP is the platform for consumers, small to medium independent fashion brands, and individual fashion designers to become a part of the circular fashion economy, through sharing environmentally-based information. It aims to reduce waste from the fashion industry, making consumers, fashion brands, fashion designers become part of the whole cycle in a more conscious way.

MARGA is an incubator to help design students get better capability enhancement and find jobs.

Bebop is a platform that distributes indie music by connecting people. We aim to find more diehard fans for indie musicians and provide a more friendly and exciting way for audiences to access and explore different music.

Experience Due Diligence is the name of a customer-centric framework designed to validate and test mergers and acquisitions deals.

Generate is a protection scheme for sustainable homes. More and more people are moving towards producing and consuming their energy, but this sustainable lifestyle carries risks.

SEED is a hybrid of tools and services for delivery teams and employees to engage with new practices by targeting the phases of learning and trying to alleviate the needs of the employees and delivery teams in the public sector.

The purpose of design has shifted from market-oriented aesthetics to meaningful methodologies and ideas. And the environment we design for is increasingly complex. Yet there is hardly time to critically reflect in between deadlines. The Capsule Guild works to learn and does things differently by joining a collective reflective practice.

UNIT is a monetary model with an incorporated currency. It provides Basic Income to all citizens, giving governments a better way to fund their programmes based on a set of rules that dictate how money is created, distributed and destroyed, accounting for people’s basic needs while incentivising work and innovation.

Learning Pods is a road map to build a community of practice for knowledge around systems thinking. With UNDP and their City Experiment Fund initiative, we explored continued learning in country offices for growing organisational capability by a series of tools and interventions to embed a learning infrastructure within internal programmes.

Zoom Shooter is a Zoom plugin that provides barrage interaction for students around the world who are having online courses.

Aethos is the service to issue the 21st century receipt to get to know the real values behind your possessions. It’s based on the simple idea that we should easily be able to understand how the products we buy have impacted people and planet.

Mobilise is a platform aimed at creating “a little mind space” in everyday caring life. Unlike the present scattered and disconnected services, Mobilise provides seamless onboarding experience and personalised services for unpaid carers through community-based cross-sectoral collaboration.

Atom is a series of interventions to help people transition into autonomous vehicles - designed for a pilot period launching in late 2021. Working with Jaguar Land Rover, the real heart of our design work has been around building trust, unlocking new experiences, and encouraging deeper relationships.