City Jam
Design your city. Everyday
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July 2018
Design your city. Everyday
City Jam
Founded in real challenges
Experts will join at key moments to inform the designer’s process. Coming from the city’s biggest public service providers, they’ll add a dose of reality our the work.
Collision of minds
With designers and experts from all different backgrounds in the room, we’ll work across institutional boundaries to find the opportunities that lie in the gaps.
All the themes
Rather than pigeonholing our work into sectors, we are looking at a broad array of challenges all at once: housing, public space, mobility and utilities.
What are we working on?
Innovate the city
Public space
Malls. Overhead walkways. Sitting-out areas. Sidewalks. Streets. Parks. Beaches. Plazas. Street cleaning. Benches. Playgrounds. Trash cans. Street lights. Public toilets. How do we use them? Why are there so many funny rules? What else is possible?
Housing
Apartment blocks. Communities. Housing complexes. Lobbies. Postboxes. Clubhouses. Co-living. Rules and regulations. Building management. How do we live together? How do we share our spaces? Could they be more accessible? What else can we do?
Mobility
Trams. Cars. Bus stops. Walkways. Push-carts. Bikes. MTR. Buses. Taxis. Taxi drivers. Gondolas. Stations and stops. Stairs. Airports. Feet. How do we get around the city? How do we move stuff? What else is possible?
Utilities
Water. Electricity. Landlines. Mobile phones. Internet. Gas. Pipes. Wires. Police. Fire department. Libraries. Post offices. How do we access utilities? How do we interface with them? Is there anything else we all need?
Participate
Design our city's future.
Jammers
Experienced designers, technologists and business innovators should join the challenge. You’ll meet, work with and learn from people from all kinds of backgrounds.
Learn from each other.
Collaborate with the city’s best service and experience designers. Work together. Learn from each other. Break out of your day to day.
Everyday issues.
Get outside your routine topics, and work on things that affect everyone in the city everyday.
Meet the experts.
Get to know the people who make Hong Kong’s public services happen. Learn from what they know. Share your inspiration and ideas with them.
City Experts
See the future.
Get ideas about how the city could work.
Up your game.
Learn how design thinking is used in innovation. Bring this new mindset back to your job.
Meet the designers.
Get to know the people who design Hong Kong’s most innovative experiences, apps and services.
Schedule
Friday, you’ll be up to your ears in post-its. Saturday, you’ll have a finished prototype.
Friday
9am to 10pm
Come up with ideas. Talk to experts. Pick a challenge. Build teams. Get to work. Research the problem. Talk to users. Map and sketch solutions. Make mistakes. Have fun.
Saturday
9am to 9pm
Make rough prototypes. Make fancy prototypes. Keep talking to users. Keep building your idea. Get in a fight. Present your prototype. Win a prize. Celebrate.
Sponsorship
Support the community.
Our jam is the meeting place of the most innovative people in Hong Kong. By partnering with us you’ll meet these talented people, and get firm footing in the local UX and service design community.