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In the living room
Get PDFSalone del Mobile is the biggest event in Italy\u27s furniture design calendar -- and now the world. We explore the great innovations from this April\u27s packed-out fair in Milan and look forward to its exciting Shanghai debut
Turning thirty
Get PDFThe Hong Kong Design Institute played host to the kick-off ceremony for the Vocational Training Council\u27s 30th Anniversary on February 29th 2012
Word for word
Get PDFChinese written characters are a vast and intricate language. Eunice Tang explores their complexities and the artists turning them into works of art
Daily sketch
Get PDFDereck Marks is an artist who draws his inspiration from the people around him. After spending three months at the HKDI as a visiting fellow he tells Daniel Jeffreys that Hong Kong is the perfect place to find subjects for his work
Food nation 美食天堂
Get PDFHong Kong derives its name from a Cantonese expression 香港, which means fragrant harbour . Scholars attribute the name to incense factories that stored merchandise in Aberdeen warehouses in the 19th century, but these days it\u27s the scent of cooking that fills the air with sweet aromas as a wave of new restaurants open their doors. As Daniel Jeffreys reports, the city\u27s vibrant culinary scene has made its appetite for skilled labour almost insatiable.
英文 Hong Kong 得自於「香港」的粵語諧音，「香港」意指「芳香之港」。根據學者研究，在19世紀之時，石排灣港口﹝今香港仔一帶﹞因運銷香樹製品馳名遠近，享有「香港」之美譽，其後整座島嶼亦因此得名。時至今日，隨著眾多新餐廳的次第開張，令香港飄香四溢、享譽全球的已不再是香料，而是各種美味佳餚。而這座城市蓬勃發展的飲食業，亦對訓練有素的專業人員求才若渴
Go with the grain 百搭主食
Get PDFDomesticated in Mexico some 10,000 years ago, maise, or corn, is one of the world\u27s most versatile grains. The most common variety is yellow, but you can also find black, purple, blue, pink and red corn. Whichever you choose, there are myriad ways to prepare this humble ingredient.
玉蜀黍或粟米為一萬年前原生於墨西哥，堪稱世上種類最多元化的穀物，除了最常見的黃色，粟米還有黑色、紫色、藍色、粉紅色和紅色等品種。然而，不管什麼顏色，這種價廉物美的食材有很多不同的烹調方式
Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in HongKong
No full textTended to view disability inclusion as merely another mandate, building and construction practitioners have yet to recognize its value in social sustainability. In academia, similarly, it has received less attention than other building performance attributes such as environmental friendliness and indoor air quality. With rights to access now acknowledged as basic human rights, there is demand for a tool to assess building disability inclusiveness, indicating the extent to which building considerations include persons with disabilities (PWDs). This paper proposes a Building Inclusiveness Assessment Score (BIAS) to fill the existing gap. The BIAS framework comprises two hierarchies of inclusion attributes identified from literature, guides, and standards of barrier-free access and universal design. The final product consists of two building disability inclusiveness assessment tools: the Physical Disability Inclusion Sub-score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Sub-score (VIIS). These are simple, quantitative, objective tools for assessing buildings. We performed a Monte Carlo simulation to validate the assessment protocols. Following the validation, we assessed 48 university buildings at four universities in Hong Kong to illustrate the real-life application of the tools
Expressing refusals in child Cantonese: A pilot study
No full textThis paper reports the expression of refusals by young Cantonese-speaking children (N=40, 20 per age group, half boys, half girls) in Hong Kong using oral role-play involving different scenarios. Results showed that Cantonese preschoolers of age 3 and age 5 were able to use strategies such as “No” or “Negated willingness/ability” in their refusals, and older children used more indirect strategies, including the use of reasons or explanations. Further discussion on the use of linguistic devices, and comparison with earlier studies done in other languages will be made at the presentation