On June 21, ICCSD held the 11th Creativity 2030 Salon themed with "Sustainable Living & Lasting Happiness". Ding Zhaochen, Professor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, was specially invited to interpret innovation and sustainable development.
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Ding Zhaochen: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, High-level talent introduced by Beijingfrom Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Global Scholar of Polytechnic University of Milan and Member of Mobile Media and Cultural Computing Committee, China Institute of Communications
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As we are getting richer, some people are eager for healthier lifestyles and greater happiness. With the basic material needs being met, they strive for a healthier and more sustainable life by regulating their bodies and minds.
In the field of design, Buckminster Fuller advocated doing more with less. Similarly, the architect Rocco Yim proposed to create the maximum value with the minimum resources.
Professor Ding shared practices related to well-being indicating "Doing more with less"
1. Tell Kids About Pandemic Prevention and Control
In January 2020, the kid’s picture books themed on prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemicdrawn by his team within 4 days attracted more than 3.1 million views after being published on the Chinese, English, Spanish, Korean, and Russian CCTV Facebook accounts.
2. Calligraphy Calendar Brings Back the Old Golden Days
The World Health Organization has proclaimed 2020–2030 the Decade of Action on Healthy Ageing. With the purpose of bringing joint efforts from governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media, and the private sector to improve the living conditions of the elderly people, their families, and the communities in which they live.
In the context, the "Calligraphy Calendar" was launched to encourage the elderly to copy one page of Chinese characters every day and regularly exercise their hands and eyes more often while boosting their brain health. Such training activities will not only ease their depression at the old age but bring confidence and sense of achievement. The calendar is intended to improve cognition from four perspectives, namely memory, language and literacy, visual space function, and executive function.
3. Urban Sleep Sanctuary: Sleeping Happily over Blue Skies of Cities
The concept of "Health Promotion", brought up by WHO, refers to a science and art helping people in enhancing and promoting health quality and achieving the ideal state of health through changing habits.
The project of "Urban Sleep Sanctuary" aims to help young white-collar workers in first-tier cities get better sleep by creative designs centered on three themes: learning about sleep (design for sleeping better), eating for happiness (design for eating better), healthy and pleasing leisure activities (design for having fun). Professor Ding, with his team, designed the sleep inducing and healthy diet and showed their vision of an ideal sleep environment.
How to design your bedroom for better sleep? Actually, smart full-length mirrors displaying sleep quality, touch bedside lamps, pillow lullabies and sleep-inducing snacks will all help users create an environment ideal for better sleep.
Design and life are closely related. From the perspective of design, healthy design not only stems from product and service innovation of doctors or institutes, but highlights the role of aesthetics and interestingness which is exactly the unique power of innovation designers endows to the industry. There isstill a long way to go and a heavy responsibility to shoulder in terms of designing for future well-being and offering suggestions for sustainable living.
