Information Science Reference Design Education for Fostering Creativity and Innovation in China (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development)

To maintain their status in the global marketplace, it is imperative for emerging economies to focus on the creation of high quality products in order to compete with organizations worldwide. To increase their economic momentum, it is necessary to utilize innovative and creative strategies to discovery and produce desirable goods. Design Education for Fostering Creativity and Innovation in China discusses the issues surrounding Chinese policy by analyzing the role design education plays in fostering an innovation-based economy. This compendium of contemporary research explores the challenges and opportunities presented by design education, and strategies to foster creativity to sustain China's economic progress. This book is ideal for educators, administrators, students of education, and policy makers in China and abroad. About the Author Kin Wai Michael Siu is Chair Professor of Public Design. He is Founder and Lab Leader of the Public Design Lab, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was the Visiting Scholar of the University of Cambridge, Fulbright Scholar of the MIT, ASIA Fellow of the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Scholar of the UC Berkeley. He has served the Hong Kong Government's advisory committees and professional bodies as members. He owns more than 50 invention and design patents. His research interests are in design culture, public design, universal and inclusive design, and user-reception.Giovanni Contreras is currently working towards his PhD in Design Education at the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been design lecturer and practicing industrial designer in China, the US and Mexico. He was Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cincinnati where he obtained a master of design, and a recipient of the Hong Kong PhD fellowship. He has been member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and winner of the China iF Design Award. His research interests sit at the intersection of philosophy, design, education, and digital technologies.