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Benny Ding Leong is a Hong Kong based product
designer whose work is known in Italy, Japan, IL
Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Sweden, the USA, and in
Hong Kong and China. After graduating from London’s
Royal College of Art, he worked as a designer in Europe
for five years. He is assistant professor at the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University. His designs and teaching are
influence by his study of Chinese culture.

Ezio Manzini is professor of industrial design at the
Polytechnic of Milan; director of CIRIS, an Interdepart-
mental Centre of Research on Innovation for Sustain-
ability; co-ordinator of the “Dottorato in Disegno indust-
riale” (Ph.D. in Industrial Design); director of the master
in strategic design. Currently he is also chair professor of
design under the distinguished-scholars scheme at the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His work focuses on
innovative processes in the system of production and
consumption and, in particular, on the relationship be-
tween product strategies and environmental policies in
the perspective of sustainable development. He is
member of the Editorial Board of: Journal of Industrial
Ecology (USA), Journal for Sustainable Product Design (UK),
Design Issues (USA) and Design Recherche (France), Pluri-
verso (Italy).

Lisa Norton received the MFA degree from Cranbrook
Academy of Art. Currently she is associate professor, Di-
partment of sculpture at The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. She studies the interdisciplinary overlaps be-
tween public design as well as craft and production sys-
tems. Her interest in objects as extensions of culture has
recently focused on the public art industry in China.
During 2002–03 she will be in residence at the Fujian
Arts and Crafts School in Xiamen, People’s Republic of
China.

Eddy Yu, cofounder of Codesign Ltd., Hong Kong
specializing in branding, packaging and corporate publi-
cations design. With a master degree in design, he is
strongly interested in traditional Chinese philosophies
and their implications on contemporary design and soci-
ety.

Contributors

Hazel Clark spent the 1990s living and working in Hong
Kong. She was head of the Swire School of Design, Hong
Kong Polytechnic, 1992–96, Her research and publica-
tions focussed on issues of design and culture identity,
and included The Cheongsam, Oxford University Press
(Images of Asia), 2000. Since September 2002 she has
been chair of the department of Liberal Studies, Parsons
School of Design, New York.

Cecilia Chu has worked as an interior designer in
Canada and Hong Kong since 1990. Currently she teach-
es at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University
of Hong Kong SPACE, and has been actively involved in
community design projects and research on urban con-
servation.

Clive Dilnot is currently Senior Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs at Parsons School of Design, Nuovo
School University, in New York. Previously, he was
Professor of Design Studies at School of the Art Institute
in Chicago, Director of Graduate Studies in Design at
Hong Kong Polytechnic University and taught at Har-
vard University, in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
and the Graduate School of Design. He has written ex-
tensively and lectured internationally on design and its
context.

Tony Fry, founding director and lead consultant of the
EcoDesign Foundation, his key responsibilities being
director of business development and education. He is
also a director of Team D/E/S Pty Ltd. and holds a posi-
tion as adjunct professor to the faculty of design, archi-
tecture and building, University of Technology, Sydney.
In the late 1990s he was a regular visitor to Hong Kong,
as a professor and an external examiner in design theory.
He is the author of numerous articles, essays and books,
his most recent A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction
to Defuturing, was published by UNSW Press, 1999.

Laurent Gutierrez + Valerie Portefaix—map-office—is a
collaborative studio involved in cross-disciplinary pro-
jects that incorporate architecture and the visual arts.
They have been participating in several local and inter-
national exhibitions and were selected this year for the
VIIth Architecture Venice Biennale. They have published
a number of articles on urban phenomena about Hong
Kong and China. Their book mapping HK (Hong Kong,
map book publishers, 2000), details both the physical
and dynamic transformations taking place in Hong
Kong.

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