2025 Leadership Forum – Beyond Interdisciplinarity

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Date

01 Dec 2025
Organiser

PolyU Design
Time

09:00 - 17:00
Venue

Senate Room (M1603), Block M, PolyU Map

Speaker

Moderator, Panel Discussion Chair: Prof. Gerhard Bruyns

Prof. Kun Pyo LEE

Prof. Don NORMAN

Dr Atsushi HASEGAWA

Prof. Anne BODDINGTON

Dr Edmund LEE

Prof. Miles PENNINGTON

Dr Ricky TUSI

Dr Jidong YIM

Summary

The 2025 Leadership Forum on Beyond Interdisciplinarity is a concurrent event within the programme of Business of Design Week (BODW), a flagship event organised annually by the Hong Kong Design Centre and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design). This year, the Leadership Forum is scheduled for 1 December 2025 as a hybrid event. Traditionally, the Forum brings together industry professionals and academic leaders to share their perspectives and insights.

The Leadership Forum on Beyond Interdisciplinarity will be a public forum, open to everyone, both online and in person at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our aim is for the Forum to be impactful and to provide guidance to design educators around the world.

Registration

The "2025 Leadership Forum on Beyond Interdisciplinarity"

Dates: 1 December 2025 (Monday)
Venue: Senate Room (M1603), Block M, PolyU, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
All are welcome. Please register in advance to reserve your seat: register here.

Rundown of Forum

AM Session

Time (HKT or UTC/GMT+8 hr)	Moderator: Prof. Gerhard BRUYNS Associate Dean, School of Design,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
09:00AM	Registration
09:30AM	Welcome Remarks Prof. Kun Pyo LEE Dean, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
09:35AM	Introduction of this year's theme Prof. Gerhard BRUYNS Associate Dean, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
09:50AM	Prof. Don NORMAN Don Norman Design Award and Summit, a nonprofit charity Topic: Design in the 21st Century
10:20AM	Dr Atsushi HASEGAWA President of Concent, Inc., and Vice President of Human Centered Design Organization, Japan Topic: Design Attitude, Design Abduction, and Design Confidence as potential pathways “beyond interdisciplinarity”
10:50AM	Networking break
11:05AM	Prof. Anne BODDINGTON Professor of Design Innovation, Creative Intelligence Collective Ltd. Topic: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Breathlessness in Design, Design Education, and Design Research
11:35AM	Panel Discussion 1. Chair: Prof. Gerhard BRUYNS, PolyU Design Speakers: Prof. Don NORMAN; Dr Atsushi HASEGAWA; Prof. Anne BODDINGTON and Prof. Kun Pyo LEE
12:20PM	END of AM Session

PM Session

Time	Moderator: Prof. Gerhard BRUYNS Associate Dean, School of Design,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
02:00PM	Dr Edmund LEE General Manager and Head of Group ESG, Gold Peak Technology Group
02:20PM	Prof. Miles PENNINGTON Professor of Design Led Innovation, The University of Tokyo Topic: Beyond Interdisciplinary
02:50PM	Dr Ricky TUSI East Asia Ventures Lead and Director of East Asia Arup University Topic: “Total Design,” a distinctive and integrated approach that transcends conventional interdisciplinary collaboration
03:20PM	Networking break
03:35PM	Dr Jidong YIM Head of Scientific Experience Research, LG Electronics Topic: Superhuman or more human? What do we want to be with Artificial Intelligence?
04:05PM	Panel Discussion 2. Chair: Prof. Gerhard BRUYNS, PolyU Design Speakers: Dr Edmund LEE; Prof. Miles PENNINGTON; Dr Ricky TUSI; Dr Jidong YIM
04:50PM	Closing Remarks: Prof. Kun Pyo LEE Dean, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
05:00PM	END of Forum