Sixth Week in Hangzhou
We started design fiction, a new course this week. On Wednesday morning, the professor asked us to visit the exhibition in the 1st floor of Yuehua building as the beginning of the design fiction...
DATE 2019 Week 1: Hmmm Hang Zhou
Before coming to Hangzhou had the impression that China is a dirty place, where air quality is unfavorable, and traffic is chaotic. However, after spending the first week at Zhenjiang University, made me learned...
[WK7] Finding Singapore in HangZhou
This week, our research project started idea generation to develop a smart shelving solution for warehouses in China. Overall, I feel that the progress is going rather smoothly although I'm sure most of us...
Working and Exploring in Hangzhou – DATE Week 8
This week was a mixture of grinding for our project and some exploration around the city area.
As usual, we continued our Design Fiction classes and this week, we had to make some posters and...
WEEK 11 – Life Updates
Theme Project updates
Although my team and I have worked on our project since the start of the DATE program, this week marks the official start of the final prototyping of our intelligent lamp. My...
Recess Week At Zhangjiajie – DATE WEEK 10
Since this week was recess week, many of us took this opportunity to travel around China to explore this vast country. Some of us went to Inner Mongolia to bask in the sands of...
Exploring the City
Exploring
On My Third day of Chongqing I decided to take it a little more chill. I checked out of my hotel room and decided to go to the old part of the town. I...
Week 7: End of DIP and the start of Research Project!
This week, we all rushed to finish up DIP as Thursday was the big presentation with over 200+ people in the auditorium. Everyone put in the effort to help out in one way or...
Week 4 – Big koi fishes and fried starfish
It's our 4th week here and luckily, I think we're getting used to the heat and the mosquitoes. We went on an excursion to 吴山广场 (Wushan Square) this week and visited many places in...
DATE Week 2: Pursuing Life to the fullest
Week 2 at China: Understanding emotions
Origami Robots
This week was the start of lectures and lessons for our Origami Robots course. We were a little taken aback by the lesson's style because it was in...
