CBCC Labs

Innovative Incubation Centre (IIC)

With a kind donation from Wise Life Technologies Limited, Innovative Incubation Centre (IIC) was established under Caritas Bianchi College of Careers (CBCC) and Caritas Institute of Higher Education (CIHE) which aims at combining academic learning and research with industry insights to provide mentoring at the early stage of entrepreneurship of our students and alumni across subject areas, and to accelerate their transformation process with financial, networking and promotion support.

Through the diverse faculties in the areas of Design, Business and Hospitality Management, Computing and information Sciences, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, and Humanities and Languages of CBCC and CIHE, IIC infuses distinctive, diversified professional development programmes to inspire young talents to be the best they can be by striding unceasingly for self-enhancement.

IIC Objectives:

  • Nurture aspiring young entrepreneurs at CIHE and CBCC as future leaders in their endeavours;
  • Create social, cultural and economic impact through select incubation projects;
  • Generate new ideas, learning and industry insights to inform teaching, research and potential enterprise activities;
  • Promote entrepreneurship and cross-disciplinary incubation practices in CIHE and CBCC;
  • Develop multifaceted collaboration with external organizations and industry partners;
  • Cultivate the innovation, design and applied research sensibilities as well as entrepreneurial mindset of incubates, participants and students; and
  • Strengthen innovative young entrepreneurs in wealth and social value creation through sustaining their own enterprises.

DESIGN INCUBATION LAB

Mission：
CBCC Incubation Lab is a non-profit organization whose mission is nurture CBCC Design Alumni who are interested in establishing their own design studios or conducting research and product development. We focus on promoting entrepreneurship and multi-disciplinary practice in design. We aim at cultivating innovation and design sensibilities to secondary schools students.
Objectives:
– Nurturing CBCC design alumni who are interested in establishing their own design studios or conducting research and product development.
– Promoting entrepreneurship and multi-disciplinary practice in design.
– Cultivating innovation and design sensibilities to secondary schools students.

SOCIAL DESIGN LAB

Objectives:
– Providing people-centered design solutions for the community
– Engaging communities to co-create better living experience through design initiatives.
– Providing real life social design project and research opportunities for CBCC design students and teaching staff.
– Fostering the appreciation of design, green living and social innovation through outreach activities to the community.

MATERIAL HERITAGE LAB (PROPOSED)

Objectives:
– Nurturing CBCC design alumni who are interested in establishing their own design studios or conducting research and product development.
– Promoting entrepreneurship and multi-disciplinary practice in design.
– Cultivating innovation and design sensibilities to secondary schools students

PROJECTS

RE-FOOD 無限添食

活動以糧食浪費為主題，一起探索如何在日常生活中實踐可持續發展，透過不同類 型的活動，學生將親身體驗、認識及學習與全球可持續發展、設計思維及社會設計有 關的課題；計劃亦將為學校以「其他學習經歷」角度，設計及提供度身訂造的課程。
– 通過回收、設計製作、銷售展示和批量生產四個範疇，和市民共同塑造一個無限添 飲和可持續的生活觀念。
– 將社會和設計連結一齊，推動教育的節點
– With the theme of food waste, the activity explores how to practice sustainable development in daily life. Through different types of activities, students will experience, understand and learn about topics related to global sustainable development, design thinking and social design. The plan also provides tailor-made courses from the perspective of “other learning experiences”.for schools.
– Through the four categories of recycling, design and production, sales and display, and mass production, we will work with the citizens to create a concept of unlimited drinking and sustainable life.
– Link society and design together and promote the node of education.

LOGOS ACADEMY LOBBY DESIGN

現代的校園建築設計在外觀上可以有很大的不同，從只有一棟主樓的中型學校到低 敞大型的私立學校, 學校建築不單是裝載師生的“教育容器”，而是教學空間、知識展 示空間、信息傳遞空間，同時還是情感交流及認識社會的場所
‒ 所有出色的現代學校建築設計都注重在安全結構設計, 但更重要的是可促進 年輕 人建立社群關係、自律、歸屬感以及充足的活動空間。
‒ 社區設計概念由學生、老師及白英奇設計學院共同創作
‒ 建立設計創作工作坊，共同參與學校的空間設計， 加深他們對學校的歸屬感
‒ Modern campus architectural design can be very different in appearance. From a medium-sized school with only one main building to a spacious and large private school. The school architecture is not only an “education container” for teachers and students, but a teaching space and knowledge display. School also is an information transmission space for emotional communication and understanding of society.
‒ All outstanding modern school architectural design focuses on the design of safe structures, but more importantly, it can promote young people to establish social relationships, self-discipline, sense of belonging, and sufficient space for
– 通過回收、設計製作、銷售展示和批量生產四個範疇，和市民共同塑造一個無限添 飲和可持續的生活觀念。
– 將社會和設計連結一齊，推動教育的節點
– With the theme of food waste, the activity explores how to practice sustainable development in daily life. Through different types of activities, students will experience, understand and learn about topics related to global sustainable development, design thinking and social design. The plan also provides tailor-made courses from the perspective of “other learning experiences”.for schools.
– Through the four categories of recycling, design and production, sales and display, and mass production, we will work with the citizens to create a concept of unlimited drinking and sustainable life.
– Link society and design together and promote the node of education.

NON-SLIP SLIPPERS FOR ELDERLY SENIOR

教育合作夥伴有明愛白硬起Ground Lab、CIMT 和香港知專設計學院
‒ 工業合作夥伴有InnoConcept
‒ 從研發發展到工作坊都有獨立設計師、設計專業的學生和大使或志願者的參與。
‒ Education partners among Ground Lab, CIMT and Hong Kong Design Institute
‒ Industrial partner from InnoConcept
‒ Involvements of Independent Designers, Design students, and Ambassadors/volunteer, from R&D Developments to Workshop