郭達麟 Dylan Kwok Tat-Lu
郭達麟 Dylan Kwok Tat-Lu
[ Spatial Designer ]
Dylan Kwok, who recently returned to his hometown after 15 years abroad, is the co-owner of PIORA project (deisgnpiora.com). Born in Hong Kong, He received his interior design education from Ryerson University (Canada) and his master degree in Spatial Design from University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland). He previously worked as an interior architect for companies in Toronto and held a teaching position in Aalto University's School of Design in Finland. Kwok was selected for the 40 under 40 Perspective 2011 as one of the upcoming Design Stars of Tomorrow followed by the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award in 2009. Kwok has experienced different cultural settings in ideologically contrasting societies in various cities in East Asia, North America and the Scandinavia in the past decades, thus developed a strong interest in the relationship between humanistic design and urban environment. He is now working with the Architecture School of Chinese University of Hong Kong on projects related to urban liveability and design activism.



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"First noted by Edward Thorndike, the halo effect is a cognitive bias that involves one trait influencing others in one's judgment of another person or object." A circular florescent tube is a simple lighting device to illuminate. When it is placed behind a person's head, the ring of light can be easily regarded as a halo. In iconography, halos are usually applied around holy figures in religious art to indicate the important figures. Halos can be found in different ancient art forms: From the ancient gods of Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the sacred figures in Hinduism and Buddhism, halo is not a symbol used exclusively in Christianity. Despite the religious connotation, halos have been used also to glorify important figures, like The Mughal emperor Jahangir who often had himself depicted with a halo. In popular culture, it has also been appeared above heads of deceased persons. A mouth-less innocent boy pointing up into the sky seems like he was trying to tell a story… There were 8.8 million child (under the age of 5) deaths in 2008 according to UNICEF. Most of the children were killed from preventable causes: Poverty, starvation, easily avoidable diseases and illness. The haloed Tian Tian is a reminder to the visitors of the EXPO, who travel from industrialized countries, to see this multi-billion-6-month installation that every 3.6 seconds, there is a child dying from preventable causes on the other side of the same world. Living in 'One World', do we all have 'Better Life'?