Exploring Fine Dying, Ageing and Dementia Through Action Research with Dr Yanki Lee.
Every week, artist and entrepreneur Oscar Venhuis talks with fellow artists, curators, collectors and gallerists in Asia. The Last Supper podcast is available on Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast.
Dr Yanki Lee, founder of Enable Foundation
Episode 3 | I sit down with Dr Yanki Lee to discuss social dogmas in Hong Kong. Instead of focusing on solutioning, her action-based practice concentrates on emergence, offering the observer fresh perspectives on the subject that is being addressed. The three projects we talk about are dementia, ageing and fine dying.
Dr Yanki LEE is an architectural designer, social innovator, design activist and expert in design research for social inclusion and participation. She has extensive experience collaborating with designers and enabling them to engage users in the design process. As an international speaker and writer, Dr Lee has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and articles.
In 2000 Yanki was awarded an MA degree in Architecture from the Royal College of Art (RCA), she went on to join the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) and became a UK resident. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2012 for her contribution to the Helen Hamlyn Centre, the RCA community and design research. In 2017 Yanki established the Enable Foundation in Hong Kong, using startup funding from HKSAR Government’s Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) as part of the Social Innovation Design Lab (SI.DLab).
Enable Foundation is a non-profit social design collective with expertise in cross-generational co-creative and design research practices, set up for real-world impact. Enable Foundation aims to develop capacity training programmes and projects on design thinking & doing. It also aims to facilitate projects that uncover creativity within individuals/organisations from private and public sectors.
Dr Yanki Lee in front of the Dementia Jackets which were part of her Dementia Metaphor project.
Dr Yanki Lee
Personal website: www.yankilee.com
Enable website: www.enable.org.hk
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