Breaking news! A few staff teams under Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services (including us editors) have already moved bases to the recently opened InnoPort. We simply can't wait for more interdisciplinary and interdepartmental events to take place here. While Cubic Zine is alive and well, we’ll “go lean” and bring you more diversified content on innovation and entrepreneurship!

In an interview, David Kelley emphasised that design thinking is all about “empathy. Really try to understand what they really value.” Steered by such humanistic spirit, IDEO came to be a world-famous design and innovation consultancy – despite David not starting off with a design background...

Prof Fanny Cheung barely took her seat when she started “protesting”; apparently too many interviewers were fixated merely on her early community work in women’s development. A trace of a smile on her lips, the petite professor slowly unravelled to us tales of her “extra-curricular activities”...

As Japanese anime tied Johnson in with Cantonese, so did the 2003 SARS epidemic lead him down the path of public health research...

When keeping others company, ever wonder what to say or do to console them? The first step in companionship is actually "listening" - listening to yourself, and listening to each other. How do we learn to be listeners to one another?

Autistic children struggle with social interactions and learning. The team adopts a novel approach of massage therapy to improve their conditions...

I-CARE collaborates with different units in CUHK to offer student programmes that echo the University’s devotion to nurturing well-rounded graduates in serving the needs and enhancing the well-being of the citizens of Hong Kong, China, and international community...

SoCUBE empowers scholars to innovate for social progress. We incubate cross-disciplinary ideas from academia to generate multi-dimensional impact in society. While SoCUBE focuses on facilitating researchers’ ventures, our partners in CUHK contribute to programmes that complete our social innovation ecosystem...