Jessie Seo & Yanki Lee, Ire Tsui

Jessie Seo

Jessie Seo is Director of Corporate Social Innovation at Eisai Korea, a multinational pharmaceutical company which specialises in research and development of drugs for oncology and neurology. 

She has led organisational development and innovation management work at Eisai Korea, supporting and growing various citizen-led corporate social innovation initiatives such as Now Social Innovation Network and Cancer Survivor Living Lab.

Yanki Lee

Dr Yanki Lee is a designer with international design experience and graduated with an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art. In 2003, she was awarded a research studentship for her doctoral research in which she built up her expertise in design participation and was awarded a PhD in design from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her thesis, entitled, 'Design Participation Tactics; involving people in the design of their built environment' explored a range of methodologies to design participation.Yanki also focuses on exploring tactics for public engagement in design and creative practice. 

Ire Tsui

Trained as a designer and anthropologist, Ire Tsui is a design editor, researcher and creator, based in Hong Kong. 

The founder of Talking Hands Studio and co-founder of Enable Foundation, a non-profit social design collective. 

Tsui works collaboratively with designers, artists, cultural institutions and media, to produce exhibition programmes and workshops.

The projects include: Zansyu, A Study on Beiwei Calligraphy and Type Design; micro-factory HK; RTHK HK Programme: Everyday Design; Who Cares? PolyU SD Press and etc.