Sharing Social Innovation with HKU Master’s Students
Can Placemaking Make Living Alone Feel Less Lonely?
Celebrating AIA HK Citations 2025
From Hong Kong to Quebec City: Championing Art-Led Placemaking at EXMURO PRO
onebite & Leigei Stone join Clerkenwell Design Week 2026
In collaboration with innovative material partner Leigei Stone, onebite will join Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) 2026, transforming the open space at Clerkenwell Green into a vibrant sensory experience designed to raise awareness for Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD), commonly known as colour blindness.
Design with Precarity: 4 Lessons from the Pacific Rim Community Design Network
Be My Buddy Buddy Campaign wins 2025 Golden Pin Award
On the stage of the 2025 Golden Pin Design Award ceremony in Taiwan, our project, "Be My Buddy Buddy," was selected as one of the winners in the Integration Design - Social Design category.
GUTS Report 2025: Why Do Some Shopping Malls Lose Footfall While Others Thrive?
GUTS, the knowledge platform powered by onebite RESEARCH dedicated to rethinking urban spaces, has released its latest findings on the rise and fall of shopping malls. This detailed investigation is now presented in our free report, “GUTS Report 2025: From Shopping Centre To Community Core”.
Luen Wo Market Exhibition won Special Mention at HKICON Awards 2024
Connecting a community with its heritage has been the red thread of many of our projects that are particularly meaningful to us. The Luen Wo Market Exhibition, which received the Special Mention in the Interpretation Category at the Hong Kong Institute of Architectural Conservationists Awards (HKICON) 2024, is a case in point.
HKIA Special Award for Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival
One Bite Design Studio has been awarded the HKIA Special Award - Architectural Installation, Curation & Exhibition Design for our work on the Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival (SKHAF) 2022-2024. This recognition is deeply meaningful because the Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival was a three-year journey shared with many, and a true labour of love.
GREEN@COMMUNITY is selected finalist at World Architecture Festival 2025
World Architecture Festival recognises that a recycling depot can be an awards-show material, and has selected the GREEN@COMMUNITY Recycling Stores Project as a Finalist at the WAF25 Awards in the Interiors - Public Buildings category.
Project House @1QRW wins Australian Good Design Awards - Social Impact
The Australian Good Design Awards, one of the world’s longest-running international design award programmes, has announced 2025 Australian Good Design Award Winners. This year’s theme, “Design for Better”, underscores the vital role design plays in shaping a more balanced, inclusive, and sustainable world. Among the Winners was Project House @1QRW, recognised with a prestigious Australian Good Design Award Winner accolade in the Social Impact category.
Be My Buddy Buddy Campaign wins Australian Good Design Awards - Social Impact
The Australian Good Design Awards, one of the world’s longest-running international design award programmes, has announced 2025 Australian Good Design Award Winners. This year’s theme, “Design for Better”, underscores the vital role design plays in shaping a more balanced, inclusive, and sustainable world. Among the Winners was the Be My Buddy Buddy campaign, recognised with a prestigious Australian Good Design Award Winner accolade in the Social Impact category.
onebite’s UK Debut at London Design Festival 2025
Our Business can be a Force for Good: onebite’s B Corp Journey
By challenging the stereotype that doing good and making profits cannot exist at the same time, we want to tell people that companies like onebite can focus on doing doing good and be commerical sustainable as well.
Making Space for Inclusiveness (Part 2)
Through the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and co-creation, can we reimagine urban spaces, foster community initiatives, and champion inclusivity to transform the heart of Hong Kong into a vibrant, liveable and caring neighbourhood?
Making Space for Inclusiveness (Part 1)
What’s the essence of co-creation? It is a prefect synthesis of listening to users’ needs, observing their use context, and iterating solutions together that makes them exclaim, “Why hasn’t this appear earlier!”
Community life on demand in ground-floor shop spaces: Tactical placemaking in Hong Kong
onebite launched the urban ‘matching’ platform Project House as a pop-up design to steer city regeneration and community revival. Using a tactical place-making approach, Project House pairs vacant shops with local social groups facing spatial needs. The win–win results bring local exposure to pop-up vacant shops while providing marginalised community groups with adequate space for new social practices.
The 8 tips we learnt to collaborate beyond physical place
When we talk about placemaking, we usually start with “place”. Despite the boundary of 'place' becoming blurry between physical and virtual, people remain at the core of the experience. Show care and pay extra attention to details. Embrace the new normal with openness, fun, and new twists.
Food Brings People Together
With rising cost of living and greater societal inequality making it harder for some to put food on their family’s table, can community initiatives do more than just offer an uninspiring lunch box?