To observe the environment and to design objects that fulfill other people’s needs that can be produced directly with a 3-D printer is a Taiwanese industrial designer Sheng-Hung Lee’s main purpose. He seeks to study how people live, think and act within their environment, and to translate those experiences to three-dimensional objects while fulfilling a meaningful function for its users. In order to make these objects easily available, Lee would like to place his construction manual as an Open-Source-Document, so that it is at everyone’s disposal.
Sheng-Hung Lee, born in Taiwan in the year of 1987, is an industrial, product designer and maker at the International Design Consultancy IDEO and Professor in the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts of Fudan University. Lee has finished his studies in 2013 at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), in Taiwan, with a double major in Industrial Design and Electrical Engineering. His work has won prestigious awards including IDEA Gold, Braun Prize, Core77 Design Award, Red Dot (Best of the Best), Spark Design Award, European Product Design Award (Gold) and iF Award. His main goal lies in the research of the influences of Design and Technology on society. Recently, he has redesigned Shanghai Library Innovation Space with the librarians and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government to reshape the public learning experience and make a scalable social impact through humanity-centered design methodology.