This exhibition explores a regenerative design-driven approach to furniture—where modularity, reversibility, and customization redefine how we create, use, and repurpose everyday objects. More than just interlocking blocks, Super Parts function as conceptual units, like pixels in digital media, enabling anyone, expert or non-expert, to design furniture tailored to personal needs and changing contexts.

Organized around three core themes—2D-to-3D, Chair-to-Table, and Waste to Wonder—the exhibition demonstrates how mass customization, generative AI, and reversibility challenge conventional notions of furniture as static and disposable. Visitors will engage with dynamic, reconfigurable pieces and explore how Super Parts support personalized, scalable, and regenerative design. Through hands-on experiments and digital interfaces, participants experience how generative design lowers technical barriers and opens up new possibilities for creative, inclusive making.

As Hong Kong and other high-density cities face increasing bulky waste and a lack of flexible design options, Super Parts propose a new paradigm—furniture that is adaptive, reconfigurable, and designed to evolve with its users and surroundings. By connecting modular integrated manufacturing systems, AI, and public-engaged design, this exhibition envisions a future where sustainable and responsive design solutions emerge without sacrificing material efficiency or creative agency.

Principal Investigator
WU, Kaicong

Exhibition Design
WU, Kaicong

Research Team
LI, Chenming (MArch ’22)
SU, Wenjun (BAAS ’22)
LAU, Bo Yee (MArch ’24)
JIN, Qiongsen (MArch ’25)
LI, Zhiting (MArch ’24)

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