Award

The project Echo received the WGSN + Arts Thread Future Creators Award New York at the WGSN Futures Summit held at the Museum of Modern Art on November 2. As winners, Mia and Leslie formed part of WGSN and Arts  Thread’s strategy to celebrate one Future Creator Award Winner in each of the six cities that form part of WGSN’s Futures Summit schedule for 2017. Each contest open to emerging talent from the region of the summit, the six winners will represent the finest emerging talent from around the world.

WGSN Insider: Echo: Meet the comforting device for people with Alzheimer’s disease

We interviewed Leslie Mu and Mia Feng, from the Echo team and winners of the Future Creator Awards NY by ARTS THREAD and WGSN, to ask them what was their inspiration for the prototype and how it was developed.

ECUAD: Alumni Leslie Mu + Mia Feng's Health Design Project Receives the WGSN Arts Thread Future Creator Award

The pair received the WGSN + Arts Thread Future Creators Award New York at the WGSN Futures Summit held at the Museum of Modern Art on November 2. As winners, Mia and Leslie will form part of WGSN and Arts  Thread’s strategy to celebrate one Future Creator Award Winner in each of the six cities that form part of WGSN’s Futures Summit schedule for 2017.

Arts Thread: ECHO: PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGN

Echo is a product service system design that consists of a device and a digital application by Leslie Mu and Mia Feng.