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DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade

With @hongkongpalacemuseum opening to the public T

With @hongkongpalacemuseum opening to the public TODAY, we are pleased to share our ongoing behind-the-scenes highlight of #DesignTrust #FuturesStudio 2022: #HeritageIsCreativeGeneration.

With cultural production as an act of collaboration to bridge communities, this year’s DESIGN TRUST FUTURES STUDIO 2022, a total of six months, includes research, preparation with a three-month long making and crafting programme as an accelerated, compressed version of DESIGN TRUST FUTURES STUDIO, spurred further by a creative urgency to explore physical/virtual cultural making, whilst researching on the history of craft and dialogue around positive values of Chinese heritage and legacy building foregrounded the collective efforts. As our lead commissioning partner Hong Kong Palace Museum opens its doors to the public, this will also mark our partnership inspired by Project Twelve, a cultural and design exploratory project using a theme of the twelve animal signs of the Chinese zodiac, to continue its ethos and future creative generation of new zodiac design objects to cultivate new contemporary approaches to making as an intellectual endeavor whilst inspired by the past.

伴隨香港故宮文化博物館開幕，我們欣然分享「未．共研社2022——傳與創：生肖新說」的幕後精選第一集。我們深信文化創作能夠透過合作匯聚社群，今年的「未．共研社」為期六個月，誕生的契機源於疫情下急需以創意探索線上線下的文化創作，並圍繞文化遺產傳承的積極作用來探尋研究工藝文化歷史和帶來新探索和對話，前期研究和準備歷時兩個月，而項目的設計及製作過程在短短三個月完成，成為一次濃縮版本的「未．共研社」。隨著項目的主要委約單位香港故宮文化博物館正式開幕，標誌着文化創作的嶄新篇章，而我們亦會延續計劃伙伴「十二肖」（以十二生肖為題的文化設計探索項目）以創意傳承十二生肖的精神，在未來繼續培養出以歷史為靈感、大膽創新的嶄新當代傳承。

@marisayiu @designtrust #ramanhui @charnyucynthia #chelsialau #dennischan #kantaikeung #chiwinglo #anthonylo #manfungyi #mokyatsan @edwinchan323 @freeman.lau.77
#daisywang #tianlongjiao @bobpang725 @yat_muk @_nikoleung @ch__ang @adonian @thefabricklab @jaqchak @florianchristine_hk @julieandjesse @batten_and_kamp @stickyline @heptagonal @elliot_zhengzhou #maviswong

To continue the momentum from our ‘Research on t

To continue the momentum from our ‘Research on the Move: Dialogues with M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows’ successfully held last Saturday June 25, 2022 @mplusmuseum, we are pleased to announce M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2023 is open for application now. Since 2015, the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship programme has supported original research projects investigating issues relating to design and architecture in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia through a transnational lens. Applicants of the fellowship should engage in advanced research on historical or contemporary topics related to either a single discipline (such as architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and urbanism) or cross-disciplinary developments, taking into consideration the region’s cultural, social, economic, and political conditions as well as its international and cross-cultural knowledge networks.

With the physical opening of the museum, the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2023 continues to support two fellowship projects yet with different focuses. The first fellowship supports a Hong Kong—based researcher’s original enquiry on topics specifically derived from M+ Collection Archives related to design and architecture. The second fellowship supports a researcher or practitioner engaged in historical or practice-based research that contributes to expanding the knowledge of the methods, processes, and impact of design and architectural practices in or across Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia.The deadline for submitting the application is 26 September 2022. More details could be found through https://designtrust.hk/grants/research-fellowships/

Thanks again to all the participants of “Research on the Move” dialogues:
@marisayiu @designtrust @mplusmuseum @flfanling @julikei @josephgrima @t.h.o.m.a.s.d.a.n.i.e.l.l @hue_davies @sampson_wong @lokbi_lokbi @abstract_playscapes @sosbrutalism @yasmin_aryani @charlescwlai @hkarchitecturalhistory @tatjanacrossley @peteracnelson @bobpang725 @brutalism_hk @ruralurbanframework @sunnycheungart @s__surya @doryunchong @ikkoyokoyama

Exciting reunion and sharing at “Research on the

Exciting reunion and sharing at “Research on the Move: Dialogues with M+/Design Trust Research Fellows” was held on last Saturday, 25 June 2022, eight past research fellows(teams) reunited with local researchers and practitioners at Grand Stair @mplusmuseum and online, presenting a provoking marathon of dialogues contextualizing their past research findings into current urgency.

In the second session, 2016 research fellows Juliana Kei and Daniel Cooper reviewed their research on Hong Kong Pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka with Charles Lai, examining the historiography of this special period between modernity and tradition. The conversation between 2019 research fellow Oliver Elser and interlocutor Bob Pang compared different definitions of Brutalism architecture in the contexts of Germany and Hong Kong, and how they have been represented differently in their respective research and curatorial practices. Looking at design and manufacturing industry in the Greater Bay Area, 2016 research fellow Joseph Grima conversed with Siu King Chung on the Chinese interpretation of design authorship from past to present while speculating the commoning of design authorship to empower the community. Expanding beyond the region, the juxtaposition of 2019 research fellow Yasmin Tri Aryani’s research on Indonesia vernacular and interlocutor John Lin’s work in Mongolia shows how traditional lifestyle may inform a modern vernacular language today. The discussion continued in the reflections moderated by Shirley Surya among Charles Lai, Bob Pang, Siu King Chung and John Lin on the importance of constant reinterpretation and reinvention of the past traditions for future visions. Congratulations to the research fellows, interlocutors and moderators for this engaging conversation dialogue series. Stay tuned for more details on Design Trust and M+ partnership programmes coming shortly.

@marisayiu @designtrust
@mplusmuseum @flfanling @julikei @josephgrima @t.h.o.m.a.s.d.a.n.i.e.l.l @hue_davies @sampson_wong @lokbi_lokbi @abstract_playscapes @sosbrutalism @yasmin_aryani @charlescwlai @hkarchitecturalhistory
@tatjanacrossley @peteracnelson @bobpang725 @brutalism_hk @ruralurbanframework

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