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Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks Initiative

Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks Initiative and four Design Trust grant projects including “By Us For Us: Future Proof Narratives of a Third Housing for Hong Kong” by Guillaume Othenin-Girard & Kent Mundle, “Estate Centres, Postwar Public Amenities in Hong Kong Public Housing” by Jeffrey Cheng and Kris Provoost, “Social Condenser Extraordinaire: Hong Kong’s Municipal Services Buildings” by Ying Zhou and Fai Au, and “Photovoltaic Hybrids: Hong Kong’s Experiment on Climate-Responsive Architecture by Emily Po & Quentin Yiu” are featured at “Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive” at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 Hong Kong Exhibition from May 10th to November 23rd 2025, curated by Design Trust grant recipients Ying Zhou and Fai Au, with Sunnie SY Lau. The exhibition also involves active participation from the extended Design Trust research network community where 15 Design Trust former and current grantees, participated in this exhibition representing Hong Kong on a global stage in this year’s Venice Biennale.

Showcasing Hong Kong’s overlooked but significant post-war public architecture and their civic aspirations through the media of an archive, together with the construction of a stage using bamboo scaffolding in the outdoor courtyard space, the exhibition “Projecting Future Heritage: An Archive of Hong Kong,” which opened at la Biennale Architettura in Venice and representing Hong Kong on May 9th 2025. Design Trust Co-founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director Marisa Yiu also joined as a speaker in the Forum “Archiving of Architecture and Urbanism” on May 8th 2025, alongside guests Philip Ursprung from the ETHZ, Max Hirsh from NUS and the Airport City Academy, Design Trust grantee Guillaume Othenin-Girard and moderated by Eunice Seng of HKU.

THANK YOU for your support! We are pleased to shar

THANK YOU for your support! We are pleased to share that our DESIGN TRUST FUTURES FESTIVAL 2025: “The Art of Transformation” at Murray House, Stanley Plaza has welcomed over 16,500 visitors from March 22nd to June 18th from Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and internationally. With the support of our collective community, we have hosted more than 40 events with 16 community programmes, tours and workshops delving into the extraordinary coastal area of Stanley to engage with the historic piers, to the popular annual dragon boat festival, heritage monuments and the seaside culture of Hong Kong. The inaugural DESIGN TRUST FUTURES FESTIVAL 2025: “THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION” collaborated with over 60 designers, artists, architects and curators, over a three-month period at Murray House, Stanley Plaza where the 19th Century Victorian-era building, fronted by Blake Pier and Ma Hang Park, shares on new perspectives on material ecologies, ocean connectivity that links the 263 islands of Hong Kong, as a space for dialogue to speculate on the future of spaces, urbanism and creative discovery. A sincere thank-you to all the participating architects, artists, designers and creative community and our long-term partners, supporters and Lead Venue Sponsor and Exhibition Co-sponsor Link Asset Management. The finale of Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 at Murray House, Stanley Plaza, continues the efforts of the spirit of the micro-festival, as an experimental project, to explore future iterations. Stay tuned for our upcoming programmes and events!

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Design Trust Heritage Innovator 2024 Honouree, wor

Design Trust Heritage Innovator 2024 Honouree, world renowned Hong Kong-based architect Rocco Yim, and Design Trust Futures Studio 2019 mentor and UNESCO Chair on Architectural Heritage Conservation and Management in Asia, Professor Puay Peng Ho, were invited as special respondents at the finissage event “Design Trust Sketchalogues”. In response to the sharing from all the speakers, Rocco shared: “ I’m very happy that most, if not all of the images I have seen today are not computer generated. I saw actual hand-drawn sketches, hand-drawn samples and hand-drawn pieces. I started to know these people and read their way and souls. If you look at Le Corbusier, the drawings and the sketches represent two different personalities. If you look at his hand-drawn sketches for the cities, the towers, the highways, the master urban planning, you see boring, intimidating and almost brutal vision of what future cities are. But then you look at his drawings, color books, painting sketches, you see beautiful shapes and spaces. There is a duality being revealed from the sketches and drawings.” Reflecting on Henry Steiner’s Fishing Vessel stamps, Rocco also commented: “In your stamps you are sending a message that we should remember our history, our past and where we came from. Diligent fishermen earn a living and provide good food for the population. Even today Hong Kong is well-known for its love of Seafood,” contextualising the dialogues at Murray House along the Stanley coastal shoreline. Rocco also applauded the duality of Island Works from digital scanning to freehand sketches to understand the island culture of Hong Kong.

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