Designer-mentee

Niko Leung, owner of design studio Future is Transparency, is a product designer working in the realm of object, material, installation and spatial design. Leung holds a BDesfrom Design Academy Eindhoven (NL). She was previously a part-time tutor at Lee ShauKeeSchool of Creativity in Hong Kong teaching Visual Art, Design and Spatial Studies. Leung enjoys travelling, had been a resident artist in Jingdezhen (CN), Fiskars (FI), Den Bosch (NL) and Arita(JP). Leung was awarded Young Design Talent Award in 2017 to undertake a work placement at StudiomakeArchitects in Thailand.

Niko has practiced at architectural ceramics manufacturer Royal TichelaarMakkum(NL) as a craftsperson. Eight years in the Netherlands has brought Niko an experimental and can-do attitude in her work. Niko co-founded “Hong Kong Soil” with Loky Leung in 2021, as an initiative to research and advocate purposeful reuse of discarded soil from local construction sites. The “Hong Kong Soil” initiative is a Design Trust Feature Grant Project.