Marisa Yiu

29. 6. 2022

Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director
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MARISA YIU is the Co-founder, Lead Curator/Executive Director of DESIGN TRUST, an initiative of registered charity, the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design. She has been instrumental in leading the growth of the non-for-profit initiatives since 2008; catalysed the grants & fellowships programmes since 2014, conceptualized the “Design Trust Futures Studio” flagship programme 2017 as a design community think-tank on micro-parks in Hong Kong, to heritage and innovation partnerships. Previously, she was the Chief Curator of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture located at the West Kowloon waterfront; and curated Studio-X Shenzhen. Yiu is the Founding Partner of ESKYIU (established in 2005), an award winning multi-disciplinary architecture studio. Along with her partner Eric Schuldenfrei, they are the recipients of the ‘Architectural League Prize’ for their installations featured in the Venice Biennale, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard recognition and Design for Asia Award for Ephemera, commissioned by Swire Art Basel and Movement culture for Ido Portal. Yiu is an active speaker at numerous global platforms including UNESCO forum, Asia Society, BoDW, M+ Museum to Harvard’s AsiaGSD conference. She has taught at London’s Architectural Association, GSAPP Columbia, Parsons, HKU, and CUHK. Yiu is an AIA member, HKIA associate, served on the Board of Advisors for RTHK (seven years full term), formerly a Board member of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design (2008-2016), where she retired from the board, to lead DESIGN TRUST programmes in HK with its international partners.