Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 took place on Saturday September 14th 2024 at JC Cube of Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, in celebration of 10th anniversary of Design Trust and Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design since 2007, and past and future collaborations between DESIGN TRUST FUTURES Studio and Project on the City. Marisa Yiu (Co-founder, Lead Curator, Executive Director of Design Trust) welcomed former Design Trust Feature Grant recipient and Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Rem Koolhaas (Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD) as the Inaugural Design Trialogues Keynote Speaker to launch the new programme Design Trialogues, together with his renowned "Project on the City" team and Harvard Graduate School of Design back to the Greater Bay Area region.
DESIGN TRIALOGUES LAUNCH: DESIGN TRUST DECADE TALKS 2024
29. 11. 2024
Conceptualized by Marisa Yiu, Design Trialogues is a new conceptual framework exploring how stakeholders from public to private sector and NGOs can convene productively on cultural exchange and expansive knowledge sharing through multi-language open conversations. Curated by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director) and Zheng Zhou (Head of Programmes & Associate Curator), Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 featured the Inaugural Design Trialogues Panel with Rem Koolhaas (Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD) together with Marisa Yiu (Co-founder, Lead Curator, Executive Director of Design Trust) and Sarah M. Whiting (Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design), followed by a discussion with respondents Christine Loh, Doreen Heng Liu, Donald Choi and Stephan Petermann. Design Trust Decade Talks brought together former student members of Rem Koolhaas from 1990s: Kate Orff, Nancy Lin, Stephanie Smith, Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Yuyang Liu from the world-renowned 1996 Project on the City team and their seminal publication on the Pearl River Delta region, who are all now leading designers and scholars, to converse with Design Trust grant recipients architects, designers and scholars including Adonian Chan, Bob Pang & Charles Lai, Paul Tse & Evelyn Ting, Elaine Yan Ling Ng, Ashley Scott Kelly and Zhang Lei to collectively discuss and respond to the topical issues and envisioning the future role of design from Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area and internationally.
The Inaugural Design Trialogues Keynote Speaker Rem Koolhaas (Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD) shared the background of the Project on the City: Great Leap Forward in 1996, and also explained the reason behind the latest plan to revisit the Greater Bay Area and understand the regional development. He said: “We called ‘City of Exacerbated Difference’- maybe what we had seen was a situation where a single entity was not defined by a new coherence and overall plan, or overall identity, but on the contrary, based on competing identities and conflicts. Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, and Macao formed something new, but it was not too consistent adaptation of the elements circling between themselves. One of the really interesting reasons to go 30 years later and to see again, how this phenomenon necessarily developed is whether this is still a plausible model, or whether we are actually witnessing also in terms of the terminology from ‘Delta’ to ‘Bay’ more an effort at coherence.”
Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 was followed by a reunion moment of Design Trust grantees, fellows, mentees, supporters and partners at the Laundry Steps of Tai Kwun Hong Kong. The celebration reception was also joined by Harvard GSD alumni community to highlight the return of Rem Koolhaas’ Project on the City team. More than 350 audience and guests attended the Design Trust Decade Talks and the reception at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, celebrating the evolving Design Trust community network from Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area and internationally.
As part of the September month, Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 has announced the inaugural Open House Hong Kong 2024 proudly supported by Design Trust on the following weekends September 21st - 22nd and 28th -29th 2024. This new festival showcases the rich architectural heritage of the city of Hong Kong providing access and tours to around 50 sites and buildings across the city to advocate architectural heritage and urban culture of Hong Kong with a team of expanded Design Trust community from grant recipients to design scholars.
With four editions of flagship programme Design Trust Futures Studio from 2017 to 2022, a new regional three-year research initiative Design Trust Futures Studio 2024 focused on building a visionary creative atlas of the Greater Bay Area is officially announced at Design Trust Decade Talks. Curated by Lead Curator Marisa Yiu, with Associate Curator Zheng Zhou, Design Trust Futures Studio Greater Bay Area, will craft a visionary explorative creative atlas for the Greater Bay Area Region with an international context, encompassing creative mapping and physical-digital representation that examine cross-cultural production, cultural alternatives and exchange, envisioning the future of Greater Bay Area through cultural research and design experimentation.
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Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024
Date: September 14th 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: JC Cube, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
Language: English
Inaugural Design Trialogues Keynote Speaker: Rem Koolhaas
Speakers:
Sarah M. Whiting, Marisa Yiu, Bernard Chang, Kate Orff, Mihai Craciun, Nancy Lin,
Stephanie Smith, Yuyang Liu, Adonian Chan, Ashley Scott Kelly, Bob Pang & Charles Lai, Elaine Yan Ling Ng, Paul Tse & Evelyn Ting, Zhang Lei.
Special Respondents:
Christine Loh, Doreen Heng Liu, Donald Choi, Stephan Petermann.
Co-moderators:
Marisa Yiu, Zheng Zhou
About the Speakers
Rem Koolhaas is a Design Trust Feature Grant recipient and Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient. He is the Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA in "a novel about architecture". He co-heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture. Koolhaas directed the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, is a professor at Harvard University, and curated Countryside: The Future (2020), an exhibition about the non-urban areas around the globe that opened in February 2020 with the support of Design Trust, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Sarah Whiting has been Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2019. She is also a design principal and co-founder of WW Architecture, based in Cambridge, and served as the Dean of Rice University's School of Architecture from 2010 to 2019. Whiting obtained a interdisciplinary, self-directed Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale, a Master of Architecture from Princeton in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from MIT in 2001. Whiting’s research and writing is broadly interdisciplinary, with the built environment at its core. An expert in architectural theory and urbanism, she is particularly interested in modern and contemporary architecture’s imbricated relationship with politics, economics, and society, and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life.
Adonian Chan is a Hong Kong type designer, graphic designer, and musician. He co-founded Trilingua Design with Chris Tsui in 2010. In 2018, he published the book “A Study on Hong Kong Beiwei Calligraphy & Type Design”, which documented the eight years of research on Hong Kong Beiwei, as well as his type design “Hong Kong Beiwei Zansyu”. The book has won the “Grand Award” and the “Distinguished Publishing Awards” of “Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards 2019”. The type design has won “New York Type Directors Club’s” Typeface Design Award, Tokyo Type Director’s Club’s Excellent Work . Winner of “2019 DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award”. He is co-curator of Hong Kong largest design festival “deTour 2020” & “deTour 2021”. He is the curator of “deTour 2024”.
Bob Pang, seed grant of Design Trust, writer/columnist, member of DOCOMOMO HK and registered architect, graduated from the Master of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong and has extensive design experience in London, Vienna, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Bob was a project architect leading a team on various urban and architectural projects in Arata Isozaki Shanghai studio from 2011-2012. In 2015, he co-founded AaaM Architects. He is also a content contributor and columnist to various media, for instance, Hypebeast, Esquire, City Magazine and PMQ Design Extra writing about architecture in diverse topics.
Charles Lai is an architect (RIBA) and researcher in the history and conservation of Hong Kong and Asian modern architecture. He received his PhD degree in architectural history from the University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture, and diploma degree from the AA School of Architecture in London. He currently teaches at the PolyU and the HKU Space. Charles is also a member of the DOCOMOMO HK Chapter. He is currently a partner of the architectural studio aona and co-founder of a digital marketing and experience curatorial company Culture Lab. and focuses primarily on research and curatorial works. Charles also writes regularly for academic journals and columns. His research interests includes the history of modern architecture in East and Southeast Asia, the material culture and history of Shanghai plaster, as well as the conservation of historical built heritages.
Paul Tse is Co-founder and Design Director of New Office Works (NOW), and a registered architect in the State of New York. With over ten years of professional experience in London, Shanghai, New York and Beijing, Paul leads design and project management on architecture and interior projects. He received his Master of Architecture from RMIT University in Melbourne, and his Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP, where he was awarded the Honor Award for Excellence in Design. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and winner of the 2019 DFA Young Talent Design Award.
Evelyn Ting is Co-founder and Managing Director of New Office Works (NOW), and a registered architect in the State of Massachusetts. With experience in architecture and editorial work environments, Evelyn oversees both architecture projects and research initiatives and publications. She received her Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. She was a teaching assistant for MIT's Graduate Core Design Studio and was part of the curatorial team for the U.S pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Ashley Scott Kelly is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research and practice focus on scenario-building and filling knowledge gaps for sustainable development, especially in regions that lack adequate knowledge or transparency in development information. He applies design methods to land change and landscape ecology, with wide expertise on the manipulation of geospatial data for the study, advocacy, design, and delivery of projects in ecologically complex and contested landscapes. His recent works include design guidelines for tropical road infrastructure, wildlife corridor modeling, and coupling high-resolution remote sensing analysis with historical narratives for novel impact assessment. Ashley offers studio and lecture courses on landscape planning and development theory and actively engages civil society across Southeast Asia. He is the co-author of Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative (Springer Nature, 2021).
Elaine Yan Ling Ng is the founder of THE FABRICK LAB, brings together textiles, electronics, biomimicry, interiors and installations. Elaine is a British Chinese visionary multi-media creative and a graduate of Central Saint Martins in London where she earned her MA Design in Textile Futures with distinction. Elaine is a TED fellow and is globally recognized, having worked with international design companies such as Nissan Design Europe and Nokia Design Beijing with multiple design awards. In 2015, Elaine became the recipient of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award. As a grant recipient of Hong Kong Design Trust, her feature project includes creating an on-going textile experimentation, a synergy between traditional craft and modern understanding of material.
Zhang Lei is the founder and Design Director of PINWU Design Studio & Róng Design Library Curator of Róng Design Exhibition. He Led the PINWU design team using contemporary design language to redefine traditional materials and handicrafts. Co-founded the non-profit organization róng design library with Christoph and Jovana, led systematic study of the material system of traditional Chinese handicrafts, and promoted contemporary design applying traditional materials.
Bernard Chang founded Atelier Bernard Chang recently after serving as Principal at KPF from 2007 to 2024. With over 25 years of global architectural experience, he has worked on diverse building types, including residential, office, retail, hospitality, institutional, infrastructure, and urban design. Bernard was the Managing Principal for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Nansha Campus, a leading research institution in Guangzhou, and served as Project Director for Victoria Dockside, a prominent commercial mixed-use development in Hong Kong. Before leaving KPF, he led a supertall project in Mongkok, a community-driven transit-oriented development in Kowloon. Additionally, Bernard has held the position of Vice President of the AIA Hong Kong Chapter.
Yuyang Liu is the founding principal of his Shanghai-based Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects (ALYA) and the D. Kenneth Sargent Visiting Critic at Syracuse University in New York He is a native of Taiwan and a naturalized Chinese-American. Characterized by the emphasis on craft and the care for community, Liu’s designs reflect a deep sensitivity to context and keen interests in landscape, culture, and infrastructure. A gold medal recipient of the 2019 ArcASIA Award, Liu has published widely and exhibited at the Venice Biennale. Liu researched with Professor Rem Koolhaas as a graduate student of the Harvard Project on the City and co-authored the “Great Leap Forward”. Published in 2001, the book is considered a pioneering work on the urbanization of China’s Pearl River Delta. Liu received his M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1997 and B.A. from UC San Diego in 1992. He now lives with his wife and four children in California and commutes between US and China.
Nancy Lin offers 27 years of experience in urban design, architecture, landscape design, construction administration and project management for projects involving collaborations among multi-disciplinary and international teams. As the Director of Operations, Nancy supports the Chief Executive of Global Buildings + Places Business Line at AECOM to oversee strategic initiatives and business operations. She also leads technical excellence with emphasis on innovation and design solutions that adopt digital technologies. Nancy has served as a juror for Taipei International Design Award (2018/2019), the 2020 Program X Site Competition, and Golden Pin Concept Design Award 2022-2024 in Taiwan. Prior to joining AECOM, Nancy led her own architectural practice in Taiwan and taught for 12 years at Tamkang University, Tunghai University, MinChuan University and National Chiao Tung University. Nancy received her Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University in the US.
Stephanie Smith is an urban planning and management consultant specializing in regional-scale projects in the US Desert Southwest. She is currently representing a municipal County along the Mexican border as it negotiates a profit-sharing agreement with a large industrial concern which has made a US$2.16 billion investment in the area. She holds a Master of Science in Urban Planning degree from University of Arizona, and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Mihai Craciun is an enterprising architect with more than 30 years of professional experience. He is the Co-Founder and Design Director of Kuala Lumpur Design Studio (KLPDS), a leading multidisciplinary firm specializing in large-scale, mixed-use projects across Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Graduated with Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and with a focus on urbanization, Mihai integrates contemporary international practices with cutting-edge construction technologies, while addressing the unique climate, cultural, and economic contexts of each site. Mihai’s work at KLPDS includes the prestigious Pavilion Damansara Heights, a branded retail, residential and office development in Kuala Lumpur.
Kate Orff is an American landscape architect and the founder of SCAPE, an urban design & landscape architecture practice with offices in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. She is also a Professor at Columbia University with a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Climate School. She was the first landscape architect to be named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.