Criticism Now: Developing Architecture and Design Criticism in the Pearl River Delta

  • The roundtable editorial panel of the design writing workshop series by Mimi Zeiger in May 2019. Image Courtesy of Mimi Zeiger.
  • The roundtable editorial panel of the design writing workshop series by Mimi Zeiger in May 2019. Image Courtesy of Mimi Zeiger.

Criticism Now is a two-part writing workshop that aims to develop new critical voices in architecture and design fields in Hong Kong, a place where more writing is needed to represent its burgeoning creativity. The project brought together local and international writers, editors, and curators on an in-depth discussion on the present and future of design criticism in the Greater Bay Area region. Its importance lies in its ability to train emerging voices to become leaders of a critical discourse in Hong Kong.

Criticism Now is a two-part writing workshop that aims to develop new critical voices in architecture and design fields in Hong Kong, a place where more writing is needed to represent its burgeoning creativity. The project brought together local and international writers, editors, and curators on an in-depth discussion on the present and future of design criticism in the Greater Bay Area region. Its importance lies in its ability to train emerging voices to
become leaders of a critical discourse in Hong Kong.

The Editorial Roundtable featured Greater Bay Area Advisors Suzy Annetta (Editor-in-Chief, Design Anthology), Cole Roskam (Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong) and Irene Lam (Founding Editor of Perspective and PR & Brand Marketing Consultant), and moderated by GBA Advisor Eric Schuldenfrei (Head of Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong).

Milestone

2018.Q3
Project awarded Design Trust Seed Grant

2019.05
Writing Workshop is held at The University of Hong Kong, followed by a visit to Studio 9
“Editorial Roundtable: Design Writing Workshop with Mimi Zieger” is held at Remex Centre, Wong Chuk Hang

2019 .07
Final essays by participants published in Zolima CityMag

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2018
Grantee: Mimi Zeiger
Organisation: Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic, editor, and curator. Her work is situated at the intersection architecture and media cultures. Currently, she is one of the curators of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

She has written for The New York Times, Domus, Architectural Review, Architect, where she is a contributing editor, and is an opinion columnist for Dezeen. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture.

She has curated, contributed to, and collaborated on projects that have been shown at the Art Institute Chicago, 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, the New Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, pinkcomma gallery, and the AA School. She co-curated Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, Shenzhen. She teaches in the Media Design Practices MFA program at Art Center College of Design and at SCI-Arc.