LETTER FROM MARISA YIU, Co-Founder/ Executive Director, DESIGN TRUST. Dear Friends of DESIGN TRUST, Greetings and I hope you are well, staying safe and strong through such challenging and uncertain times. As a registered charity now in its 13th year, the Design Trust initiative and its community is committed to continue our work, advance our […]

Partially supported by Design Trust’s Feature Grant, Countryside, the Future opened at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in February and has already garnered acclaim with coverage in The New York Times, The Guardian, Architectural Digest and Wallpaper*. Countryside, the Future is an exhibition that addresses urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect […]

Design Trust is proud to support Cao Fei’s exhibition “Blueprints” at London’s Serpentine Galleries, marking the Beijing-based artist and filmmaker’s first large-scale institutional solo exhibition in the UK. Partly supported by Design Trust’s Feature Grant programme, “Blueprints” brings together new and existing works in an immersive, site-specific installation, expanding the themes of automation, virtuality and […]

Applications are invited for the 2020 Design Trust / RCA Fellowship in Design Curation. Extensively supported by Design Trust, this is a six-month to one-year opportunity for research, learning and engagement at the Royal College of Art in London. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2020. Apply now. The Design Trust / RCA Fellowship […]

  Design Trust 2020 April Grant Application is now open. Share with us your ideas and proposals by 20th April 2020. Design Trust offers grants to designers, curators, collectives and non-profit organisations for project proposals that are relevant to the context and content of Hong Kong and the region. We would also like to congratulate […]

Design Trust is proud to share the innovative work by our Feature Grantees and Seed Grantees. Our featured grant stories this quarter includes ‘Dementialand’ by Feature Grantees Ire Tsui and Yanki Lee at Enable Foundation; ‘Social Network Factory’ by Feature Grantees James Shen, Zang Feng and He Zhe at People’s Architecture Office (PAO); ‘Ise Bay […]

Design Trust is grateful for the continued support and recognition we receive from the media. We are pleased to share press highlights on Design Trust in the past year, covering our grantees’ projects and career development, the community impact of the Design Trust Future Studio programme, and our creative collaboration with Archigram at the 2019 […]

  Applications are invited for the Design Trust / RCA Fellowship in Design Curation. Extensively supported by the Design Trust, this is a six-month to one-year opportunity for research, learning and engagement at the Royal College of Art. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2020, 11.59 pm GMT. Based at the Royal College of […]

Applications for next grant cycle will close on 20th Jan 2020, apply now.   Design Trust 2020 January Grant Application is now open. Share with us your ideas and proposals by 20th January 2020. Design Trust offers grants to designers, curators, collectives and non-profit organisations for project proposals that are relevant to the context and […]

  M+ and Design Trust are pleased to announce that Jason Lau and the team of Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta are the recipients of the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2020. The fellowship supports original research projects that investigate issues relating to design and architecture in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and […]