Now in its seventh year, the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2021 will support two separate fellowship projects. The first fellowship will support a Hong Kong–based researcher engaged in investigating topics related to design and/or architectural developments in Hong Kong and its vicinity. The second fellowship will support a researcher engaged in investigating topics […]

“DESIGN TRUST: CRITICALLY HOMEMADE” IS A MICRO-INITIATIVE CURATED BY MARISA YIU (CO-FOUNDER/ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DESIGN TRUST), AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO ALLEVIATE THE PANDEMIC’S IMPACT ON HONG KONG’S DESIGN COMMUNITY AND BEYOND, AND TO INSPIRE CREATIVE COLLABORATION IN A TIME OF PHYSICAL DISTANCING. MORE DETAILS

DESIGN TRUST Pop-up Home Studio Address: Unit S510, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong Open daily (from Friday, 22 May 2020): 10am – 8pm Pop-in and say hello to your future micro-parks. Following on the positive momentum of the Design Trust Futures Studio ‘PLAY IS FOR THEPEOPLE’, we are pleased to share the ongoing […]

  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 […]

ART POWER HK: Heritage Spaces, Contemporary Programs Date: 16.04.2020 (Thu) Venue: Zoom Meeting Thank you to ART POWER HK for organising the online panel “Heritage Spaces, Contemporary Programs” on 16th April 2020 . Design Trust Co-Founder / Executive Director Marisa Yiu joined Tobias Berger, Head of Art, Tai Kwun and Vanessa Cheung, Founder of The […]

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. As of 10 April 2020, the call for applications for the 2020 Fellowship has been postponed. […]

  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 […]