Design Trust celebrates Dr. Ho as a pioneer of socially-driven architecture and design. As part of Design Trust’s mission to advocate for the positive value of the processes of design, we are pleased to name the late Dr. Tao Ho as our inaugural honouree of the Design Trust Legacy Award at this year’s Design […]

    Design Trust collaborated with legendary architectural studio Archigram to recreate their signature portable metropolis for Design Trust Gala 2019. Commissioned exclusively for Design Trust, the new work of art and environment, themed ‘The Archigram City’, was unveiled at Kerry Hotel, a subsidiary of The Shangri-La Group in Hong Kong who is our Venue […]

As we approach 2020, the Design Trust team is reflecting on this year’s incredible journey, community projects, exhibition to grantees new projects. Design Trust continues to contribute to areas of creative research, design and development of meaningful projects through our grants, public programmes and fellowships in Hong Kong, the region and internationally. This year we […]

As a dynamic platform, Design Trust provides responsive funding to develop design expertise, build research initiatives and content related to Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area region and internationally. Fostering a culture of experimentation, testing and sharing, Design Trust Grant Recipients encompass a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to graphics, media, wearables, […]

Design Trust fosters cross-disciplinary projects and engages with the public through a series of public lectures, design installations, and interactive symposiums working with our grant recipients and partners. Our upcoming 2020 programme highlights include Design Trust Feature Grant Recipient OMA Stedebouw and the Guggenheim Museum’s ‘Countryside, The Future’ Exhibition in New York; M+ / Design […]

  2019 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows — Oliver Elser and Yasmin Tri Aryani — will present the results of their research, illustrating the diversity of topics supported by the fellowship programme. Oliver Elser will look into Brutalist architecture in Hong Kong. Through juxtaposing buildings in Hong Kong with those in Mainland China and […]

Since the founding of Design Trust in 2014, we have contributed to areas of creative research, design and development of meaningful projects, grants, public programmes and fellowships, and have increased the number of grants and fellowships supporting over 100 individuals and collectives. Channeling creative energies across Hong Kong and internationally, we have grantees from Hong […]

On Tuesday 10th December 2019,our recent Design Trust Design Dialogue brought together Stanley Wong (Founder/ Creative Director, 84000 communications limited; DTFS 2018 Mentor), Michelle Chu (Design Director, Asia Tai Ping; DTFS 2019 Programme Collaborator), and moderator Marisa Yiu (Co-founder/ Executive Director, Design Trust) to discuss on the theme ‘Rethinking Archives, Designers with a conscience’, highlighting the […]

Design Trust, an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, announces collaboration with renowned architectural collective Archigram to create a virtual environment for this year’s annual charity event. Now in its 12th year, the event supports the growth of the Design Trust initiatives and programmes that advocate for the positive values design brings to […]

Design Trust, an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design announce a collaboration with renowned architectural collective Archigram to create a virtual environment for this year’s annual Design Trust charity event that supports the growth of the initiatives and programmes by the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design (HKAoD), now in its 12th year. The […]