We are also excited to share that a series of Design Trust grant projects and Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-park initiative will be featured in the upcoming “Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive” at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. As one of the eleven collateral events, “Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive” is curated by Design Trust Feature Grant recipients Ying Zhou and Fai Au, together with Sunnie Lau. A wide range of Design Trust grant research projects including “Hong Kong Estate Centres as Public Amenity” by Jeffery Cheng and Kris Provoost, “Photovoltaic Hybrids: Hong Kong’s Experiment on Climate-Responsive Architecture” by Emily Po and Quentin Yiu, “Social Condenser Extraordinaire: the Municipal Services Buildings of Hong Kong” by Ying and Fai, will be presented at the exhibition, with creative contribution from Design Trust grantees including Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Architecture Land Initiative, Su Chang, Natasza Minasiewicz and many more. A special display of the creative collaboration journey of Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-park initiative will also be presented at the Arsenale site.
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition, titled “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.”, curated by Carlo Ratti and organised by La Biennale di Venezia, will open to the public from Saturday May 10 to Sunday November 23, 2025, at the Giardini, the Arsenale and at the Forte Marghera.
Responding the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2025, curated by Carlo Ratti, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective”, a series of Panel Talks at the Hong Kong Exhibition “Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive” at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025, co-curated by Ying Zhou and Fai Au (Design Trust Feature Grant Recipient) and Sunnie S.Y. Lau, will highlight the collective intelligens of Hong Kong’s public infrastructures that represents Hong Kong city’s shifting paradigm.
Thursday 8 May 2025
13:00-14:30 Forum Panel: Hong Kong’s Public Architectures
14:45-16:15 Forum Panel: Tropicality and Development
16:30-18:00 Forum Panel: Archiving of Architecture and Urbanism
Friday 9 May 2025
15:30-17:00 Forum Panel Bamboo: Method not only Form