Last February 2020, Design Trust, a grant funding and community platform established by the non-profit registered charity Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, along with collaborators prepared a new community platform to reduce our social distance, with new collaborations and to inspire on the role of critical making within the home and the domestic landscape launched DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade in September 2020, a micro-initiative conceptualised by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder / Executive Director of Design Trust). Created with a desire to reconnect and to reduce our social distancing “distance” during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade fosters the idea that design can enact positive change in this challenging context. By inviting designers from both Hong Kong and beyond to channel their creativity and inspiration into unique homemade prototypes. “Escapism” by Soilworm Lai, STICKYLINE in collaboration with Vanissa Law is part of this initiative that addresses a pressing societal need, enabling designers and makers to build a dialogue with one another and our surrounding communities. With the preview launch “DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade”, as a prototype exhibition of 76 prototypes, created by 132 designers and collectives working together, this micro-initiative has expanded, showcasing the humbling power of the community to come together to support each other.
Ongoing and chosen based on how the objects embody Design Trust’s core values as well as how they responded to the curatorial brief, selected designs are now online available to continue our fundraising efforts during COVID-19 pandemic, all proceeds to support Design Trust’s ongoing research and grant programmes, we thank you for your interest and invite you to #GiveToGiveMore at https://shop.designtrust.hk/catalog.php
This summer of 2021, DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade initiative has generated its contemporary significance when re-imaging post-pandemic possibilities and invited to participate in the Exhibition “Uselessness as Usage: Operation Delta #4: Architects in Action” by Curator: Hou Hanru; and Associate Curators: Liang Jianhua, Zhou Zheng, the team from Guangdong Times Museum. “Escapism” refers to the severance of contact and communication.
As an active critique of the quarantine protocols enforced during COVID-19, Stickyline presents “Escapism” in collaboration with sound designer Vanissa Law. Using paper and geometry as the media to create this interactive sound device, it allows one to take a short break and to have true solitude.
This summer of 2021, DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade initiative has generated its contemporary significance when re-imaging post-pandemic possibilities and invited to participate in the Exhibition “Uselessness as Usage: Operation Delta #4: Architects in Action” by Curator: Hou Hanru; and Associate Curators: Liang Jianhua, Zhou Zheng, the team from Guangdong Times Museum, “Escapism” refers to the severance of contact and communication.
As an active critique of the quarantine protocols enforced during COVID-19, Stickyline presents ‘Escapism’ in collaboration with sound designer Vanissa Law. Using paper and geometry as the media to create this interactive sound device, it allows one to take a short break and to have true solitude.