#GIVETOGIVEMORE Winter Showcase and e-POPUP online shop is launched

21. 12. 2020

Support Design Trust’s community mission! Please visit Design Trust’s e-PopUp and pick your holiday season designer gifts now.

DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade, a micro-initiative conceptualised by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder / Executive Director of Design Trust) was created with a desire to reconnect and to reduce our social distance during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Through creative collaborations, the initiative 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 that address pressing societal need, the initiative enabled designers and makers to build a dialogue with one another and our surrounding communities. Building on the wide acclaim of its initial Prototype Exhibition which presented 76 homemade prototypes, DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade broadens its reach and impact with the upcoming Winter Showcase, its first-ever Citywide Exhibition that brings thoughtful and innovative design to the wider community with an expansive reach across 18 locations in 8 districts throughout Hong Kong and its outer islands. With the support of the Design Trust Champions and Collaborators, the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Winter Showcase’s selected designs are available for purchase, with all proceeds going back to support Design Trust’s ongoing research, grant giving, and community initiatives. The Winter Showcase also marks the launch of the inaugural first edition Design Trust Milestone Portfolio, providing an in-depth review of the research projects Design Trust has supported since its establishment in 2014.

Visit the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade e-PopUp to choose from the selected designs which reflects the creativity, thoughtfulness, ingenuity and diversity of our designer community; these gifts surprise, delight and impress. With all proceeds going towards supporting Design Trust’s ongoing research and grant programmes to foster and nurture emerging designers in Hong Kong and the region, these gifts make giving even more rewarding.
Support Design Trust’s community mission! Please visit Design Trust’s e-PopUp and pick your holiday season designer gifts now!

[1] Hong Kong Brick by Florian Wegenast and Christine Lew, available exclusively at kapok
[2] Dancing with Nature by UUendy Lau, available exclusively at COLOURLIVING
[3] Marble Textured Soap by Deborah Lam, Une Szeto and Kay Chan, Good Day Studio, available exclusively at WOMANBOSS
[4] What Goes Down Must Come Up by Alan Chan, available exclusively at Andrew Kayla
[5] Alright by Jason Chan, available exclusively at Design Trust e-PopUp
[6] When I See Mountains, They Are Mountains/ Limited Edition prints by Stanley Wong, anothermountainman, available exclusively at Design Trust e-PopUp
[7] HOXY by Christopher Choi with Keith Hui, in collaboration with Esther Fung and Ian Tam, ioii Studio, available exclusively at Design Trust e-PopUp
[8] Douglas Young x Savinee Buranasilapin Signed Box Set of 7 Mask, available exclusively at Design Trust e-PopUp

DESIGN TRUST: CRITICALLY HOMEMADE ACROSS 18 LOCATIONS IN 8 DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT HONG KONG IN CITY- AND ISLAND-WIDE EXHIBITION

Following the initial DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade prototype exhibition in September, the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Winter Showcase presents 39 selected designs to the broader community in a dynamic and diverse city- and island-wide exhibition across 18 locations in 8 districts as well as online - providing the public with different opportunities and options to experience the initiative from now until early 2021.In addition to being featured at individual Design Trust Champions throughout the city, the Citywide Exhibition features a number of special activations that bring the Winter Showcase across different iterations to different parts of the city.

DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Citywide Activations

NOVEMBER 2020
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Citywide Exhibition Launch
designtrust.hk/criticallyhomemade

11 NOV–6 DEC 2020
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Select Showcase
Location : Gold Ball (2F), K11 MUSEA, Tsim Sha Tsui
Date: Wednesday 11 November - Sunday 6 December 2020
Time : 12-8pm, daily

18 NOV 2020 ONWARDS
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Select Designs available at:
kapok
COLOURLIVING
WOMANBOSS
shop.designtrust.hk

25-27 NOV 2020
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Collectors Showcase
Location : THE SHOPHOUSE, 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang
Date : Wednesday 25 November - Friday 27 November 2020

DEC 2020 ONWARDS
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Select Designs available at:
Miss Lee
Between
Andrew Kayla
G.O.D. (Goods of Desire)

2 DEC 2020 ONWARDS [POSTPONED – soft opening Sat 12 Dec]
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Select Designs and Activations at WOMANBOSS
Location : 82 Ap Liu Street, Sham Shui Po
Date : Wednesday 2 December 2020* – Opening Reception
Wednesday 9 December 2020* – Panel Discussion
*In view of the latest developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, these events are currently postponed. For more details please visit WOMANBOSS website: https://iamwomanboss.com

3 DEC 2020 [VIRTUALLY HELD]
DESIGN TRUST Milestone Book Launch Celebration at K11 MUSEA
Location: Gold Ball (2F), K11 MUSEA, Tsim Sha Tsui
Date: Thursday 3 December 2020
Time: 7-9pm

4–6 DEC 2020 [POSTPONED – TBC dates]
DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade Pop-up at Inter-island Festival
Location : Peng Chau, Mui Wo, Chi Ma Wan, Cheung Chau - Outer Islands
Date : Friday 4 December - Sunday 6 December 2020*
*In view of the latest developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, these events are currently postponed. For more details please visit Inter-island Festival website.

5 DEC 2020
Business of Design Week 2020 Culture & the City Panel: DESIGN TRUST Critically Homemade
Date: Saturday 5 December 2020
Time : 1-2pm
Virtual panel available online here.

FEB 2021
“DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade” Future Showcase
Chinese New Year Launches and Future Showcase announcements in Melbourne, Shanghai and other locations, more details to come.