Design Trust Grantee Project Highlight | Inter-island Festival and Island Hopping from 26th to 28th March 2021

With Hong Kong’s spring season emerging, Inter-island Festival is launching soon from 26th to 28th March (Friday to Sunday). Design Trust Feature Grantee Yip Kai Chun and his team, Myriem Alnet and Chan Chun Kit, and initiators of ISLANDERS map-zine, have been unwaveringly curating and planning this upcoming 3-day weekend festival amongst the COVID-19 challenges last year. Public installations, walks, exhibition-pop-ups will connect Hong Kong’s rich island culture of Peng Chau, Cheung Chau and Mui Wo and Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island to highlight the distinct environment, communities and history of these islands to promote and protect their shared value and culture through design and cultural works. Selected works from the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade collection will be displayed at Islanders Space Hoi Sing on Peng Chau during the Festival. and available here: ePopUp.

[1] Inter-island Festival, 26th-28th March, 2021.
[2] Selected works from the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade collection will be available on Peng Chau during the Inter-island Festival.
[3] “Connecting Table” by architect Géraldine Borio and paper craft master Ha Wa Keung

As one of the collaborators, Natasza Minasiewicz, Design Trust Seed Grantee 2019, will conduct a reflective walk from Mui Wo to Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island on Saturday, 27th March. In 2020, Minasiewicz created an inspiring prototype, “FUTURE FOSSILS”, for DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade, which highlights the global problem of construction waste, as well as building methods and materials that are neither reusable nor degradable. During this 3-hour walk, one can follow Minasiewicz’s footsteps to enjoy and reflect on the beauty of the unique island life in Hong Kong.

“FUTURE FOSSILS” by Natasza Minasiewicz for DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade

“URBAN ENTITY, PIER” by Natasza Minasiewicz, Valerie Portefaix, Charlotte Lafont-Hugo

Online for our international community: Yip Kai Chun, Myriem Alnet and Chan Chun Kit, will also participate in our virtual online talk on 28th March as part of the online DESIGN TRUST x MPavilion Melbourne Design Week talks. Please click here for more details.

Selected works from the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade collection will be available at Islanders Space Hoi Sing on Peng Chau during the Inter-island Festival. Please also visit e-PopUp and continue to support Design Trust’s community mission.

Festival Map and Calendar of Event - Inter-island Festival
Date: Friday to Sunday, 26th - 28th March 2021
Locations: Peng Chau, Mui Wo, Chi Ma Wan and Cheung Chau islands.