Profile: M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow Joseph Grima
焦點人物：M+ / Design Trust研究學人Joseph Grima

16. 12. 2016

M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow Joseph Grima is a noted Genoa-based architect, writer and researcher. He is well known for his work in the area of open source, collaborative, decentralized, and non-hierarchial design. Joseph’s research during his fellowship is focused on the “Open Design Archipelago”, where he examines the Shenzhen and Pearl River Delta region as a point of convergence between local conditions and global economies, tracing the genesis of these new design paradigms to the source.

During his five-month term, Joseph Grima has been examining the contemporary design ecosystems of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta— a place in which innovation happens on a 24/7 cycle, often outside of the normative institutional and commercial frameworks one expects to find it in. In a region where innovation and iteration occur at a speed inconceivable elsewhere, Grima is looking at how this ‘Open Design Archipelago’ offers a tangible expression of a new paradigm of design, where the acts of design and production frequently coincide and Western notions of intellectual property and copyright do not necessarily apply.

The M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship supports high-level research relating to design and architecture history and contemporary issues focused on Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, in relationship to the rest of the world. To see more about our past grant recipients, please click here.

M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow, Joseph Grima