Upcoming | Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024

3. 9. 2024

Design Trust, an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, announces Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 will be held on Saturday September 14th 2024 at JC Cube of Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, in celebration of 10th anniversary of Design Trust and Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design since 2007. Design Trust is honoured to welcome Design Trust Feature Grant recipient and Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Rem Koolhaas (Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD) as the Inaugural Design Trialogues Keynote Speaker to launch this new programme Design Trialogues conceptualized by Marisa Yiu (Co-founder, Lead Curator, Executive Director of Design Trust), to unpack the urgent issues in the Greater Bay Area while envisioning the future of regional design ecology and the role of design research can positively impact communities.

Design Trialogues: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 scheduled for Saturday September 14th 2024.

The establishment of Design Trust in 2014 has positively impacted the design community in support to architects, scholars, design researchers and practitioners with grants, fellowships and public programmes in Hong Kong, Greater Bay Area and internationally. Design Trust was established by Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity in Hong Kong since 2007, as a grant funding and community platform continuing to grow and has nurtured and supported over 590 grantees, mentees and collaborative teams over the last decade. Highlighted grant projects include “Countryside, The Future” from AMO team led by Rem Koolhaas at the Guggenheim Museum in 2019, “Cao Fei: Blueprints Exhibition” at the Serpentine Gallery in 2020, and “Matters of Care” exhibition recently curated by grantee Naiyi Wang at the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial in 2024.

 

Conceptualized by Marisa Yiu, Design Trialogues is a new conceptual framework exploring how stakeholders from public to private sector and NGOs can convene productively on cultural exchange and expansive knowledge sharing through multi-language open conversations. Curated by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director) and Zheng Zhou (Associate Curator & Designer), Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 features the Inaugural Design Trialogues Panel with Rem Koolhaas (Founder of OMA & Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD) together with Marisa Yiu (Co-founder, Lead Curator, Executive Director of Design Trust) and Sarah M. Whiting (Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and former student members of Rem Koolhaas from 1990s: Qingyun Ma, Kate Orff, Nancy Lin, Stephanie Smith, Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Yuyang Liu from the world-renowned 1996 Project on the City team and their seminal publication on the Pearl River Delta region, who are all now leading designers and scholars will be present in Hong Kong. Design Trust feature grant recipients will also share their past decade of works to collectively respond to the urgent, and critical issues around the future role of design from Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area with an international context.

 

Marisa Yiu (Co-founder, Lead Curator, Executive Director of Design Trust) says: “ The year of 2024 is a special moment where we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Design Trust, an initiative of Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design since 2007, while envisioning the next decade for our organisation and its role for Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area within an international context. What we have achieved today, is truly a collective testament to our community to gather and support the ongoing inspirational research and granting projects that connect various generations and impact our city and region with optimism, energy and vibrancy to shape our cultural community. We remain grateful to our supporters and partners for keeping collaborations alive; yet, remain with deepened awareness on to build resilience of our community, how creativity, curiosity and critical research and design, positively shape our future.”

 

Yiu continues: “The past decade of Design Trust has witnessed and proven the critical yet playful essence of design’s role in contemporary culture from Design Trust Futures Studio to the growth of nurturing skillsets of emerging designers and scholars as well as design processes with experimental ethos. Looking forward, we are excited to launch Design Trust Futures Studio Greater Bay Area programme “Nature is Nurture is Nature” crafting a visionary and explorative creative atlas for the Greater Bay Area Region with an international context while envisioning the future of Greater Bay Area through cultural research and design experimentation. On the occasion of 10th anniversary of Design Trust, the new talks series Design Trialogues launched as Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 will further advocate the positive role of design from multiple perspectives with our regional and international community.”

 

As part of the September month, Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 will also announce the inaugural Open House Hong Kong 2024 proudly supported by Design Trust on the following weekends September 21st - 22nd and 28th -29th 2024. This new festival showcases the rich architectural heritage of the city of Hong Kong providing access and tours to around 50 sites and buildings across the city to advocate architectural heritage and urban culture of Hong Kong with a team of expanded Design Trust community from grant recipients to design scholars.

 

With four editions of flagship programme Design Trust Futures Studio from 2017 to 2022, a new regional three-year research initiative Design Trust Futures Studio 2024 focused on building a visionary creative atlas of the Greater Bay Area will be officially announced at Design Trust Decade Talks. Curated by Lead Curator Marisa Yiu, with Associate Curator Zheng Zhou, Design Trust Futures Studio Greater Bay Area, will craft a visionary explorative creative atlas for the Greater Bay Area Region with an international context, encompassing creative mapping and physical-digital representation that examine cross-cultural production, cultural alternatives and exchange, envisioning the future of Greater Bay Area through cultural research and design experimentation.

 

 

The event registration is now full. You may sign up on the waiting list here, and if any seats can be released, you will be notified by 12noon on Thursday September 12th 2024. Thank you.