Design Trust wishes you a Happy and Healthy New Year of 2024! Thank you for your continuous support, our work is only possible with the great support of our community.
We are pleased to kick-start the New Year with an exciting line-up of grantee events and Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks exhibition and community tour. Please Save the date and join us!
Upcoming: Design Trust Grants and Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks Events January 2024
4. 1. 2024
Design Trust Feature Grant recipient Naiyi Wang will curate Matters of Care exhibition at Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024 at Guangdong Museum of Arts from January 16th to May 12th 2024. Built upon her previous grant project Care Pavilion at London Design Biennale 2023, the upcoming exhibition Matters of Care, supported by Design Trust Feature Grant, continues to invite and gather interdisciplinary designers, architects, and scholars from around the globe to respond to “CARE”, using the Triennial as a testing ground to re-imagine the politics and ethics of care. Sited at Guangdong Museum of Arts in Guangzhou, the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024 is themed “The Warm-beings” with the curatorial team of chief curator Wang Shaoqiang along with co-curators Vicky Richardson, Li Degeng, Design Trust Futures Studio Mentor Stanley Wong, and Design Trust grantee Naiyi Wang.
Design Trust Feature Grant symposium on “Tolerance and Transformation” led by Donn Holohan will take place on January 20th (Saturday) from 9:00am to 6:00pm at Asia Society, Miller Theatre, Former Explosives Magazine, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong. Organised by Department of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, this symposium aims to foster an alternative dialogue on the future of architectural production, centred on tolerance and encompassing both its technical and more humane interpretations. It is a response to the increasingly specialised and technocratic nature of discussions of the future of the construction industry, and its apparent inability to address an unprecedented environmental crisis. Speakers include Summer Islam, Xu Tiantian, Paolo Tombesi ,Anne Holtrop, Shin Egashira, Groupwork, Philip Yuan, Mollie Claypool and Yusuke Obuchi. Please register here to join the symposium.
We are pleased to share an upcoming Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-park Hamilton Street Rest Garden Urban Tour developed in collaboration with former grantee Don Hong and Kongcept team. The tour will take place on January 13th (Saturday), 14th and 21st (Sunday) 2024 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm. Inspired by the sharing table culture and traditional local craftsmanship in the neighbourhood, the tour will start from Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-park Hamilton Street Rest Garden and highlight the local heritage shops and sites as well as new cultural space, revealing the coastal elements of Yau Ma Tei area and discovering the vibrant lifestyle and culture scenes of Hong Kong at different historical periods. Please register here to join the tour.
Design Trust Fridays exhibition “From Smallness, Playfulness to Community Impact: Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks Exhibition” will continue till March 2024 on designated Fridays by appointment at Design Trust Studio. Through models, drawings, material prototypes and photographs, the exhibition presents the complexity and challenges of more than five years of creative collaboration with public and private agencies as well as community partners. Visitors can also get the new micro-park book “Design Trust Futures Studio: From Smallness, Playfulness to Community Impact” at the exhibition.
Date&Time:
January 5th, 12th, 26th 2024, 3pm-6pm
February 2nd, 16th, 23th 2024, 3pm-6pm
March 1st, 8th, 15th 2024, 3pm-6pm Special curated event March 27th to 29th 2023 on the occasion of Art Basel 2024 to be announced.
Venue:
Design Trust Studio (1F, One South Lane, No.1 South Lane, Shek Tong Tsui)
Visit by appointment only via link here.