As a growing organisation, the Design Trust initiative by the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, needs your support to achieve its goal of creating meaningful platforms and advocating for the positive value of design. It seeks funding donations from individuals as well as corporations which will contribute to seeding our grant capital and provide funding for programmes and projects. Design Trust also works with corporates with shared passion in fostering positive impact of design in the community. Sponsorship opportunities are offered across our programmes and events, including flagship programme Design Trust Future Studio and our annual fundraising events. Donations made to Design Trust, via the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity, are tax deductible in Hong Kong.
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Join our Patron Community
Design Trust Patrons are invited to attend special events throughout the year, including a curated programme of invitation only events with visionary participants, exclusive dinners and gatherings around major events such as Art Basel Hong Kong, behind-the-scenes access to cultural institutions and trips to key institutions and events around the globe.
DESIGN TRUST LEADERS
Support a DESIGN TRUST SEED GRANT: Foster a culture of experimentation, testing and sharing. This grant is awarded to individuals seeking to kickstart a meaningful and intellectual project with social, educational, economical or environmental impact for communities. Seed grants may also be awarded for applicants who have a project in the pipeline that needs additional resources to maximise impact.
Selected past Seed Grants:
Watts and Crops: Agrivoltaic farms in rural villages by Emily Po and Quentin Yiu
Foreseen Property Agency by Wingshan Wong and Kachi Chan
Hong Kong Ghost Signs by Ben Marans and Billy Potts
Islands of Hong Kong by Tang Chi Chun and Leroy Yuen
Tile Tales: The Lives and After-Lives of Iconic Flooring by Fizza Qureshi, Willie Siau, and Stefan Luk
DESIGN TRUST INFLUENCERS
Support our DESIGN DIALOGUES, WORKSHOP SERIES & PUBLIC LECTURES: Explore critical contemporary topics of relevance that make positive change to the design of our environment through curated events with visionary participants, stakeholders, influencers and panel of advisors. Foster a community of exchange relating to the most advanced debates and trends in design.
Selected past events:
Design Trialogues Launch: Design Trust Decade Talks 2024 with inaugural Design Trialogues Keynote Speaker Rem Koolhaas
“Design Trust Sketchalogues” Event as Finissage of Design Trust Futures Festival 2025
Symposium “Tolerance and transformation” by Design Trust Feature Grant recipients Donn Holohan and Elspeth Lee at Asia Society Hong Kong
Book Preview Sharing of “The Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture” by Design Trust Grant recipient Raymond Fung
Design Trust Futures Studio Micro-parks Exhibition: From Smallness, Playfulness to Community Impact
Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 Community Tours in collaboration with Design Trust Impact Grant Open House Hong Kong
DESIGN TRUST FRIENDS
Support CRITICAL RESEARCH & INVESTIGATIONS: Actively accelerate creative design and research development of emerging design fields and meaningful projects. Support thought-provoking investigations in various design disciplines from graphics, media, wearable technologies and architecture to the built environment.
Selected past research studies and events:
Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 Public Workshops led by Design Trust Grantees Niko Leung, Leung Po Shan, Ingrid Pui Yee Chu and Billy Potts.
Tell me Concrete Stories by Design Trust Seed Grant recipients Enza Migliore and Mirna Zordan
Taobao Supply Chain by Design Trust Seed Grant recipient Ai Liu
Housing Re-Public: How private architects reinvented Hong Kong public housing between 1970/90s by Design Trust Seed Grant recipients Rico Samuel Diedering and Pedram Ghelichi
Support us
Donations made to Design Trust, via the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity, are tax deductible in Hong Kong.
To make a donation, please address all crossed cheques to “Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design Limited” and kindly mail/courier to:
DESIGN TRUST (an initiative of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design)
11A, Genesis,
33-35 Wong Chuk Hang Road,
Won Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Contact us
To join our Patron community or enquire about programme sponsorship opportunities, please email ask@designtrust.hk or call +852 2739 6889.