Success can bring happiness, but so can failure! Participants are invited to load the carts with pebbles of different weights and compete on the racetrack. The setup of the racetrack will only allow carts of a specific weight to pass through -- the wrong weight will cause the cart to either fly out of the track or crash -- the success rate is only 0.1%! If we are willing to try, failing spectacularly can still be a lot of fun.

Co-Creator

KaCaMa Design Lab

Facebook : @KaCaMaDesignLab
Instagram : @kacama_design_lab
Website : http://kacama.hk

KaCaMa Design Lab excels in sustainable design and the exploration of new design strategies that foster positive community and environmental values. Their scope of service includes product and service design, brand building, event curation and projects that enable cultural development. In recent years, the Lab established a few community cooperation programmes and projects for the enhancement of local public space to promote meaningful interactions between diversified communities and to address environmental issues.

Co-Creator

thecaveworkshop

Facebook : @thecaveworkshop
Instagram : @thecaveworkshop
Website : http://www.thecaveworkshop.com

Established in 2010 in the Kwun Tong industrial district, thecaveworkshop is a new and upcoming team of design creatives based in Hong Kong.

Unlike other commercial practices, the seven team members came from different design disciplines including graphic design, interior design and fashion design. Inspired by Chinese history and culture, their projects are multi-disciplinary creations that fully utilise different areas of design to problem-solve.

The team started out with a handmade experimental reclaimed wood furniture collection, it then branched out to larger art installations, woodwork workshops, as well as passionately contributing creative designs for the community and public spaces.

Ready to step into the shoes of Othello from Shakespeare’s classic play?

Based on the “trial” and “error” in the literary masterpiece, the project team designed an enclosed booth for visitors to experience Othello’s internal struggle to determine if Desdemona has betrayed him. Testimonies from four main characters in the play will be presented with sound and music that vary with the visitors’ every move. Ay, a final judgment must be made in this literature soundscape!

Co-Creator

IMS (Imaginary Machete Swinger)

Website : http://imaginarymacheteswinger.com/

IMS is a recently formed small network of researchers, artists, and students. Its aim is to establish a co-learning/co-artistry environment through integration and collaboration.

Lumieres Hong Kong celebrates its 1st year anniversary by co-presenting The Strange Tenants, an original creation by Stéphane Masson, who was part of the artistic lineup of the 1st edition of Lumieres Hong Kong. Stéphane Masson returns this time to introduce several strange tenants to PMQ. Giant fish, exotic animals and perhaps the person next to you will appear in various window boxes facing the Courtyard after 6pm during deTour.

This surreal and mischievous distribution of moving images will bring a breath of poetry and smiles to our overcrowded city.

This installation will light up after 6 pm each day during deTour.

Co-Creator

Stéphane Masson

Website : http://stephanemasson.fr/

Stéphane Masson is a videographer whose creativity is expressed by hijacking mundane objects with moving images. Answering to an urge to inject a bit of craziness and magic in our everyday lives, he poetically transforms our environment with surprising artworks.

Co-Presenter

A piece by the renowned Italian artist Pino Castagna, Canneto is bushes of bamboo made of Murano glass. Bamboo, in many oriental cultures, symbolises purity and virtue. The incomparable straightness of the bamboo, the perfection of its impetus towards the sky, and the knots between the hollow parts are laden with meanings. The sound of bamboo leaves moving in the wind, to certain masters, is associated with enlightenment. Italian craftsmanship embodying Chinese spirit may remind us of Marco Polo’s travel to China hundreds of years ago.

An accredited installation of BODW City Programme.

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Pino Castagna

Pino Castagna was born in Castelgomberto, in the province of Vicenza, Italia, in 1932.

He completed his academic studies in Verona and Venice. Over the years, he acquired and improved the various skills and his knowledge of working with materials like ceramic, glass, marble, wood, bronze, aluminium, cast iron, cement and steel. His artistic research, in fact, is characterized by his experimentation in the use of the medium, and by continually going beyond the extreme limits of the resistance of the materials. He creates imposing works that are often placed in spectacular natural spaces, creating a continual dialogue-exchange with the surrounding space.

Castagna’s models are Brancusi, Derain, Modigliani, Wotruba and Guerrini for their anti-classicism. The artist’s sculptures are obvious transpositions of a subjective idea completely in tune with the environment in which they are placed.

The artist’s most important one-man shows have found, moreover, their ideal, open-air locations in the main historical centres of cities in Italy and Europe. With his retrospective at Trento’s Palazzo delle Albere and the survey exhibition in the rooms of Mantova’s Palazzo Té in 1985, Castagna’s importance in the international art world was recognized. His success was confirmed the following year with his participation in the 42nd Venice Biennial, with the memorable cast iron installation of Sails (1981) on the bank of the basin of San Marco.

The architectonic and environmental ambition of Castagna’s sculptures is revealed in a series of urban-scale initiatives including Cascade (1991-1992), a work placed in the countryside along a French motorway near Lyons; the open-air church in the courtyard in front of the Parish Church of Zermeghedo (1994); Monadi, a steel and cement sculpture intended for the Villa Glori sculpture park in Rome; the glass Reed, acquired by the Chamber of Deputies, now part of Montecitorio’s contemporary art collection (2001); the Venetian Block, a sculpture made of Murano glass and steel, about 10 meters tall that rises in the Center of the Rotonda Maria Rosa Molas in Castellón de la Plana, Spain (2002).

Bernard Rudofsky’s intriguing book Now I Lay Me Down to Eat illustrates alternative ways of living in the past and inspires us to imagine a new way of living.

The Unknown Machine encourages interactions amongst people, and interactions with nature with its design and structure. The organic core inside the cubic lattice frame has protruding “arms” that are peering holes. Visitors are invited to peep into the holes, observe each other through reflected images: stay, explore and imagine. Drawing people together is the closest way to share, transfer, search and understand the different truths (the unknown) of other individuals.

Co-Creator

Chan Pak Chuen

Website : http://www.chanpakchuen.com/

Chan Pak Chuen was born in 1990 and completed Master of Architecture in 2016 and a bachelor degree in Architectural Studies in 2013 at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was awarded the Wharf ArchDesign Trust Scholarship in 2016 and the Cliftons Art Prize in 2012.

Chan’s creative works reflect on the relationship between space and human in the big data era, and criticise the crux of the contemporary society.

Co-Creator

Poon Tsz Long, Sunny

Instagram : @yellowoyo

Graduate of CUHK Master of Architecture in 2016, Poon is working as an architectural and interior designer. He is passionate about metal arts, creative devices and kayaking.

Co-Creator

Fong Ming Him, Arthur

Arthur Fong has a Master in Architecture; he is interested in studying architecture as an organic extension of the human body.

Ding Dong is an experiment to transform a musical instrument into a spatial structure. It subverts the experience of listening by situating the audience within the instrument to become part of the instrument.

A set of swing boards amongst large wind chime tubes allows participants to slow down and enjoy the movement of swinging, surrounded by the glow and tinkling of the chimes and be engaged in a whole new musical experience.

Co-Creator

Trilingua Design

Instagram : @trilingua.hk
Website : http://trilingua.hk/

Trilingua Design was established in 2010 by Adonian Chan and Chris Tsui. Their design service includes publication design, branding, visual identity, lettering, website design and exhibition design. Clients include West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Greenpeace, Ad-lib, etc. Trilingua also zealously works for local art groups, including Hong Kong Art Centre, Soundpocket, Ying E Chi, Hong Kong House of Literature, etc.

Trilingua is now researching and developing a typeface called “Hong Kong BeiWei Kaishu”. The studio has also been creating type design related art works.

Co-Creator

Hanc Design

Website : http://hancdesign.com/

Hanc Design was founded in 2014 by Angus Ngai, a Registered Architect (HKIA) in Hong Kong. He is a multi-disciplinary designer with over 10 years of experience in designing and producing hardwood furniture. He is also a Part-time Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Angus aims to realise and infuse Chinese traditional aesthetics into the modern living environment in Hong Kong and China.

Co-Creator

WEEWUNGWUNG

Facebook : @weewungwunghk
Website : https://weewungwung.com/

Founded in 2015, WEEWUNGWUNG is a digital design studio based in Hong Kong focusing on web and interactive experiences.

Working closely with renowned graphic designers, artists, curators, and corporates, WEEWUNGWUNG continues to promote creative modern browsing experiences to create a lively presence for brands and events on the world wide web.

Connecting technology and imagination, White Rabbits, Let’s Play is a sound-reactive projection mapping installation.

As the designer leaves to take a breather, white rabbits hop out of the candy wrappers one by one to wander curiously around the workstation, leaving their footprints on the designer’s belongings. Look, the sneaky rabbits are gathering around the snack and taking a nibble of it!

Visitors are invited to surround the workstation and interact with these naughty creatures. But remember, any loud sound, like a clap or a shout, will send them scurrying back to their packaging.

Co-Creator

Matthew Sia

Instagram : @siayk
Website : http://matthewsia.com/

“Always be curious. To understand something is not just about being able to define or describe the subject. Instead, taking something that I already know and making it unknown thrills me. It refreshes and deepens my understanding of the subject.”

Matthew Sia is a graphic and interactive designer based in Singapore. He recently graduated from the London College of Communication and holds a BA in Graphic and Media Design (Design for Interaction and Moving Image).

Experiential futures are an immersive way to enable people to share in a glimpse of the future of cities and urban environments. The exhibition space combines the display of artefacts and public participatory design activities to stimulate conversation and the development of material outcomes related to urban futures in Hong Kong.

The exhibition comprises the works completed by Honours students in Interior Architecture at the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Themed “Melbourne 02068: designing our futures”, the exhibits are students’ imagination of what it might be like to live in Melbourne 50 years from now and their exploration of how to influence change.

The participatory design activities will produce further future-oriented artefacts for “Hong Kong 02068”— a project to be participated by postgraduate students from the same school as part of their multi-disciplinary design study tour in Hong Kong.

Co-Creator

Dr. Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek (Program and Workshop Co-Lead)

Instagram : @swinburne_design

Dr Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek is a digital media artist, designer and educator. Samantha's research seeks to understand and advance the role place-based design education plays in social well-being, community belonging and economic development. As an educator, Samantha believes that by engaging design students in meaningful collaboration with social, political and environmental issues they learn to become empathetic creative practitioners and design thinkers aware of the inherent power of visual communication to transform the world in which we live. In 2011 and 2015 she was the recipient of the highly prestigious Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and Community Engagement.

Co-Creator

Bridgette Engeler (Program and Workshop Co-Lead)

Bridgette Engeler is a pracademic working across strategic design, innovation and foresight. A futurist and strategic designer, she is Course Director for the Master of Design program at Swinburne University, and she regularly collaborates with industry and organisations on futures-oriented projects and programs. Her work spans across strategic and transformative design, speculative design, experiential and critical futures, and transition design. Bridgette’s research interest is the nexus created between strategic design and strategic foresight, and emergent opportunities intersecting design, ecosystems, people and technology.

As a street artist, SP38 likes working outdoors and in public so that his works are accessible to all.

Creating in public brings an additional dimension to the artwork; viewers’ comments, questions and their proximity have an alchemic power over the final piece of work.

With live painting, the idea that a painting can be an ephemeral and evolving object is more evident. The process becomes a research, as well as a challenge, where tests are permanent, defects are allowed, and errors are visible, to metaphorically align with the theme “Trial and Error”.

Co-Creator

SP38

Instagram : @sp.38
Website : http://www.sp38.com

Sylvain Perier, professionally known as SP 38, is a French painter, street artist, billsticker and performer. He was born in 1960 in Coutances, Normandy of France. First classified as belonging to the Figuration libre artistic movement, this international figure of street art has produced artistic works in many countries.

This summer Craig Au-Yeung went to Jingdezhen, the “porcelain capital” of China. He lived the life of an artisan and worked on 49 blue and white large porcelain plates.

He painted on these 49 plates bearded men with eyes half closed and mouth opened as if they were speaking. These caricatures represent the artist’s reflection on the world, art and the self. The back of the plates are the artist’s spontaneous wild drawings.

He named this porcelain plate series Starters, a play on the Chinese characters “head” and “plate” which together mean starter.

Co-Creator

Au-Yeung Ying Chai Craig

Born in Hong Kong, Au-Yeung Ying Chai Craig is a food curator, a cartoonist, and a food, travel and lifestyle writer.

Au-Yeung founded Taste Library in Hong Kong in 2014, and organised “Craig’s Half Full Kitchen” in Beijing in 2015. In 2018 he established the cultural space Qizai in Xian, to enrich the culinary art and food aesthetic scene with diversified content.

Au-Yeung was the ambassador for Slow Food Great China in 2017.

Floating Journey is inspired by suminagashi, the traditional Japanese art of water marbling that embodies the spirit of “living in the moment”. Floating pigments are swirled into kaleidoscopic patterns using pointed tools. The unpredictability of the creative process is not dissimilar to life. Participants are nonetheless reminded that experimentation can bring about beautiful surprises.

The Japanese zen garden-inspired exhibition includes an experimentation zone and an experience zone in which visitors can go on a meditative creative journey and leave with a souvenir toy boat.

Co-Creator

Dyelicious

Facebook : @DyeliciousHouse
Instagram : @dyelicioushouse
Website : http://dyelicious.hk

Using leftover food as key ingredient for their dye, Dyelicious’ products were hailed as having the ‘world’s most beautiful colors’ at the 2015 Milan World Expo. At the studio, one can find colors belonging to Hong Kong, to food and to each of us.

Dyelicious has always strived to give leftover food a starring role, to let people find the moving and happy aspects of life as well as experience the art of living.

The team hopes that with the infusion of modern technology, the traditional art of dyeing can find new expressions. With its persistence in environmental protection and innovation, Dyelicious is named the ‘Solution of Future Food for Climate Change’ at the 2018 Rome Make Faire.

Similar to the life of a tree, personal growth comes from overcoming obstacles and learning from mistakes. These experiences become the foundation of a fruitful future.

This installation is a collection of memories in the shape of a tree. Through the nostalgic items suspended from the tree, visitors can recall their own “Trial and Error” moments with fondness.

Co-Creator

Mishtar

Facebook : @MishtarLifeStyle
Instagram : @mishtarlifestyle

Mishtar was established in 2010 by Mike Hung and Ishtar Yu, specialising in handmade ethnic inspired designs and products.

Mishtar is a Hebrew word which means “the power and the rule”. The team believes that creating within specific rules and style can still lead to infinite possibilities. They hope that through their work, people can pay more attention to the fun elements in life, and thereby impacting other lives.

The ethnic symbols and natural materials incorporated in Mishtar’s creations are the ways that the team passes on the blessing and respect for nature associated with the dreamcatchers.

Our city’s development and redevelopment are similar to a slow sculpturing process, a constant form-finding exercise in search of its ideal composition. Inspired by local writer Xixi’s concrete poem, the artist uses algorithmic 3D modeling tools to transform the Hong Kong cityscape into a spatial poem.

The installation is an abstraction of past to future urbanization through a sequence of words, music, lighting and poetry. A sea of floating words morphs into different landscapes and cityscapes. As the shape of our “future city” emerges, what’s next?

Co-Creator

Bong Yeung (littleurbanmountain)

Website : http://littleurbanmountain.hk

Born in Hong Kong, Bong Yeung studied Architecture and graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2011. During his final year, he received Dean’s List for “Distinction in Design” and Merit in Thesis, and was selected by Blueprint Magazine as “one of the Best of the Student Shows”. Yeung worked on several projects in London, Oxford and Exeter and became a UK Registered Architect in 2014. From 2011 to 2018, he worked at the Foster + Partners Hong Kong office, responsible for high profile projects in Asia such as the Murray Building Hotel, Ocean Terminal Extension and Wuhan masterplan. He has also taught part-time in a design module at HKU Space and was a guest critic at CUHK and HKU.

In 2017, Yeung won the UNESCO UCCN Shenzhen Design Award For Young Talent. He is the Founder and Design Principal of littleurbanmountain, a studio that focuses on architecture, interior design and art projects. His work has been selected by Drawing Prize and was exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin and Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 2017 to 2018. Yeung received a special mention from the jury in ArchiGraphicArts Drawing Competition 2016-17 in Russia. In 2016, a team of three from HKU Space led by Yeung gained an honorable mention for the Flexible Housing Society Contest in Spain.

(de)color is a physical manifestation of the “Trial and Error” process in design. The clear water that goes into the lava lamp installation represents a designer’s own belief and original idea. The different dyes added are analogous to the comments and criticism received in a design process. The repeated cycle of opening up to new ideas and filtering out extraneous information refines and elevates the design without compromising the purity of the original idea.

The final lava lamps, like many design solutions, may not be perfect, but their uniqueness nevertheless makes them special.

Co-Creator

TH Studio (Steve Tam and Hin Tse)

Instagram : @thdesignstudio

Two architecture graduates (Steve Tam and Hin Tse) who are straying inside the hustle and bustle of the working field, slowly losing their enthusiasm. To revive the passion for design and to achieve their promised dream, the two started working together again, hoping to create new sparks when new ideas collide.

More than 20,000 butterflies, remnants of the “Trial and Error” process, are interconnected and bounded to each other by ultrafine wires like a network of nerves. The chair within this network represents human beings. The one and only butterfly that breaks out is illuminated (physically and metaphorically) by external lighting to symbolise a moment of epiphany.

The installation is a spatial interpretation and illustration of the relationship and contrast between “Trial and Error” and “Inspiration” through the use of metaphors.

Co-Creator

Nao Kimura

Website : http://kimura-nao.com/

Nao Kimura was born in Tokyo in 1964. She graduated from the Theory of Design Department at Junior College of Musashino Art University, and graduated from the major program of the school above.

Nao Kimura was employed as product designer in the planning office of toymaker TOMY Company, Ltd. (currently Takara-Tomy Company, Ltd.) In 2009, she started creating her Metamorphosis installation series using countless number of butterflies. Miss Kimura was invited to hold numerous exhibitions not only in Japan, but also in other countries such as Italy, France and Sweden. She was awarded Arte Laguna Prize Special Prize (Italy) in 2017 and Higashi-Kuninomiya Culture Award (Japan) in 2018.

Exploring topics of urban overcrowding, housing shortage and Hong Kong’s urban spatial experience as a microcosm of extreme social disparity.

Examining the delineation between public and private space in the context of Hong Kong’s urban experience, and the sociological and spatial narratives it tells us.

As 21st century cities have sprawled outward, with their spiralling behemoth ring-roads and expanses of suburbia, Hong Kong has instead expanded more deeply and densely into and unto itself – continuously cutting and creating more and more spaces out of its complex, congested urban fabric. Here, like nowhere else, entire global supply chains and systems of power are condensed into one metropolitan experience, from Guangzhou factories that supply the world’s consumer goods to the dominating international financial institutions that dictate global markets. As the world’s systems and structures become more volatile and complex, so too does Hong Kong. And so too does the resulting urban fabric of the city as it continues to expand into itself; its pockets of hyper-locality, the superimposition and segregation of contrasting cultural worlds, the widening extremities of the social classes, the mounting influence of Chinese empire encroaching on spaces of Hong Kongnese identity.

Co-Creator

WE-DESIGNS

Facebook : @WE.DESIGNS.LLC
Instagram : @WendyWFok | @we_designs_llc
Website : http://we-designs.com/

WE PROVIDE CREATIVE STRATEGY FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ™
interactive experiences and spaces, audio-visual installations, shareable digital artifacts, and beyond.
WE are an international network of designers, architects, developers, digital media creatives, producers, brand consultants, art directors, academics, and hustlers.
WE are a generative creative agency delivering branded designs, installations and interactives through a new-technology and research-led approach. We have produced work for museums, festivals, art fairs, public installations, and fashion & lifestyle branding and retail concepts. Our media team develops concepts, audience engagement strategy, experience design, and activations. Our production and design team renders this into the physical, interactive, multi-sensory built experience.
WE believe the international virtual and Internet platform is a means of local to global collaboration, and our trans-disciplinary approach to designing surpasses the traditional physical space. Online video conferencing has become a norm within our practice, to engage with collaborators beyond the metric space and within various international cities. We believe in the many portals of open-source forms of exchange.
As a design practice, we believe that the future of collaborative work includes engaging the design agency beyond the architecture, and probing into various forms of fields and practices, including digital media, advertising, software, design-fabrication, and beyond. Our collaborations range from production work for large cultural events, designs for high-end fashion companies, installations for cultural institutions, to object-based product researched designs. We believe in working towards answering the larger definition of what architecture encompasses within new global practices.
WE DESIGN TOGETHER ™.

The same object often carries different meanings in different eras. The “salted fish” was a meal staple generations ago but has lost its popularity nowadays.

Designer Kay Chan collaborates with Taste Library to initiate an experimental project for a salted fish redux. A contemporary touch is added in every stage from the preservation, to appearance, to packaging design. Visitors are invited to view the salted fish from a brand new perspective.

Co-Creator

Kay Chan (Designer/ Co-curator)

Facebook : @kaychan852
Instagram : @kaychan852

Kay has been exploring sustainable social design, new design strategies and art projects that promote positive community and environmental values. In her recent collaborative community projects, she focuses on enhancing local public space to foster meaningful interactions within diverse communities and addressing environmental issues.

Co-Creator

PMQ Taste Library (Co-curator)

Facebook : @PMQTasteLibrary
Instagram : @pmqtastelibrary

As Hong Kong’s first and only food-focused library, PMQ Taste Library uses food as the cultural bridge to support, inform and connect individuals, community projects and organisations. Through creative projects and cooking workshops, Taste Library promotes the design of flavours and encourages the public to see food with new eyes. Food is, after all, more than survival.

Ocean Stamps take rubber stamps as the medium of environmental education to tell stories of the ocean. Through painting and carving rubber stamps, participants get a clearer picture of the characteristics of cetaceans, their lives, past, present and future.

The workshop will teach participants ways of distinguishing between whales and dolphins. At the end of the workshop, they will take home not only the rubber stamps but also tales of the ocean.

Co-Creator

Ocean Stamps

Facebook : @oceanstampsfwte
Instagram : @oceanstampsfwte

Ocean Stamps began in 2015 in Hualian of Taiwan. The name has double meanings: it literally means “ocean-themed stamps”, and “an oceans person”, someone who has great passion for the sea. The two phrases sound very similar in Cantonese. As a Hongkonger living away from her hometown, the Hong Kong identity is especially dear to the creator behind the brand.

Ocean Stamps promotes ocean education through the making of rubber stamps. Every stamp tells a story, perhaps about sea creatures or perhaps about the crisis our Earth is facing.

“There is still much to be learned about the ocean, and making stamps helps me to keep learning, searching and enriching myself.”

The SUKUMO Leather acquires its unique indigo colour through a completely natural process. Following a 600-year-old Japanese tradition, the dye is made from the fermented leaves of the mature indigo. SUKUMO Leather’s wonderful suppleness and beautiful shades are simply unrivalled. Come and make your own leather bracelet using the inimitable SUKUMO Leather.

Co-Creator

Sukumo Leather

Facebook : @SukumoLeatherPMQ
Instagram : @sukumoleather
Website : http://sukumo-leather.com/en.html

Sukumo Leather hopes to preserve the centuries old natural dyeing process and to introduce the beautiful indigo dyed leather to the world.

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of linocut carving and printing techniques. Participants will learn how to identify what makes an ideal image for a linocut artwork. They can either use their own design or use the readymade ones for printing. Starting with tracing the selected pattern or design and transferring them onto the lino surface, they can then carve the lino block with linocut blades to create a positive image. The image will be inked using a roller with block printing ink and printed onto paper or fabric.

Participants will also learn an easy way to print using a spoon and soap. They can take home the lino block to do more printing at home! The workshop will focus on mono or duo-colour print. Participants may choose to print the same design in multicolours.

Free admission on a first-come, first-served basis. No registration is required.

Co-Creator

Pinacotheca

Facebook : @galeria.postoffice | @Locomotive.kidsculb
Instagram : @posterized.eu | @a.mori_art
Website : https://www.agnieszkamori.com

Pinacotheca is an art and design centre based in Hong Kong, founded by Agnieszka Mori and Anna Zeies.

Mori and Zeies are two passionate friends and creative professionals who believe that art and creating are the tools to heal the world. A wide spectrum of workshops are offered for both adults and kids, groups and individuals, without age limitations. With different experiences from Poland, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany, Mori and Zeies both focus on creative teaching and experimenting, with a mission to help people see beauty in themselves while creating artworks. To them, “Trial and errors” is a process that one must go through while creating.

Banish the winter blues with some incense.

In this workshop, okapi studio will introduce the history of incense in Hong Kong, followed by related folklore. Participants will learn about various fragrant materials that are suitable for winter, such as cypress, clove and sand ginger. They can then choose amongst these materials and learn to make their own incense stick.

Co-Creator

okapi studio

Facebook : @okapistudiohk
Instagram : @okapistudio
Website : http://www.okapistudio.org

okapi studio is dedicated to promoting incense culture (dragon-shaped incense, Japanese-style incense, incense stick, Tibetan incense and rope incense ) through activities and collaborations with NGOs and craftsmen, such as handmade incense products, workshops, farm visits and art exhibition. The studio maintains close and long-term partnerships with their collaborators and their work has been widely reported by the media.

Creativity is letting our imagination run wild, while art is the process of selecting beautiful work. Have fun with acrylic paint and conduct your own messy symphony! Join us in exploring combination of colours, shapes and textures, and create your own unique picture through the process of trial and error.

Incorporating UV resin art, your favourite colours and patterns will be transformed into a necklace or a keychain. Whether you are a skilled painter or kids who simply love messing around with crayons, a couple of friends, or a sweet family, it does not matter! We can all experience the search for exquisite beauty in a process seemingly filled with randomness and mistakes. Come and compose a chaotic yet melodic symphony together!

Co-Creator

Shel crafts&music

Facebook : @shel.crafts.music
Instagram : @shel.crafts.music

Shel crafts&music was founded by Rachel Chan (Shel) in 2014. Her passion in music and art sparked the idea of combining the two things she loves, creating artworks inspired by melodies and lyrics. She believes music can evoke images, shades of colours, emotions and memories.

Shel designs hand-drawn resin accessories expressing the meaning of songs or lyrics, including tailor-made products. Together with friends sharing similar interests, Shel also provides workshops for the community, ranging from kindergarten kids at fun fairs, to teens in youth centres, and adults coming for private classes.

Shel crafts&music also makes use of social media as a platform to share DIY ideas, music covers, as well as original music.
Art can connect people of different backgrounds, languages or ages. Shel is dedicated to share the enjoyable experience of design and craft-making with the community. Hoping to provide more meaningful artworks, Shel will continue to explore different possibilities of expressing music visually.

Drawing is mostly about hand-eye coordination, so that everything is precise and the result is visually pleasing. Have you ever tried drawing staring at your subject without looking at the paper? Maybe you will end up with something funny that bears no resemblance to the subject. It is an alternative way to practise hand-eye coordination, letting your hand trace what you see. Let's step out of our preconceived ideas of beauty and explore the other possibilities together!

(The organizer suggests participants attend the workshop in groups of at least 2 people.)

Co-Creator

Witty And Bluey

Facebook : @WittyAndBluey
Instagram : @wittyandbluey

Witty and Bluey is a creative sister duo consisting of an independent illustrator and a registered art therapist (expressive arts). They believe in the power of art and its integration into people’s daily lives. Art brings out the joy in us. What’s more important than learning to be happy about life and embracing our blues?

Witty is an illustrator whose work can be found on posters and publications for Non-Government Organizations. She is also an art educator who enjoys sharing happiness and life through art.

Bluey is a registered art therapist (expressive arts) who aspires to walk alongside those in need through art.

In the contemporary consumer culture where consumption is actively encouraged, let’s take a moment to look at the things around us. Join us in our workshop, which is inspired by nature, to create your very own tree branch shaker with tree branches found on hiking trails, seashells collected from beaches in Lantau, and bottle caps saved from our daily life. This is a hands-on and experiential workshop led and guided by the founders of Sap Fong.

Co-Creator

Sap Fong

Facebook : @sapfonghk
Instagram : @sapfong

Sap Fong, founded by Jessica Kong and Dexter Lee, sees the story behind every object from nature and everyday life, weaving them into a collection of anecdotes. Sap Fong begins with the process of collecting and rethinking used and found objects, and through exploration uncovers new perspectives from everyday life.

The popularity of different ingredients in cooking varies from decade to decade. Sometimes the use of a certain ingredient declines only because of our limited knowledge and understanding of it. Is salted fish only good for fried rice and meat cake? Curator Andy Dark will demonstrate other possibilities of using salted fish creatively to make dishes that you wouldn’t have expected!

Co-Creator

PMQ Taste Library

Facebook : @pmqtastelibrary
Instagram : @pmqtastelibrary

As Hong Kong’s first and only food-focused library, PMQ Taste Library uses food as the cultural bridge to support, inform and connect individuals, community projects and organisations. Through creative projects and cooking workshops, Taste Library promotes the design of flavours and encourages the public to see food with new eyes. Food is, after all, more than survival.

Cartoonist Craig Au-Yeung has turned plates into his canvas, painting caricatures on blue and white porcelain tableware that visualises his worldly reflections.

Visitors are welcome to go to PMQ Taste Library for an artistic plating experience incorporating ingredients of vibrant colours and textures. Come explore the possibilities and create something uniquely yours!

Co-Creator

Au Yeung Ying Chai Craig

Born in Hong Kong, Au-Yeung Ying Chai Craig is a food curator, a cartoonist, and a food, travel and lifestyle writer.

Au-Yeung founded Taste Library in Hong Kong in 2014, and organised “Craig’s Half Full Kitchen” in Beijing in 2015. In 2018 he established the cultural space Qizai in Xian, to enrich the culinary art and food aesthetic scene with diversified content.

Au-Yeung was the ambassador for Slow Food Great China in 2017.

MODEMENT’s design respects human touch and promotes the effective use of resources. We weave leftover fabrics into every new collection by hand to produce “zero waste” and fulfill our green fashion responsibilities. Every art piece we create comes from the accumulation of techniques and experiences. To let participants experience our creative process, this workshop uses mesh-knotting accessories as a medium to introduce visitors to basic weaving and knotting techniques. They will be able to make use of leftover fabrics to weave their own bracelets, or turn it into a necklace by adding our leather accessories.

Co-Creator

MODEMENT

Facebook : @MODEMENT.hk
Instagram : @modement
Website : http://modement.hk/

MODEMENT is a Hong Kong based fashion label established in 2010. For years, the designer has been crafting unisex image for both genders (with a rare emphasis on menswear) by using minimal cutting and outstanding silhouettes. In 2013, MODEMENT was officially launched during Hong Kong Fashion Week. Most of the collection is strongly influenced by the multi-faceted culture of Hong Kong, ranging from hybridised city landscape to vernacular food stores. It is of essence to MODEMENT that every single piece of fashion carries a meaning of its own which inspires, communicates and finally enhances the wearers. The stockists cover Japan, Egypt, Hong Kong and Mainland China.

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.” – Paul Klee

A zine (mini-magazine) is a self-published work that is usually reproduced via the photocopier. The DIY aesthetics encourages risk-taking and playfulness. Through a series of rapid iterative process and ideation exercise, participants will generate visual imagery and text to create a series of handmade “zines” which explore the values of “Trial and Error”, risk-taking and experimentation in design. The focus of this workshop is humanising creativity and normalising failure through self-expression. The completed zines will be printed and exhibited at the end of the workshop day in our pop-up studio.

(Participants need to bring a smartphone with the Instagram app installed.)

Co-Creator

Swinburne's School of Design

Instagram : @swinburne_design
Website : http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design

Swinburne's School of Design is a recognised leader in
providing high quality, industry-relevant education and research. Our innovative courses are internationally recognised and our graduates are known for their creative leadership. Our courses encourage specialisation, cross-disciplinary collaboration and international study experiences, which prepare our students for global design careers.

Disciplines include Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Communication Design, Digital Media Design, Photomedia, Design Strategy, Innovation and Design, and Branded Environments. The School has deep connections with the Australian Design Industry and has run its Industry Placement program for over 40 years, giving students the opportunities to gain experience in leading design studios and design-led organisations.

Design and art are transcended through breakthroughs amid “Trial and Error”. Glazing (enamel painting) is an art form that requires a lot of “Trial and Error” to master which one can often achieve surprising results.

This workshop not only allows participants to experience the changes of low-temperature glaze, it also teaches participants to use pure silver to fold paper planes from our childhood memories.

Let the paper plane take your dreams! Freedom, flying higher and farther better! Let it accomplish the unfinished dreams, and hope for a better life in the future. Folding the paper plane reminds us all the “Trial and Error” moments in our lives.

Co-Creator

Lucy Shih

Facebook : @lucyshih.oecoeco

Lucy Shih obtained the Master in Fashion Design at the Royal College of Art, UK. Lucy is a well-known Haute Couture designer in Hong Kong. The former Princess Alexandra of Denmark was once her client. In 2006, she developed a series of Eco-Multi-usage garment which was later successfully patented.

Lucy has been a guest lecturer at tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Britain since 2000.

Lucy Shih launched her shop at PMQ in 2014. It is a home to groom new designers. Apart from the prominent fashions and accessories designed by Lucy Shih, innovative products from novice designers, who are being given utmost nurture by Lucy, are displayed for sales here. The shop is run as a design training centre.

It is so relaxing to put down everything and just focus on the watercolour painting. The way it blends with water is so satisfying.

We will introduce the technique of watercolour and way to paint floral, then you can create your own watercolour wreath. Add a nice quote or name in the wreath to make it a valuable gift for your loved one.

Co-Creator

HeyJune Studio

Instagram : @HeyJune.Studio

HeyJune Studio provides a quiet and peaceful place for busy and stressed people to slow down and enjoy the moment.

Art is a great therapy for lives. HeyJune Studio not only teaches techniques, but also engages art in daily lives. We teach drawing and painting to people of all ages, hoping that they will enjoy art.

Have you imagined what you could do with all the waste paper every day? Take a moment to think about giving these paper a second life. Join us for a creative recycled seed paper-making workshop, and we will show you how easy it is to make our own recycled paper with tools around us. You can write and grow your own beautiful plant and delicious herb from the recycled seed paper made by yourself.

Co-Creator

Sap Fong

Facebook : @sapfonghk
Instagram : @sapfong

Sap Fong, founded by Jessica Kong and Dexter Lee, sees the story behind every object from nature and everyday life, weaving these into a collection of anecdotes. Sap Fong begin with the process of collecting and rethinking the used and found objects, and through exploration uncover new perspectives from everyday life.

The same object often carries different meanings in different eras. The “salted fish” was a meal staple generations ago but its popularity has since waned. With a twist in design, contemporary inspirations on “salted fish” will be born. Let’s revisit the pungent and delicious salted fish all over again in this year’s deTour!

Speaker

Kay Chan (Designer)

Facebook : @kaychan852
Instagram : @kaychan852

Kay Chan has been exploring sustainable social design, new design strategies and art projects that promote positive community and environmental values. In her recent collaborative community projects, she focuses on enhancing local public space to foster meaningful interactions within diverse communities and addressing environmental issues.

Speaker

Andy Dark

Facebook : @sirandydark
Instagram : @andy_dark

As one of the current curators at PMQ Taste Library, Andy started his career in the F&B industry by pursuing a diploma at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Institute and cultivated his own culinary sensibilities at various notable restaurants in Hong Kong and Canada. Today, he continues to cook with passion and advocate for food, creating flavours and recipes that inspire happiness.

Organizer

PMQ Taste Library

Facebook : @PMQTasteLibrary
Instagram : @pmqtastelibrary
Website : http://www.pmq.org.hk/shop/taste-library/

As Hong Kong’s first and only food-focused library, PMQ Taste Library uses food as the cultural bridge to support, inform and connect individuals, community projects and organisations. Through creative projects and cooking workshops, Taste Library promotes the design of flavours and encourages the public to see food with new eyes. Food is, after all, more than survival.

Three Loupe’s designers-in-residence will take the audience along on their journeys of “Trial and Error” in becoming independent jewellery designers. They will share with the audience their struggles of creating their own paths in order to follow their dreams.

Speaker

Aimee Lee (Founder, Paradeisos)

Aimee Lee is a Hong Kong-based jewellery designer and the founder of the designer jewellery brand, Paradeisos. As a gemologist graduated from the Gemological Institute of America, Lee has profound interest in gemstones and believes that every piece of gemstone has its own individual uniqueness and personality.

Lee founded Paradeisos to fulfill her dream of creating luxurious and unique jewellery art pieces crafted from natural gemstones with a competitive price. Citing influence from Lee’s studies at Le Arti Orafe in Italy, the main design concept of Paradeisos is simplicity. Lee has also credited her innovation process to years of working experience in a high jewellery team, and often incorporates dots, lines, geometric shapes and structures into her design for a refreshing twist.

Standing out from the crowd by blessing a touch of delicateness in gemstone jewellery designs, Paradeisos has a unique universal appeal that will prove its value through time.

Speaker

Alessia Prati (Jewellery Maker)

Alessia Prati is an Italian designer and jewellery maker. She graduated from the Fashion Design programme of Politecnico di Milano in 2014, and started working as fashion and graphic designer for Italian and international companies.

After taking jewellery short courses in Milan and at Central Saint Martins in London, she moved to Florence where she obtained another degree in Contemporary Jewellery from the prestigious Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in 2018. Her works have been exhibited in Milan, Florence and London during design festivals and jewellery fairs.

With never-ending curiosity and will of experimentation, she explores the possibilities for body ornament: mixing her contemporary jewellery research and fashion background to create a dialogue between the areas of the human body, gestures and movements.

Alessia is currently developing her own brand “Alessia Prati Jewellery”, which focuses on translating her artistic research into a more commercial line.

Speaker

Sam Wong (Founder, Mille-Feuille Fashion)

Sam Wong Hok Pan is a Hong Kong-based fashion accessories designer, also the founder of the 3D printing fashion accessories brand Mille-Feuille Fashion. He is a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University - BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product Design). Sam worked for a design studio established in Hong Kong by Italy’s Alessi family. The design style of Sam is strongly influenced by Italian minimalist design. He draws inspiration from the geometric elements, art movement and art history, combining them with 3D printing technologies nowadays.

Sam hopes to explore different design categories in addition to product design. Apart from the Mille-Feuille Fashion, he also co-founded the concrete craft fashion accessories brand – C3CraftStudio. He wishes to explore the possibility and variety of concrete.

Sam’s design has won Italy’s Bronze A’ Design Award and exhibited in Museum of Design MOOD. He hopes to raise the understanding and recognition for Hong Kong Design. He also wishes to crossover with designers from all over the world.

Organizer

Loupe

Facebook : @loupehongkong
Instagram : @loupehongkong
Website : http://www.loupe.com.hk

Taking reference from the magnifying glass used for gemstone examination and jewellery-making, Loupe is a design incubation space founded by Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group and fully supported by Chow Tai Fook Art Foundation to discover and foster new generations of jewellery design talents.

Located right in the heart of Hong Kong at PMQ in Central, Loupe houses boutique, exhibition space, workshop and teahouse to provide a platform for designers to further their crafts and skills and engage with the public.

More people are aware of typography in the recent years. It is always interesting to look into the stories behind each typeface and its applications. Afterall, words are read in context.

This conversation between typeface designer Calvin Kwok and Sunny Yuen, Artistic Director of Blackpaper, will focus on how typography communicates with its audiences.

Calvin will start with the current trend that brand names are departing from serif typeface to sans-serif typeface. By looking into the trend and the changes in technology and the contemporary society, the interrelations among typography, brands and design tools will be discussed.

On the other hand, Sunny will begin with his observation on the creation of message-driven typefaces and the practical use of calligraphy. He will also be sharing on the interactions between typefaces and their contexts in the community.

Speaker

Calvin Kwok (Type Designer)

Instagram : @cliko
Website : http://calvinkwok.co

Calvin Kwok is a type designer / typographer who graduated from University of Reading with an M.A. in typeface design. He joined Apple Inc type team as an intern for a year after his graduation. He now specialises in multilingual type design, lettering and typography.

Speaker

Sunny Yuen (Art Director, Blackpaper)

Sunny Yuen is a Hong Kong based graphic designer born in the 80s, who specialises in publishing, branding and loves typography.

The five human senses play a unique role by receiving signal from the environment and then relayed to the brain for interpretation. These senses are major elements for creating designs.

Co-organized by deTour and HKHands, 5 Senses Market invites you to be inspired through vivid colours of handmade soap and jewellery, fragrance from perfumes and dried flowers, and delicacy like tea and jam.

Organizer

HKHands

Facebook : @hkhandsss
Instagram : @hkhandsss
Website : http://www.hkhands.com

See and be discovered!

HKHands is a group to support the creative activities of Hong Kong design and craft artisans. Trough organizing events and exhibitions; participating international exhibitions, we provide communicating platforms to both Hong Kong and overseas artists. As well as a broad cultural experience for the general public.