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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Stone carving is an art of elimination, anything that is not needed is taken away. Every move is calculated; every step, whether good or bad, contributes to the final product. Just be brave: try and make mistakes. Try your best, enjoy the process and admire the final result.

Participants will work on a piece of 1-3kg soapstone (children will work with a smaller piece).

Process:
1. The tutor will introduce basic knowledge of stone carving and guide participants to create a draft for their stone sculptures.
2. Participants will begin carving.
3. Sanding and polishing of the sculptures.
4. Photo taking and packaging.

The workshop will take approximately 3 hours.

Co-Creator

Soapstone Studio

Facebook : @soapstonestudio
Instagram : @soapstonestiKiio

Soapstone Studio is founded by Yim Pui Yan, who learned soapstone carving from Swiss sculptor Axel Zwahlen in 2012. After graduation, she began a career as a language teacher and began to introduce stone carving to Hong Kong. Since 2016, she began to immerse herself in Chinese tea culture and infuse her work with oriental aesthetics. From then on, Yim focuses on creating works that are inspired by mountains, and started Soapstone Studio with the hope to help connecting human and nature. In August this year, Soapstone Studio was selected by Pinkoi HK as one of the 100 designs featured at their pop up store.

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.

The Night Lamp consists of layers of printed plastic film in a wooden box with a glass panel. The tutor will guide the participants on how to arrange the layers to create depth to the image and achieve a 3D effect. A round LED light is placed at the back of all the layers to glow like a “full moon”. Dried petals will be added inside the wooden box to mimic gentle snowfall.

Participants are encouraged to try out different arrangements of the film layers to get their desired final effect.

Co-Creator

Starology

Facebook : @starologystudio
Instagram : @starology_stayorgo

Starology was founded in 2015. The name was inspired by Wislawa Szymborska’s poem Under One Small Star. The mindful awareness of impermanence reminds humans to become present with what is happening all around us and appreciate the beauty of nature to which the studio dedicates themselves in their designs.

The creators feels that humans are insignificant in comparison to the wisdom of nature. Let us embrace the world with a humble and gentle heart.

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.

Pick and choose from fabric swatches of different sizes and shapes, and stitch them up with hammer, needles and threads. Learn how to make your own ethnic style cardholder with cloth and washable kraft paper.

Co-Creator

Mishtar

Facebook : @MishtarLifeStyle
Instagram : @mishtarlifestyle

Mishtar was established in 2010, specialising in the creation of hand-made folk style designs and products.

Mishtar is a Hebrew word, which means “the power and the rule”. Their belief is to create with specific rules to lead to infinite possibilities, hoping that through their works people can pay more attention to the fun in life, and the possibility of ‘life on life’.

The team tries to find different elements to create different types of works and fall in love with the dreamcatcher and its ancient legend originated from native Indian tribes. It is a blessing for their beloved ones, as well as its nation, and an inspiration for Mishtar’s designs.

Accidents happen despite the best of care. When something with sentimental value is damaged, you would want to have it restored. Kintsugi is a beautiful way to address our errors.

Kintsugi is the traditional method of repairing ceramics, wood-work and glass using lacquer and gold or silver. It is an ongoing learning process that requires constant practice of “trial and error”.

Through repairing and showing off the imperfections, the item is imbued with new value, meaning and aesthetics. And the practice itself is both healing and meditative.

***The final product can be picked up from studio after 2 weeks for cooling

Co-Creator

Waka Artisans

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

Waka Artisans showcases the very best of Japanese culture through the medium of hand-crafted ceramics. The work on display features an array of handmade tableware, including tea ware, plates, bowls and other art works, all made by Japanese artists.

There is also a wide selection of artisanal sake cups that would be of particular interest to those who appreciate sake.

Each piece has been personally selected by the Waka Artisans founder, Takako Kosciuszko, ensuring that they are not only beautifully unique pieces of art but also practical for everyday use.

Handcrafted jewellery always evokes feeling of warmth and uniqueness that mass-produced items can never replicate.

The Floral Branch Bangle is one of the most adored signature creations from Pamycarie. Participants will design the bangle with the floral ornaments provided. They will then be guided to assemble the flowers and beads onto the bangle with silver threads. A fine UV coating needs to be applied on the bangle which will be placed under the UV light to set before it is ready to be picked up.

The workshop will take approximately 90 minutes.

Co-Creator

Pamycarie

Facebook : @Pamycarie
Instagram : @pamycarie
Website : http://www.pamycarie.com

Pamycarie is a couture floral jewellery brand from Hong
Kong. All items are designed and handmade by
their artists.
They wish to create unique visual articulations that
popular market and mass production could never
provide. They feel that there is something unexplored
about flowers, so they maximise the possibilities in
flower-making following their own aesthetics. Tailor-made requests are welcome.

“Wastes are resources that people yet to see!”

This No.5 Upcycling Rapport (report) does not only give us an overview of the recycling situation in Hong Kong and the challenges that we are facing, it also shows how proper upcycling could help us build a more sustainable environment.

Participants will learn how to create and customise their own wallets from recycled light-boxes (plastic no.5, polypropylene), using origami folding techniques and through a process of “Trial and Error”.

This original origami wallet design is created to work better and last longer than traditional leather wallets. A wallet that is sustainable, durable, functional, beautiful, and affordable at the same time. Too good to be true? Come and “fold” for yourself!

Co-Creator

Blackbody Lab

Facebook : @blackbodylab
Instagram : @blackbody_lab
Website : http://www.blackbody.co/openwallet

Blackbody Lab is a local product design studio with a vision to
bring productive changes to our society through valuable designs.

Inspired by a physics concept, we believe that a valuable design should behave just like a “black body” which embraces social differences, absorbs human negative influences to the
environment, and still able to radiate positive impacts to our everyday living.

From our senior citizens’ sock-wearing problem to the worsening materialistic lifestyle of recent generations, each Blackbody project is set to research and develop practical solutions towards a specific social issue. Through the superficiality of the current consumer market, it is clearer than ever that it is our responsibility to generate true value through the design of "black bodies".

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.

In this workshop, participants will make a pair of seamless wool booties for infants for their first steps in life. Just like every step of our lives, we all learn how to walk by “Trial and Error”. We need to equip our little ones so they will go ahead and march forward into their bright future.

Co-Creator

Debbie Leung

Facebook : @debbieleung
Instagram : @debbieleunghk
Website : http://www.debbieleung.com.hk

The brand “Handmade by Debbie Leung“ was founded a few years ago in Hong Kong. The products are handmade by Debbie Leung, an artist whose works are created predominantly with hand-dyed natural fiber. They are mostly one off unique wearable pieces.

The Brand further develops a mindful fashion line “Debbie Leung” to incorporate collaborations with other artists, craftsmen and underprivileged groups. The brand philosophy strongly supports a healthy economic cycle and fair trade principles.

Apart from providing an alternative income to these groups, it translates ancient craftwork to a modern context. When a garment is handmade by a person in ancient ways, it carries a story behind the tangible form. It becomes a manifestation of human wisdom and culture passing from generations to generations. In short, it is a crystallization of art and culture.

The Brand celebrates objects that hold meaning for the producers and for the wearers, meaning that is inherent in the textile itself.

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.

As the Chinese proverb goes, “Failure teaches success.” Mistakes are inevitable in our creative process and we can only learn and improve from them. Practice makes perfect and eventually leads to success.

Weaving seems simple but any lapse in concentrate and the piece will never get completed. This workshop not only teaches Turkish traditional weaving skills, but also focus training. Learn how to use traditional skills to create a new lanyard strap for your camera or cardholder.

Co-Creator

Rapture Handmade

Instagram : @rapture_handmade

Rapture Handmade started in 2015 with the aim to create modern products with traditional art skills.

Every country has its own culture. We learn from the past, absorb the knowledge and mix it with new ideas. Our studio mainly focuses on weaving, dyeing, embroidery and colour matching, with traditional art skills originating from China, Japan, America and Turkey. We mix them together to promote the inner beauty of art-making, and heartily pass on precious traditions.

Rapture Handmade also holds different workshops and collaborates with different studios to promote the fun and beauty of these traditional skills.

Let art flows into life!

Flow art emphasises on the fluidity and transformational quality of paint. By skilfully mixing and controlling the ink flow, unique and elegant art pieces can be created.

Participants will learn how to make a beautiful flow art wooden jewelry plate in the one-hour workshop. They will learn how to mix epoxy colour pigments and the skills of creating different effects.

Flow art workshop is suitable for everyone.

Co-Creator

Go With The Flow Workshop

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

Go With The Flow Workshop was founded by Zoe and Quintus in 2016. The Workshop holds artwork, design and flow art workshops, and creating home decorations. They hope that people can enjoy flow art and use it to release the pressure of contemporary life, and bring art into people’s daily life through creating home decorations and hosting workshops.

“Feel with your hands, and follow your heart! Enjoy and submerge your mind in the flowing of pigments. In the end, you will be surprised by the results.” – Zoe

“Art should not be observed, it should be a part of our daily living.” – Zoe & Quintus

Signages, patterns and marks found in our neighbourhoods are full of collective memories and cultural references. Print them on zinc iron mailboxes to produce unique creations with Hong Kong characteristics.

Co-Creator

1a space

Facebook : @oneaspace
Instagram : @1a_space
Website : https://www.oneaspace.org.hk/

1a space, founded in 1998, is an independent, non-profit contemporary visual art organisation and art venue established by a group of Hong Kong art workers. It aims to promote the critical dissemination of contemporary visual art practices and affiliated art forms, drawn from local and international arenas, through the 1a space programme. The operation of 1a space is supported by grants and donations. 1a space’s administration cost is partially supported by the Hong Kong Art Development Council.

“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.

The workshop combines sustainable design with object restoration and upcycling. Come and learn about practical carpentry and metalwork skills, and experiment creatively through re-designing and re-using waste materials.

The team believes that the gist of upcycled design is the way it inspires creativity through experimentation of objects that are seemingly useless. Cheong Gor, the craft master from UpCycling Plus, has turned his own vintage cargo bike into a mobile carpentry and metalworking space. Participants will design and create unique accessories from waste and raw materials using practical restoring tools and skills instructed. During the workshop, Cheong Gor will also share about his vintage aesthetics, traditional craftsmanship and modern upcycling design experience with the participants.

Co-Creator

UpCycling Plus

Facebook : @up.cycling.plus
Instagram : @up.cycling.plus
Website : https://upcyclingplus.wixsite.com/mysite

UpCycling Plus is started by a group of skilled craftsmen and post-90s apprentices with the goal to promote mobility through upcycling and cycling. In addition to providing a platform for sharing skills and knowledge through guided upcycling tours and workshops, UpCycling Plus also creates a cargo bike that travels through neighbourhoods as a mobile tools library. We aim to bring creativity, vintage aesthetics and traditional craftsmanship to the average household, creating more possibilities in our lives and community. Let’s turn wastes into improved tastes!

UpCycling Plus’ designers, Cheong Gor and Stephanie Fung, have participated in various community projects and art and design events in Hong Kong.

Want to go through the “Trial and Error” of making handmade soap? Join us to turn our food waste into soap!

You will be meeting our soap expert and we will be shaping your soap with bare hands. In order to make a 100g soap, 37g of food residuals, varying from coffee drag, local rice chaff and expired yellow ginger powder, will be used. This will be a nourishing cleansing experience to help solving food waste problem and turn our planet back to a healthy place to live in.

Co-Creator

HK Soap

Facebook : @hksoap
Instagram : @hksoap

HK Soap aims to inspire people to reconnect with food by upcycling them into handmade soap, not only raise awareness but also to boost our personal responsibility. Dedicated to help solve the food waste problem in Hong Kong, HK Soap makes
each 100g Soap with 37g of food residuals.
We create products with natural components, grounded with the finest oils and shaped with bare hands. HK Soaps contain rich nutrients that will surely nourish your skin and relieve stress. The benefits of the soaps do not stop here. In addition to improving the health of your family, the soaps also ensure the health of our planet.

Electroluminescent wire (EL Wire) generates similar effects but is safer and easier to handle when compared with neon light, and it is the main material for this workshop.

Participants will be given a two-metre long EL wire. They will first learn about the usage and limitations of this material, then they will develop a draft based on their own choice of pattern and / or texts and decide on the measurements before twisting and creating the final product.

Co-Creator

Myosotis Flower

Facebook : @Myosotis.f
Instagram : @myosotis.flower
Website : https://uniqueshan.wixsite.com/myosotisflower

Myosotis Flower started as an online store that mainly provides customised floral goods, such as bouquets and floral accessories in Nov 2016. In 2018, it turned into a physical studio to organise workshops and tailor-made products. The studio has collaborated with different organisations and NGOs, and was interviewed by several media.

Indigo Tie Dye (natural dye) is one of the most ancient crafts in human history. The participants will be taught traditional dyeing techniques to create a unique piece of indigo cutlery bag.

Co-Creator

Giants Tie Dye

Facebook : @giantstiedye
Instagram : @giants_tiedye

Siu and Josh are the founders of Giants Tie Dye.
They travelled to Yunnan, Japan and Taiwan to learn tie dyeing from different groups and later embarked
on a fruitful career in this traditional art. They were
invited to exhibit in Hong Kong and Taiwan in 2016, and
have also organized different workshops in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan since 2014.

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.

With locally planted blue dye, let’s start the dye journey together and find out stories about textile and dyeing of the city. Blue dye is an art with thousands of years of history. But do you know how many processes are required to dye a piece of clothing blue?

This workshop hopes that those who like to dye and fond of textiles will learn more about the different cultures of blue dye around the world. Each little step will add colour to the final product.

Participants may choose between handcraft handkerchief and tote bag for blue dyeing.

Co-Creator

Small Smile by Sarah

Instagram : @smallsmile.hk

“Searching for the blue that belongs to Hong Kong” is the spirit of Small Smile by Sarah.

Starting from 2014, Sarah has been looking for different stories about textile in Hong Kong. Every stitch by the sewing machine, a small string bag or even a double-sided tote bag, the magical blue dye patterns works wonderfully on all materials.

Small Smile by Sarah hopes that happy smile can spread to the faces of those who are engaged in textile dyeing during the magical “Blue Dye” experience.

Creation is keep trying. Failures and setbacks will be encountered, but this is the most unique essence of handcrafted pieces.

Art is a conduit for the development of the self and the world.

Art psychotherapy is a form of treatment, a tool for self-development and exploration. In our daily lives, we try to make plans, and sometimes we make mistakes. We would evaluate, rework and reinvent to discover something new. Art psychotherapy can be the very testing ground for us to process life, and free ourselves from the emotional baggage we carry.

The session will be led by 1 to 2 professional art psychotherapists, and begin with simple sharing among participants. Followed by warm up exercise and art activities tailored to explore their inner worlds, participants can then proceed to interact with group members and respective therapists to talk about their personal discoveries.

They will learn tips and tricks to self-care using art, followed by Q and A about art psychotherapy.

Co-Creator

Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists

Facebook : @hkaatorg
Website : http://www.HKAAT.org

Based upon the belief of the healing power of art in therapy,
The Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists was established
in 2002 to promote and enhance the continued development
of art therapy practice, guided by ethical and professional standards.

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.

Taking references from the landmarks of Hong Kong’s old districts, the city’s historical background and cultural stories, participants will create stencils with patterns and motifs inspired by the city and its communities. Spray painting on bricks through visual arrangement, juxtaposition and repetition of stencils will be introduced to the participants. They will create a collage of our city’s possibilities through spray painting on bricks.

Co-Creator

1a Space

Facebook : @oneaspace
Instagram : @1a_space
Website : https://www.oneaspace.org.hk/

1a space, founded in 1998, is an independent, non-profit contemporary visual art organisation and art venue established by a group of Hong Kong art workers. It aims to promote the critical dissemination of contemporary visual arts practices and affiliated art forms, drawn from the local and international arenas, through the 1a space programme. The operation of 1a space has been supported by grants and donations. 1a space’s administration cost is partially supported by the Hong Kong Art Development Council.

At the very beginning, a piece of paper is made by interweaving fibers. Different kinds of fiber produce paper products with different functions. Paper made from rough fibers is suitable for making decorations, such as wrapping paper, lampshade, wallet etc; while paper made from smooth fibers is used for writing, book-making and printing.

During the papermaking process, the pounding sound of wooden hammer hitting on plants to extract fibres intertwines with the stress-relieving sound of waves. We are allowed to focus on the present moment, and reconnect to ourselves. You will experience this process first-hand at the workshop.

Co-Creator

LomfaFair

Facebook : @lomfafair
Instagram : @lomfafair

In 2014, The Lomfa Fair Handmade Paper Workshop was established by Redtonetone - a founder with a passion for the art of traditional handcrafted papermaking.

During her long stay in Taiwan, Redtonetone followed master Lin Zheng-li to learn and to understand the profession and artistry of traditional handmade papers.

Through different workshops and speech-giving opportunities via various media channels, Redtonetone actively promotes the idea of “Handmade paper, made in HK” and the succession of papermaking.

In response to the theme of deTour 2018 – “Trial & Error”, this event explores whether “Trial & Error” plays a positive role in the design process or otherwise, especially in the context of Hong Kong where efficiency and convenience rule supreme. Is there room for “learning from mistakes” even though there may be a case for “refinement by iterations”? Indeed, which is more conducive for creativity? The motion for the debate “Linear Design Process = Efficient Design Process” will provoke the Proposition and Opposition Teams of speakers to challenge each other’s views on the value of “Trial & Error”.

Following the success of “TALK! 2016” and “TALK! 2016 – Retake”, this event combines the British tradition of serious debates with a contemporary twist, and promises to be an informative yet edgy, fun and interactive exchange of views around the engaging theme of deTour 2018.

At the beginning of the event, the audience will be asked whether they support the motion or otherwise before the speakers from each team will do their best to win over more support from the audience with their respective presentations. Then, instead of Q&A, two guest speakers selected by each team from the audience will go on stage to express their views to further strengthen the respective team’s case. The audience will be asked to cast their votes again at the end of the debate and the team with the greater gain in support will be declared the winners on the night. Prizes will be awarded to the guest speakers of the winning team.

Speaker

Host : Roger Wu (Council Member, RIBA | Chairman, RIBA Hong Kong Chapter)

Organizer

RIBA HK Chapter

Facebook : @RIBAhongkong
Website : https://www.riba.hk.org

The RIBA Hong Kong Chapter aims to promote architecture in Hong Kong and the region, showcase the work of Hong Kong members, raise recognition of their professional and technical excellence and stimulate engaging discourse on architecture and the built environment within the profession, the construction industry and the wider public.

The RIBA launched the Hong Kong Chapter in September 2012, representing the interests of around 900 members based in Hong Kong and liaises with members in China as well as other countries in the Asia Pacific region. The HK Chapter is run by an elected Committee of 16 members, for which Roger Wu is the current Chairman, with John Campbell as Honorary Secretary and Martin Williams as Honorary Treasurer.

Since 2014, the RIBA HK Chapter have been organising a series of annual architecturally inspired events entitled “EAT!”, “TALK!”, “SHOP!” and “CELEBRATE!’ that engage with what Hong Kong loves best, as well as the monthly series “Brick on Break: Professional Series”, all to raise the profile of the profession in the region.

Four F&B up-and-coming talents and entrepreneurs will talk about the “Trial and Error” process they have undergone in launching PMQ Taste Kitchen, Hong Kong’s first-ever F&B incubation programme, and the relationship between the food industry and design.

Speaker

Caleb Ng & Joshua Ng (Founders, Twins Kitchen)

Founders of Twins Kitchen, a Hong Kong based consultancy and creative firm focusing on the food and beverage industry. As F&B consultants, Caleb and Joshua provide professional advice, support and guidance to clients, including both forthcoming and existing restaurants. With their in-house graphic and design team, Twins Kitchen also work on visual design, interior design and the construction of brand identity. The twins currently own Common Ground, a slow-paced café and lifestyle store in Hong Kong, and the Chinese dumpling bar GAO in Copenhagen, Denmark.

On top of being young entrepreneurs, the twins also put effort into social projects, developing solutions in treating food and coffee waste. Their current project XCHANGE: Social Gastronomy at Oi! Art Space in Hong Kong provides an alternative way in tackling the local food waste problem through food design. They are also working closely with eco-experts to upcycle coffee grounds as materials for furniture and clothing.

Speaker

Stephanie Wong (Founder, Roots Eatery)

Stephanie Wong is the talented chef behind Hong Kong-based catering brand Roots Eatery. The banker-turned-chef was one of the first young talents joining PMQ Taste Kitchen’s incubator programme. Her “A Personal Affair: a unique dinner tasting menu”, and “Voyage from the Mediterranean”, won the hearts of Taste Kitchen’s diners as well as the city’s gourmets. After working as a banker for almost a decade, Stephanie quit and moved to Paris in 2015 to pursue her culinary dream.

In addition to receiving her Culinary Arts Diploma from legendary chef Alain Ducasse’s cookery school, Stephanie honed her skills at Michelin-starred restaurant Hostellerie De Plaisance in Saint Emilion before returning to Hong Kong to work at the two-starred fine dining temple, Amber, at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental.

Her catering brand Roots Eatery draws inspiration from humble root vegetables, which are nourishing, fulfilling and nutritious. It is little wonder that Stephanie’s decidedly simple culinary philosophy – to go back to the basics and give the utmost love and respect to every ingredient and let their original taste and beauty shine – quickly wins her countless fans.

Speaker

Claire Kim (Founder and Pastry Chef, Claire de Lune)

Korean pastry chef Claire Kim will be presenting her creations under her brand Claire de Lune. Kim is the first pastry chef of the incubation series where she will be running the restaurant as an all-day cafe / bakery.

Drawing from a decade’s worth of experience in top fine dining restaurants in Sydney (such as the acclaimed Tetsuya’s and Sokyo) and, more recently, Mizumi at Wynn Palace in Macau, Kim will showcase her brand of clever yet playful creations that feature both sweet and savoury elements.

Organizer

PMQ Taste Kitchen

Facebook : @pmqtastekitchen
Instagram : @pmqtastekitchen

PMQ Taste Kitchen is Hong Kong’s first-ever F&B incubation programme, supported by F&B entrepreneurial icon Twins Kitchen. The goal of the programme is to nurture and encourage culinary talents to follow their culinary dreams by providing professional guidance and support. The unique programme will begin as a first-of-its-kind initiative to help young and creative food talents to realise their dreams and test their ideas while being connected to the right audience.

PMQ Taste Kitchen will be transformed into an exciting new restaurant, starring a different chef and a different dining concept every month. By offering a restaurant space, experienced staff and business guidance from Twins Kitchen, it is an experimental restaurant incubator for future culinary stars to realise their dreams of starting and running their own short-term restaurant.

The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashion by Met curator Andrew Bolton.

With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the collision of haute couture and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events hosted every year by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano) as well as a host of contemporary icons from Justin Bieber to Rihanna, the movie dives deep into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as fine art and how misunderstanding and appropriation exist across cultures.

Director : Andrew Rossi
Duration : 91 mins

With after-screening sharing.

Speaker

Colleen Yu (Founder and Principal, EX-R Consulting)

With a deep business background as a former management consultant at KPMG and a private wealth manager at Goldman Sachs, Colleen understands the motivations of consumers and corporations alike, and brings new levels of professionalism to the experiential marketing space. In 2010, Colleen founded EX•R Consulting to pursue her creative passions and offer comprehensive marketing and communication services to a wide range of retail, luxury brand, entertainment, and Fortune 500 clients.

Under Colleen’s leadership, EX•R has become the agency of record for many of the world’s leading brands, executing more than 200 campaigns and events in 15 countries. Her global network and pioneering vision led EX•R to expand its presence into the United States and throughout Asia, with a home base in Hong Kong.

Colleen is also very active in her charity work. She currently sits on the board of Make A Wish Hong Kong and Hagar International. She is also an active member of HK ballet as a member of the Guild and co-chairing fundraising activities.

Colleen is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Marketing and Information Technology. She is fluent in five languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, and Korean).

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Polly Ho (Co-founder, Loom Loop)

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING is a creative project where music meets motion pictures. Apart from screening the two titles from the project and their behind-the-scenes, two creatives involved will share their “Trial and Error” experiences and discuss possibilities of two art forms crossing over.

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Anton Fung (Drummer, tfvsjs)

Anton Fung graduated from The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in the UK, majoring in drums. He returned to Hong Kong in 2010 and participated in different performances. As a drummer, Anton joins different bands to reach different audiences, such as Mensheng (heavy music), tfvsjs (math rock) and Empty (pop music). Since 2013, he has been the accompanist for different singers in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including Coco Lee, Pakho Chau, Bibi Zhou, Kay Tse, Janice Vidal, Kary Ng, Jason Chan, Ng Yip Kwan, JW, Phil Lam, etc.

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Dan Fong (Digital Visual Artist and Visual Designer)

Dan Fong graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, and is currently a digital visual artist and visual designer. He is passionate about visual experiments on various media platforms all these years and has worked with many different creative units from theatre to popular music industry, including Zuni Icosahedron, Windmill Grass Theatre and W Theatre etc.

His works have been shown in many internationally toured events, and he began collaborating with various pop singers and taking part in the video/ visual design of their concerts since 2010, collaborating pop singers included Miriam Yeung, George Lam, Priscilla Chan, Pakho Chau, Hins Cheung, Edmond Leung, Endy Chow, Chochukmo, Joker Xue, Yoga Lin, Hebe Tan, Kay Tse, SHINE etc. He also started doing music video directing since 2014, current works include Ellen Loo’s Darling and Chochukmo’s 8.

Organizer

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING

Facebook : @ProjectKeepPushing
Instagram : @ProjectKeepPushing

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING is a project that focuses on the crossover between music and cinematography, produced by Anton Fung, drummer of tfvsjs and director Wong Chun. Together with other up-and-coming local directors including Wong Fei Pang, Lo Chun Yip, Annebell Chan, Dan Fong, Hayman Yip, Chan Hau Chun, Chui Chi Yin and documentary director Joshua Yiu, they exploit different cinematic shooting styles, live drum re-arrangements / recording, and document all that happens behind the scenes. They hope to transform six of tfvsjs’ songs and bring about a new visual and audio experience for their audience, as well as showcasing their full expedition behind this project.

Designers and businesses often encounter disputes relating to copyright, contract, licensing and sale of goods etc.. Is there an alternative way to resolve these conflicts other than long and expensive court battles?

“Decoding Mediation: Designing a Win-win Solution” will explain how mediation is able to resolve disputes effectively with greater satisfaction. It will comprise a drama on mediation, discussion by experienced mediators, and a sharing session by local designer Flora Leung on how mediation helped her to enforce her design rights.

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C.W. Ling / Yue Sze Hung, Beginla / Stephanie Cheung / Tang Cheuk Yan, Clement / Yam Cheuk Ling, Shirley / Ma So So, Josephine / Lam Wai Pan, Wilson / Nana Lui Lam Wing Kai, Isaac / May T.M. Chan / Sala Sihombing Stephanie Wong

Accredited Mediators in Hong Kong

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Flora Leung (Founding Director, Matter Matters)

Founding Director of Matter Matters; graduate of London College of Fashion, Cordwainers Accessory Design (2012), and Visual Communication, Birmingham City University (2004); one of “The Next Talents” named by Vogue in 2016.

Matter Matters is a Hong Kong-based brand, synonymous with innovative use of contrasting colours and geometric symmetry. Its design concept is influenced by Art Deco, Bauhaus and Post-modernist aesthetics from 80s Memphis. The originality and playfulness of the design of its handbags and accessories has earned wide coverage by international media such as WWD, L'Officiel, New York Times, Time Out, Vogue, Elle, Elle Décor, Nylon, Marie Claire, Now Fashion and Refinery29. Its products have been sold in Paris, London, New York and in Hong Kong at K11 Art Mall, Lane Crawford.

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Hong Kong Mediation Council

Facebook : @Hong-Kong-Mediation-Council-154673887902071
Website : http://www.hkiac.org/mediation

The Hong Kong Mediation Council is a division of The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), with mandate to promote the development and use of mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Asia.

The HKIAC is an independent non-profit institution established in Hong Kong since 1985 under Hong Kong law by businesses, professionals and the government to promote alternative dispute resolution in Asia. It is today one of the world’s leading dispute resolution organizations.

Think about how innovative designs happen, and who can bring innovative designs into our complex society?

DESIGN is a language and DESIGN is relation-building; this is why DESIGN has been an unparalleled tool for innovation and evolution.

The dialogue discloses how Japanese and Hong Kong designers cope with the complexity of the contemporary world through innovation and its corresponding process.

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Eisuke Tachikawa (CEO and Founder, NOSIGNER)

Facebook : @NOSIGNER
Website : http://nosigner.com/

NOSIGNER is a design firm based on the principle of “social innovation design”, or design that brings positive changes to society and the future. They have been working under the name NOSIGNER, which stands for “professionals who design intangible things”. Their works transcend typical design disciplines such as graphics, products, spatial design and the web, to provide comprehensive design on business models and branding.

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Shun Kawakami (CEO, artless Inc.)

Website : http://www.artless.co.jp/

artless Inc. is an independently owned global creative agency based in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. Founded by Shun Kawakami in 2001, artless focuses on art and design-based advertising and branding projects, and operates globally.

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Chris Cheung (Founder and Creative Director, XCEPT)

Facebook : @xex.com.hk
Website : http://xex.com.hk/

Chris Cheung Hon Him (artist name: h0nh1m) is an artist known for installation art and audiovisual performances, and whose artistic expression depends on electronic, sound, image and creative technology in new media.

He founded XCEPT (previously XEX) in 2008 and XCEED (a new media art group) in 2013, showcasing works worldwide in various international festivals and winning awards at Reddot, TDC, GDC11, A’ Design, Golden Pin, Design for Asia awards and New York Art Director Club Young Guns 11. In 2014 he was appointed as Artistic Director and Curator of the 1st HK-SZ Design Biennale and was invited to be a guest speaker at Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week in 2016.

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Otto Ng (Design Director, LAAB)

Facebook : @laabpro
Instagram : @LAABpro
Website : https://www.laab.pro/

Otto Ng studied architecture at HKU and MIT, and has worked in the UK, US and Italy where he designed smart cities and inventive architecture. Otto sees interdisciplinary teamwork as the driving force for innovation.

He cofounded LAAB in 2013, a laboratory comprising 36 architects, designers, makers, engineers, and sociologists. From public space and public art to transformative architecture and interior design, LAAB explores the relationship between people, nature and culture. Otto was named one of the “Young Guns” by the New York Art Directors Club in 2014 and was one of the “Young Game Changers Shaping Hong Kong’s Future” of Tatler’s Generation T in 2017.

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!

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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.

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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.

In this dialogue, four denim fashion designers from different backgrounds will discuss their design experiences with denim craft and design in the form of “Trial and Error”, the past and present of denim and their blue inspirations.

The dialogue is a prologue of the Hong Kong Denim Festival 2019 (HKDF), a 3-week cultural and design event that aims to promote denim culture, organised by Vocational Training Council (VTC) / Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI).

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Osmond Lee (Co-founder, Bleu•Kobo)

Osmond Lee graduated from the Department of Fashion & Textile of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He started his denim career in 2010, by working as a product developer at a denim garment factory. Lee then worked as a designer at a denim trading company which was owned by a Japanese senior denim washing specialist. In the past 8 years, he has been working with different internationally famous brands such as Evisu, Denham, Mastercraft Union, Kent & Curwen, etc.

In 2018, Lee and Ming Fan co-founded a workshop and their brand Bleu•Kobo.

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Janko Lam (Design Director, Classics Anew)

As the foundress of Classics Anew, Ms Janko Lam is well-known for her hybrid fashion pieces where the traditional meets the modern. After graduating from Caritas Bianchi College, Lam joined the Hong Kong Fashion Designers Association (HKFDA) and worked as a costume designer for stage and drama productions at TVB in 2008.

In 2010, Lam founded her first company, Mutt Museum Design Company Limited, and commenced a workshop at InnoCentre in Hong Kong.

In 2011, Lam won the championship of the EcoChic Design Award from a fashion design competition for Asia’s emerging design talents organized by REDRESS, a Hong Kong-based charity organisation which drives environmental sustainability in the fashion industry. As the champion, Lam interned at a top sustainable fashion brand in London.

In 2012, Lam collaborated with ESPRIT and launched the first local collection on recycled textile capsule. In February 2012, Lam participated in the “Fashion Visionaries” exhibition by invitation of HKFDA. Her showpiece was kept in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum after the exhibition.

In 2013, Lam was granted the “40 Under 40” (Fashion/Accessories) Award from Perspective magazine. Being actively engaged in the community, Lam has delivered seminars, participated in street shows, and given live demonstrations of her creation process in shopping malls. Her work has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, in Germany, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau, etc.

With her love and passion for Chinese costumes, the brand Classics Anew was conceptualised and launched in 2014. Lam subsequently started a retail shop with two partners at PMQ, a creative hub at SOHO Central, in the same year and kicked off her first online store in 2015. Lam is enthusiastic and devoted to her oriental fashion design, aiming at raising public interest in the Chinese heritage and modern aesthetics.

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Jason Lee (Founder, YMDH studios)

YMDH was established in 2018. Founding designer Jason Lee was awarded “Best Footwear Design Award” at the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers Contest in 2017. Jason collaborated with i.t. to produce a capsule collection for his “Kingdom of the Underground” collection.

Lee has been guiding his brand YMDH with a sense of individuality interweaving street fashion with oriental and historical graphics to redefine contemporary urban styles. The brand essence of YMDH rests on the journey of searching for infinite possibilities and novelties on the street. Lee advocates that fashion is more than just design; in YMDH, fashion is always an audacious explorer and reflector.

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Sonic Lam (Fashion Designer, Start From Zero / Vintage Lover & Collector)

Start From Zero is a street art group which has been promoting street art for 10 years.

Recently, Start From Zero has transferred street art into different kinds of design, such as interior design, graphic design and fashion design. Their “Happy Workers” love to wear denim and canvas because of their durability. Denim and canvas are always considered as the main materials for Lam’s designs.The originality of clothes is the foundation of Lee’s design, on top of that he is keen on exploring the possibility of denim.

Organizer

Hong Kong Design Institute

Facebook : @HongKongDesignInstitute
Instagram : @hongkongdesigninstitute
Website : http://www.hkdi.edu.hk/

The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is a leading design institution under the VTC Group. It provides high-quality education to cultivate knowledge and professionalism, and produces emerging talents who underpin the creative industries in Hong Kong.

With years of experience in design education, HKDI brings together the strengths of four design departments – Architecture, Interior and Product Design, Communication Design and Digital Media, Design Foundation Studies and Fashion and Image Design – to offer 20 design programmes.

Highly flexible in articulation and advanced education, HKDI offer students a three-year university degree pathway from a Higher Diploma to Bachelor degrees offered by reputable universities in the UK. HKDI adopts a “think-and-do” approach through its contemporary curriculum and active collaborations with local and international academic and industry partners. Students are given opportunities to acquire hands-on experience and participate in global exchange programmes to expand their horizons while enhancing their creative thinking and social sensitivity.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Our common perception of maps is that they are accurate and scientific, but in fact the act of mapping and its content can be speculative and creative. As James Corner puts it, “Mapping is perhaps the most creative act of any design process.” Artists, architects and designers usually use mapping as a tool to explore and represent social, economic and political values in the city and our urban life.

While the creative team is working on the first stage of “Revitalising Village through Art project” in Shunde of China, they would like to share with the audience their plan of conducting a creative research through mapping in the village and how they will end up developing a feasible yet innovative masterplan for its up-grade.

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Bong Yeung (Design Principal, littleurbanmountain)

Facebook : @littleurbanmountain
Website : https://www.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.

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Raymond Chan (Founder-Director, Crevice Design Ltd)

Raymond Chan is a Founder of Crevice Design. He received an Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree in Environment and Interior Design at PolyU in 2012 and 2014. During his studies, he was employed by his PolyU tutor and Assistant Professor, Manfred Yuen, as a designer in Groundwork Architecture Studio. He was involved in several social design projects including Wu Chi Qiao Bridge to China Project 2011 and 2012,Hawkerama - Carnival Workshop 2012, and ArtAlive @Park 2014.

Raymond has followed HKPolyU Assistant Professor Alvin Yip to co-curate the Annual Flagship Programme 2014 and 2015 organized by Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. He received a scholarship to study in Shanghai Tongji University.

Raymond has many innovative design ideas on sustainable interior and furniture design. He designed a series of showcases and displayed shelves which were made of up-cycling materials to propose and promote environmental protection to the society.

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Monti Lai (Founder, Farm Side Art Research Lab / Artist / Farmer)

Monti Lai is a local environmental artist whose art has a clear focus on the relationship between art and the environment. Her works range from site-specific environmental installation to drawing and participatory art. She is now based at Lai Chi Wo Village exploring the subject with farming practices (paddy rice planting in particular).

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Lai Sim Fong (Founder and Dramaturg, Artelier)

Lai Sim Fong graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Practice at University of Exeter (UK), learning from master Phillip Zarrilli in psycho-physical approach. She studied German, Cultural Studies and Art History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Freiburg University and UC Berkeley (USA). Lai has presented her work in Liverpool, Manchester and Poland.

She works as a dramaturg in theatre and contemporary dance. Recent works include Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s “Red” and “Attempts on her Life”; Hong Kong Arts Festival’s “Nook”. She was the dramaturg of Hong Kong International Blackbox Festival (WKCD/ HKREP). In 2018 Lai worked as the assistant to director of Rimini Protokoll to produce “Remote Hong Kong” for Tai Kwun.

Organizer

littleurbanmountain

Facebook : @littleurbanmountain
Website : https://www.littleurbanmountain.hk/

littleurbanmountain is a young design studio focusing on architecture, interior design and art in Hong Kong. Founded in 2017 to start a few self initiative projects related to sustainable design and social architecture, the studio has begun to create works from luxurious café, pavilion to public installation art. They try to gather people from different disciplines that enable interesting, experimental and visionary work to happen from big to small scale.

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films.

Then one day, his father donned a puppet — Lago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin — and asked, “What’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

Winner of Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award (Documentary) and Oscar nominee for Best Documentary.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Casts: Owen Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Ron Suskind
Duration: 92 min

With after-screening sharing.

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Bianca Lee (President, Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists)

Bianca is an artist, advocate, Registered Art Therapist (USA), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (USA) and Licensed Professional Counselor (USA). With 10+ years of practicing in the mental health field, she connects with a multitude of diverse populations. Bianca is the current president of the Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists and an honorary lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.

How can we introduce art and creative ideas to Hong Kong? MobArt Gallery is dedicated to connecting artists with the society. In this dialogue, MobArt and their collaborating artists will share their experiences of bringing art into the local community, and how art might survive in this city.

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Steph Chung (Founder, MobArt)

Steph Chung, a post-80, is the founder of MobArt creative agency, who graduated from the University of Oxford studying Economics & Management.

Started off as a “stranger” to the Art world to crawling galleries and art fairs in London/ Hong Kong/ globally, Steph has a different take on Art as an “outsider”. Because of this “outsider” status, it inspired her to start MobArt, with the objective of bringing art to the people, injecting art into our everyday life.

Juggling between her finance job and her art passion, she has not diminished a bit in her strive to bring Art to the local community and has continued this journey in the last 10 years.
MobArt will continue to elevate people’s interest and appreciation for Art by making it an integral part of everyday life.

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Travis Ying (Artist)

Ying Man Hon, Travis was born in Hong Kong since 1980s. Growing up in Hong Kong, Ying has completed his studies and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree majoring in Theatre Stage Design from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2015 and graduated from the Hong Kong Institute of Education majoring in Visual Arts in 2007. Ying is working as a freelance artist now whose expertise is in illustration and graphic design, theatre design and arts education.

Ying is devoted to visual arts education with 8 years of solid teaching experiences. In 2014, he was invited by the 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival Artists-in-Residence Programme to be the local artist who collaborated with Paper Cinema, renowned artists from UK to organize and execute art workshops with targeted secondary students. Ying used to organise and teach different art classes targeting people from youths to adults. He was the judge of an open comic competition for kids. Ying collaborated with different organisations in art-related projects including theatre stage design and visual arts. In 2014, Ying co-exhibited his work with other artists in Jockey Club Creative Arts Center.

Recently, he won the Best Graphic Cover Design of the Lenovo laptop computer competition and he is the illustration artist of Mingpao Smarties' Power English, by collaborating with Jeffrey CHAN, the author to introduce arts and cultures to primary school students.

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Neil Wang (Mural Artist and Illustrator)

Neil Wang is a mural artist and illustrator based in Hong Kong. He is a self-taught artist and begun his mural painting journey in 2017 and leave fashion visual merchandiser field at the same time.

Now he become a full-time freelancer and provide eye grabbing art works to his clients and lead the audiences to dive deep and get to know his story. He is deeply inspired by Japanese art, culture and collage art. His artworks are a combination of abstract flow of lines, patterns, textured collages and create illusion for type or lettering.

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Noble Wong (Founder, Noble Sketchbook)

Noble Wong is a Hong Kong illustrator, mural painter and urban sketcher. He graduated from PolyU with an MSc (with Distinction) in Multimedia Entertainment Technology.

He takes pleasure in sketching things around him, because they embody the shared culture of Hong Kong people. He established his illustration company Noble Sketchbook in 2015. Apart from commercial illustrations and murals, he has worked on community art projects including HKYAF’s “HK Urban Canvas” to illustrate the story of old shops through paintings of the shops’ shutters. In addition, he is working on a revitalisation project of Tai Kwun to illustrate the history of Tai Kwun and Hong Kong Police on the walls inside those beautiful buildings.

Organizer

MobArt Gallery

Facebook : @mobartgallery
Instagram : @about_mobart
Website : http://www.mobart.net

‘We are the bridge connecting artists with those who seek creative talents.’

MobArt strives to foster an environment that supports and nurtures creative talents. Their ambition is to promote art as a lifestyle and act as the bridge between artists and those who value and seek creativity.

MobArt started as a “mobile” gallery in 2008 curating art exhibitions in public spaces with the aim of elevating people’s interest and appreciation for art by making it an integral part of everyday life, which will in turn foster an environment that supports and nurtures creative talents.

They have since evolved into a platform, showcasing artists and acting as the bridge between creative talents and those who value and seek creativity - working collaboratively with private and corporate clients.
This year they have launched a new brand - Draw On Wall ( drawonwall.com ) which is an artist hub with a repository of creative ideas to inspire custom space designs. Their goal is to transform dull walls into an unique piece of art! Draw On Wall focuses on connecting artist with those who seek to fill their walls with life and colour.

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.

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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.

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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.

Urban myths about craftsmen:

“Good wine needs no bush. ”

“It’s impossible for a full-time craftsman to earn a living.”

Are they true or not?

Trial and Error Lab will look into the myths based on their observations of local young craftsmen and the creative industry.

Speaker

Wong Yuk Kuen (Senior Media Project Curator, Trial and Error Lab)

Organizer

Trial and Error Lab

Facebook : @trialanderrorHK
Instagram : @trialanderrorhk
Website : https://trialanderror.hk

Trial and Error Lab HK is a youth vocational development project organised by Breakthrough since 2016. The Lab encourages young people to explore possibilities for their careers and the future of our city by providing a lively coworking space, relevant trainings and other innovative events.

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.