Co-Creation

As an important concurrent event of Business of Design Week, deTour 2014 intends to engage wider participation, including designers at PMQ, overseas and local designers and local community to bring awareness and value to design, arts and culture. Utilizing PMQ as the anchor site, young creative talents are free to express themselves in different forms and medium. Commercial operators in the neighborhood and other communities are encouraged to promote and celebrate creativity in design, arts and culture.

Co-Creation

Highlights

Writing on the Wall 3D Audiovisual Experience

Co-creator: AXO
We are pushing unique and innovative story-driven creative and plastering it across the city in events, parties and functions through the use of 3D projection-mapping, LEDs and other unique screen and display techniques.

Writing on the Wall 3D Audiovisual Experience

Exhibitions

Art in Design

Co-creator: Ambassadors of Design, Japan (AODJ)
Through this exhibition, we hope that visitors can discover the importance and future of development of art and design, and explore “artistic qualities” in modern “design”.
Participating designers include Daisy Balloon, Hideki Inaba, Masashi Kawamura, Masayoshi Kodaira, NAM, Shun Kawakami, Shuwa Tei, Wabisabi, Yuji Tokuda and Nosigner.

Nedda x Diamanti Per Tutti: “A Diamond only for me”

Co-creator: Nedda x Diamanti Per Tutti
Nedda’s adagio ‘seemingly simple shapes’ perfectly describes the collection. Feminine, timeless, subtle yet very technical designs whereby the diamond(s) are set inside two perfect circles so that only the proud owner can see them. Diamanti Per Tutti is an Antwerp (Belgium) based brand, offering fashionable diamond jewellery.

BOLON

Co-creators: BOLON & Swedish Beckmans College of Design
BOLON is a revolution in flooring. Used by some of the biggest names in international design, and developed deep in the forests of Sweden’s West Coast, BOLON gives architects, designers and developers unlimited potential to create inspiring, long-lasting flooring projects.

Coexist

Co-creator: Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong
Through drawings and photographic works, six creative artists take the audience through the cityscape and the artists’ inner spaces based on their unique life experiences. Their works invoke our imagination in interacting and coexisting with the city.

Design Pilot

Co-creator: Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
DESIGN PILOT is a platform to bridge the gap between social enterprises and designers, as designers and design service might not be immediately approachable for first-timers and outsiders.

Droog

Co-creator: Droog Hong Kong
This exhibition also display a collection of products inspired by the Rijksmueseum collection, which was a campaign which they release their complete 200,000 art pieces from their collection for the public to download. This shows how Droog modernize century old artworks.

Fermata

Co-creator: LAAB collaborating with Allan Au + Chailie Ho
We wish to liberate people from their hectic urban life by offering them a precious pause. Our art installation – “Fermata” – will engage the mood of people by orchestrating a tempo with a transforming mechanical structure, lighting and music. As its name depicts, the artwork will gradually slow down the tempo of environment and approach a moment of serenity.

From Ordinary to Extraordinary

Co-creator: Hong Kong Raffles School of Continuing Education, Raffles Hong Kong
Aiming to promote Design as a way to inspire sustainable living, the exhibit follows the theme of up-cycling to explore creative new ways of bringing value to discarded items. From conceptual chair design to product boards to garments, the showcase encourages the visitor to re-think sustainability.

Giraffe

Co-creator: InnoVentum
In close collaboration with Lund University, Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and École Nationale Supérieure des Technologies et Industries du Bois (ENSTIB) in Epinal, France, we have developed and patent-protected different wooden tower solutions for renewable energy installations.

LOOKING FOR A HOME

Co-creator: MCCM Creations & STORY
An interactive book installation in response to the excess in society – a contemplation of how book publishing and bookshops can be sustained – about one thousand books displayed & free for visitors.

The Circle of ____.

Co-creator: MobArt
Circle – a perfect shape that symbolizes inclusion, completeness and community.
MobArt has chosen this shape as the canvas for artists’ creativity. We hope to use this “Circle” as a crystal ball to explore what’s important to the artists. For MobArt, it is “The Circle of Artists”, as we strive to build and promote a community of creative talents.

Pimpin’ Dutch

Co-creators: Pimpin Dutch | Ton van Bragt, Danny Fang, Sjoerd Hoekstra, Michelle Huang, Sammy Lau, Oscar Venhuis, Esther van Wijck, Rika Wong
At the event, designers improvise to fix, change and add-value to these objects responding to object owners’ stories.

Yahoo Flickr x Jimmy Ming Shum “Hong Kong Girls” Photo Exhibition

Co-creator: Yahoo Hong Kong
The exhibition aims at capturing the core sentiments and love of each HongKonger for the city and paying tributes to the daring local pioneers in the creativity space both online and offline.

The imaginarium of Carl Linnaeus

Co-creator: Richard von Hofsten
Get inside the mind of the most famous swede in the world, the botanist Carl Linnaeus, and witness the floral world come to life into dreamy visions. By combining self-written poems with photos of human beings in different settings, von Hofsten is illustrating different flowers as a way to give life to Linneaeus legacy.

Creative Mart

Co-creator: Brand X
Creative Mart held in the courtyard of PMQ is the one stop destination for an incredible array of local and unique products. From gifts, to stationery, to housewares to clothes, there will be no shortage of excitement and discovery as we present some of Hong Kong’s most promising artistic talents.

Play Me If You Want Hong Kong Public Space Initiative

Inside the landscaped open space at the 4/F Plateau of PMQ, you are encouraged to pick a musical instrument like the piano or guitar and “co-create” your masterpiece with your friends, or even a newly-met stranger! We aim not only to enhance social interactions at public space, but also to provide you an opportunity to ignite your creativity to utilize public space with art and music.

Play Me If You Want Hong Kong Public Space Initiative

Design Dialogues

Art Licensing Dialogue

Co-creators: Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong Art Gallery Association
Speakers: Dr Priscilla Wong, Mr Yeung Tak Yin & Ms Anita Leung
Professionals will give an overview of the industry, analyse the recent market trends, share how designers could commercial their works through licensing, and introduce the essential of intellectual property rights protection in doing art licensing business.

Designers InBetween

Co-creators: Jonathan Ramalho & Oliver Lehtonen
Speakers: Jonathan Ramalho, Oliver Lehtonen, John Persson & Antti Hirvonen
A revealing documentary about the inner workings of the creative industry, its inhabitants and the challenges faced, set against the urban backdrop of Hong Kong.

The Fun of Designers & Creators Collaborating Beyond Borders

Co-creators: Ambassadors of Design, Japan (AODJ) x Jimmy Ming Shum
Speakers: Jimmy Ming Shum, Shun Kawakami
A dialogue between renowned Japan multi-disciplinary designer, Shun Kawakami and Hong Kong born photographer, Jimmy Ming Shum, in sharing their experience and fun of designs/creator collaborating beyond borders.

Presenting Hong Kong on the World Stage

Co-creators: Hong Kong Art Gallery Association
Speakers: Johnson Chang, Doryun Chong, Cosmin Costinas, Adrian Wong
How Hong Kong has been represented internationally so far and how Hong Kong art structures can contribute for a continuous and better representation.

IMperfect Creativity

Co-creators: Art with Disabled Association (ADA) Hong Kong
ADA artists speakers: Kevin Cheng, Vincy Leung & Apple Tong
Guest speakers: Dr. Chan Lai Kiu, Samantha Li & Prudence Mak
We all born equal, the language of art transcends all boundaries and difference to soothe the human heart and enjoy the rich legacy of beauty.

Social Innovations

Co-creators: BODW x Designed by HK
Speakers: Eddy Yu, Dylan Kwok and June Kimberly Lau
The design dialogue will explore design thinking that focuses on meeting social needs, as well as design innovations that improve the livelihood of the people and the environment. The speakers will also look at innovative design that attempts to offer solutions to problems of mankind and to possibly change the world.

Learning from Completed Heritage Revitalisation Projects in Hong Kong

Co-creators: Hong Kong Institute of Architects Heritage & Conservation Committee, American Institute of Architects Hong Kong Chapter and Royal Institute of British Architects Hong Kong Chapter
There are valuable lessons for the heritage conservation and revitalization projects in development and in the pipeline to learn from the completed projects and the aim of interactive knowledge sharing forum is to encourage the transfer of knowledge between the different stakeholders – owners/operators, designers and users of heritage buildings in Hong Kong.

A point of Graphic and Fashion The fashion design by a graphic designer

Oganiser: It Knit (Design Talk)
Speaker: SHOGO KISHINO

Sweden Dialogue

Speakers: Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Lars Mattiasson, Torsten Schenler & Martin Hallberg

Sweden Dialogue

Speakers: Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Lars Mattiasson, Torsten Schenler & Martin Hallberg

Workshops

Art Loop

Co-creator: HKAGW
During the workshop student will select the everyday object and work with their classmate to create a graffiti to fill up the whole room, the project will involve with camera and video, at the same time there will be an introduction of art history.

The Material Playground

Co-creator: THE FABRICK LAB.
Elaine Ng Yan Ling, also known as the ‘techno fairy’ by Elle Decor, founder of THE FABRICK LAB, brings together textiles, electronics, biomimicry, interiors and installations.

Swiss Art Van Gogh Workshop and Exhibition

Co-creator: Swiss Art Studio
Life story of Van Gogh by local young artist and exhibition of Impresionissm style student works inpired by Van Gogh.

Table Talk

Co-creator: School of Design and Craft at the University of Gothenburg (HDK)
Table-talk aims to join HDK, Hong Kong based creatives, professionals, students and visitors at one table to share food and thoughts around design and HDK. The idea is to encourage an honest open-ended exchange of thoughts in a relaxed environment.

Joint Wooden Structures

Co-creator: School of Design and Craft at the University of Gothenburg (HDK)
Coiling is a basketry technique that is used globally, and can be done with almost any material and without tools.By combining these unwanted materials with a universal basketry technique this problem can be addressed and also generate an income for the communities affected by this.