Research on the Move: Dialogues with M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows

M+ and Design Trust are pleased to announce “Research on the Move,” an event bringing together eight M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows from 2015 to 2019. In this reunion, the research fellows based in Hong Kong and beyond will converse with Hong Kong–based practitioners who have been influential in exploring similar fields through a series of topic-orientated dialogues.

Research is fundamental to deepening and rethinking how the “designed” world came to be. The practice of research is continually shaped by evolving hypotheses, sites, perspectives, and evidence. These dialogues will reflect on how past inquiries have informed the fellows’ ongoing research trajectories, and how they resonate with the works of each practitioner. Organised to mark M+’s recent opening and Design Trust’s continued support, this event aims to stimulate further development in historical and practice-based research and reconsider the museum’s role in these endeavours.

Research on the Move:

Dialogues with M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows
June 25, 1—5:45pm HKT / 7—11:45am CEST

The event will take place at Grand Stair, M+ and livestreamed online via Zoom.

For more details and to register, visit here.

Dialogues: Reflecting on Urban Research in Hong Kong
Fan Lok Yi (2018 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Sampson Wong (2018 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Marisa Yiu (Co-founder and Executive Director of Design Trust)

Blank Slates from Macau to Japan
Thomas Daniell (2017 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Tatjana Crossley (Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Co-Founder of architectural and research practice ArchiTAG)

The Virtual Geographies of Hong Kong
Hugh Davies (2018 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Peter Nelson (Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts and Augmented Creativity Lab at Hong Kong Baptist University and Vice President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association)

The Creativity of Machine Intelligence
Fan Ling (2015 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Calvin Wong (Cheng Yik Hung Professor in Fashion at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and CEO and Centre Director of AiDLab)

Inventing Hong Kong’s Modernity through Exhibiting “Traditions”
Juliana Kei (2016 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Daniel Cooper (2016 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Charles Lai (Architectural historian and Co-founder of aona architects)

The Comeback of Brutalism
Oliver Elser (2019 M+ / Design Trust Fellow)
Bob Pang (Director and Co-founder of AaaM Architects)

Design Beyond “Authorship”?
Joseph Grima (2016 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
Siu King Chung (Associate Professor at the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Co-founder of Designs You Don’t Know What to Do With Association)

The Future of Tradition
Yasmin Tri Aryani (2019 M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow)
John Lin (Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong and Co-founder of Rural Urban Framework)

The event includes two reflection sessions moderated by M+ Curators of Design and Architecture Sunny Cheung and Shirley Surya.

The M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship was established in 2015, six years before the opening of M+, to support historians, practitioners, and curators from Hong Kong and beyond. It facilitates curatorial research into the histories and processes of design and architectural production in Hong Kong and the region. The fellows’ research, in turn,  informs M+’s approach in curating, collecting, and knowledge-sharing with our audiences.