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

June 25, 2022, 1pm

“Research on the Move,” an event bringing together eight M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows from 2015 to 2019, has been announced by M+ and Design Trust. Through a series of topic-oriented dialogues, research fellows from Hong Kong and abroad will talk with Hong Kong–based practitioners who have been influential in exploring relevant subjects.

Deepening and reconsidering how the “designed” universe came to be requires research. Hypotheses, sites, viewpoints, and evidence change with time, influencing research practice. These discussions will focus on how previous inquiries have influenced the fellows’ current research plans, as well as how they relate to each practitioner’s work. This event intends to encourage future progress in historical and practice-based research, as well as examine the museum’s position in these endeavors, in honor of M+’s recent opening and Design Trust’s sustained support.

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)