HONG KONG: CONSTANT CHANGE
Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is pushing the city’s status as a creative powerhouse as it attends Milan Design Week 2014. The renowned, international event, taking place from 8-13 April 2014, will promote HKDC’s cutting edge Hong Kong: Constant Change exhibition, featuring 60 or so designers, in particular young design talents and their design projects, representing a distinct constellation illuminating a sustainable design cosmography for the future of Hong Kong.
Held at the famous La Triennale di Milano in Milan, the Hong Kong: Constant Change exhibition is a highly anticipated event for many of our city’s prominent designers and will showcase Hong Kong’s design power on the international stage.
Organised by Hong Kong Design Centre and major-sponsored by Create Hong Kong, the Hong Kong: Constant Change exhibition reflects the unique influences that have catapulted Hong Kong to the forefront of Asian and international design. Indeed, as a global city with a rich local tapestry, Hong Kong is shaped by its distinctive history and culture, where for many decades change has been the only constant. The Hong Kong design community has long embraced this unique positioning and unprecedented opportunity within Asia and China. Adding to that is the city’s cultural diversity, density, state of flux, contrast between modernity and tradition, and the East and the West, which continues to be at the forefront of its creative output. The city’s distinct design cosmography continues to evolve and makes it one of the most exciting hubs of innovative creativity in Asia.
“This exhibition brings our uniquely diverse design talents to the world and will put Hong Kong in the international spotlight alongside other global design powerhouses. It demonstrates how change has propelled our creative inspiration and influenced all aspects of design, which in itself also serves to propel further changes,” explained exhibition curator Nille Juul-Sørensen, the award-winning architect and veteran to Hong Kong’s design and creative industries.
Hong Kong: Constant Change exhibition will offer a multimedia experience that brings to life Hong Kong’s design edge and heritage, with large video walls showing footage of Hong Kong’s unique lifestyle and articulating major influencers on the city’s designers. Part and parcel of the exhibition experience is a dedicated smartphone app feature, allowing people to continue experiencing the power of Hong Kong design even after the exhibition has ended. Adding to its uniqueness, the exhibition will showcase Hong Kong’s different design disciplines, including Architecture, Art Tech, Communication, Creative Ecologies & Education, Fashion, Interior & Home, Hong Kong/International, Street, System, Tradition/Modern, as well as Young.
Among the many other unique attributes of the exhibition, it further excels the networking between Hong Kong and the international design and business community. “Hong Kong: Constant Change is unique in that it is a window for Hong Kong designers to showcase collectively the metropolitan’s design power to international and business connections around the world. The innovative presentations by the young and up-and-coming designers from Hong Kong will also take place to show to the international audience the future of Hong Kong design,” said Victor Lo, Chairman of Hong Kong Design Centre.
Of all the shortlisted designers/design projects, the Young designer section will feature some of the most promising young design talents in Hong Kong, including MIRO (Rony Chan, winner of the 2013 CreateSmart Young Design Talent Award), Stickyline, Chris Cheung, Goodss Passion , Genic Eyewear by Emily Tai and Gobi Chui, I’mperfect by Hung and Eddy, Kevin Cheung, as well as Pill & Pillow, Amenpapa, The Yesterday Skin, and OpenUU and much more.
