Hong Kong: Creating a Sustainable Creative Industries Together
Thursday 18 January —
12:00
- 12:45
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
Our city’s character, resilience and dynamism are what underpin the business vitality of Hong Kong’s vibrant and entrepreneurial creative industries. We will explore how sustainable design principles can be integrated into our practices as we reconsider our cultures, resources and lifestyles. By fostering an exchange of ideas and expertise, we aim to spark fruitful partnerships and collaborations among the vibrant creative industries of Hong Kong, France and across Europe.
Organiser: PMQ Management Co. Ltd
Lead Sponsor: CreateHK
Supporting Organisation: Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Participants
Amy ChowCurator - Creative Mosaic
Dennis CheungDirector - Studio RYTE
Xavier TsangDirector - BeCandle
Amy Chow
Curator - Creative Mosaic
Amy Chow, who trained in creative hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Rome, is an interdisciplinary design expert, academic, writer and connoisseur. As curator, she has spearheaded numerous critically acclaimed design exhibitions both locally and internationally, notably Creative Hong Kong (2007), presented in Vancouver, Milan, London, New York and Seoul, and six-month-long Creative Ecologies of Hong Kong (2010) at the Shanghai World Expo. Confluence 20+ (2017), a series of monumental exhibitions, was a blueprint of Hong Kong’s artistic environment, which travelled to Milan, Hong Kong, Seoul and Chicago. Re-edit (2020) was a new and exciting showcase for local design talents, acknowledging and nurturing their creativity and ingenuity. The Renewed Creativity (2022-2023), launched while the world revives in 2022, not only featured objects, but also the ideas, services, human experiences and facilities our communities need. All these expositions confirm Chow’s curatorial and artistic direction, which focuses on the visual culture and language of Hong Kong and Asian design through material innovation, creative processes and collaboration, and craftsmanship.
Dennis Cheung
Director - Studio RYTE
Studio RYTE - pronounced right - is a Hong Kong-based design studio of architects and product designers who generate powerful designs through interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations. They pay particular attention to detail, and identify potential materials and ways of fabrication as well as different spatial practices so as to make a breakthrough in design and create unique and desirable experiences. The founder, Dennis Cheung, who currently teaches Design+ at The University of Hong Kong as an adjunct assistant professor, is a graduate of The University of Hong Kong and MIT who focuses strongly on digital fabrication and material innovation and envisions a sustainable future for the built environment by marrying new technology with traditional craftsmanship. His awards include the American Institute of Architect’s Sustainable Design Award, Perspective’s 40 Under 40 Award, ARCASIA’s Young Architect Award, and Sina’s New Power Interior Design Award.
Xavier Tsang
Director - BeCandle
Having studied engineering and design in both Hong Kong and Italy, Xavier Tsang spent five years working in design, and then founded his own artisanal candle and fragrance brand BeCandle in 2012. Thanks to its unique fragrances, experimental approach, and international distribution, as well as the fact that all products are produced locally in its Sai Kung shop-factory complex with rigorous quality control and carefully sourced premium materials from all over the world, the brand is becoming recognised globally. Xavier received the 40 Under 40 Award from Perspective Magazine and a Young Design Talent Special Mention Award of DFA Young Design Talent Award from the HKDC in 2013, and since then BeCandle has been invited to collaborate with several well-known international brands. BeCandle also exhibits at the Fuorisalone Milan Design Week, Maison&Objet Paris, DMY International Design Festival, Berlin, Tokyo Designers Week, Bangkok Design Week and The Cheongju Handcraft Biennale.