To engage the wider public with concepts related to design and celebrate good designs and innovations during the Business of Design Week (BODW) and deTour period. A number of events, in partnership with different brands, will take place throughout Hong Kong to ensure that the creative spirit is felt citywide.
Expanding upon the success of last year’s inaugural series, the 2017 discussion forum will be titled “Fabpublic! – Talking about Textile, Community and Public Space.” Internationally renowned artists, designers, textile specialists, curators, scholars and cultural practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and expertise will gather in Hong Kong to discuss the role of the community within contemporary living, exploring the value and impact that textiles, and its related production, can bring to traditional “brick and mortar” neighbourhoods. Concurrently, speakers will engage in and learn about the challenges in energising and reactivating communities through art and textiles.
Keynote lectures will be headlined by acknowledged Spanish designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón, Founder of PET Lamp, an upcycling anthropological project accentuating preservation of craft knowledge and tradition; and Dutch Senior Architect Aura Luz Melis, Partner of Inside Outside. Luz Melis is also a tutor of Interior Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague since 2010.
Featuring leading voices from around the world, including speakers from Goldsmiths, University of London, Bluecoat (UK), ArtEZ University of the Arts (Netherlands), TextielMuseum (Netherlands), ZeroStation (Vietnam), Policy for Sustainability Lab at The University of Hong Kong (HK), Lingnan Univeristy (HK) and others, the stellar line-up will collectively confer about the future of textiles.
http://mill6.org.hk/winter-program-techstyle-series-20-2017_2/