Upgrade Yourself: Process | Interaction & Play with Hong Kong Design History Network

In this 90-min workshop, HKDHNet members Janice Li, Juliana Kei, Mina Song and Sunnie Chan will share their individual career routes working within design research, curation, academia, and public institutions. The team will share how HKDHNetwork formed, the importance of collaboration and their focus on the design histories and material culture of Hong Kong.

Janice, Juliana, Mina and Sunnie will take us though a virtual play session with their interactive site, Sandtable, which uses the basis of storytelling to reconstruct the resonance experienced from Hong Kong. Captured in sand, visitors’ written strokes will be projected in the installation, forming an archive of resonance on site and online.

In this session, Janice, Juliana, Mina and Sunnie will be covering topics around:

• Their individual journeys into the arts, and creative industries, through design research, and curation.
• Collective thinking and how to build an international network.
• The collaborative process of developing Sandtable from conception to realisation, and the importance of narratives and storytelling.
• A virtual walk through the online Hong Kong Pavilion, and a chance for you to play through the chatroom facility.

London Design Biennale is a global gathering of the world’s most ambitious and imaginative designers, curators, and design institutes. Es Devlin is Artistic Director and has chosen Resonance as the theme, which countries, cities, and territories will respond to in their installations and presentations across Somerset House.