Design Trust Community Tours Open House Hong Kong Special Edition

Saturday, April 26th 3pm – Stanley Neighborhood tour led by Sampson Wong

Sunday, April 27th 3pm - Stanley Neighborhood tour led by Sampson Wong

Saturday, May 10th 10:30am - St. Stephen’s College tour led by Kevin Mak, Charles Lai & Connie Maoshan

Saturday, May 10th 3pm - Stanley Neighborhood tour led by Sampson Wong

Sunday, May 11th 3pm - Stanley Neighborhood tour led by Zheng Zhou

Saturday, May 17th 3pm – Ma Hang tour led by Rico Samuel Diedering

Saturday, June 7th 10:30am - St. Stephen’s College tour led by Kevin Mak & Connie Maoshan

Saturday, June 7th 3pm - Stanley Neighborhood tour led by Sampson Wong

Saturday, June 14th 3pm - Ma Hang tour led by Rico Samuel Diedering

*Please check in at 1F Design Trust Collaborative Space of Murray House, Stanley Plaza, 15min before the tour starts.

“The Art of Transformation” explores spatial constructions and interactions of design and architecture to re-imagine, transform perspectives of city heritage and the culture of nature. Situated in Stanley called “Chek Chue” in Cantonese, a coastal town located on the peninsula of Hong Kong Island in the Southern District with beaches, historic piers, to the popular annual dragon boat festival, heritage monuments and the seaside culture of Hong Kong. This natural context, forms the beginning of a unique programmatic and research-driven learning programme to inspire and gather for community collaboration. DESIGN TRUST FUTURES FESTIVAL 2025: “THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION” collaborates with over 60 designers, artists, architects and curators, over a three-month programme at Murray House, Stanley Plaza where the 19th Century Victorian-era building, fronted by Blake Pier and Ma Hang Park, sets the stage for new perspectives on material ecologies, ocean connectivity that links the 263 islands of Hong Kong. Five key exhibitions and multiple public space installations, features lightweight interventions throughout the historic building to echo the Stanley waterfront, and its environs, as a space for dialogue to speculate on the future of spaces, urbanism and creative discovery.

By Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director of Design Trust)

March, 2025

DESIGN TRUST FUTURES FESTIVAL 2025: “The Art of Transformation” is a new micro festival where Design Trust researchers, scholars, global partners to innovative designers, participate in and share further their ongoing work, where small scale site specific commissioned works around themes of “Exceptional Transformations” of the historic site Murray House at Stanley Plaza, a 3-storey Victorian style building with architectural significance and its extraordinary heritage and natural context enlivens conversations on the public realm. Curated by Marisa Yiu (Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director) with Zheng Zhou (Head of Programmes/ Associate Curator), this new initiative is conceptualized to shape, test ideas and speculate on the future of spaces, urbanism and the role of creativity, as we respond to global conversations around sustainability, placemaking, role of tourism to culture and heritage of Hong Kong within the Greater Bay Area, and international context, in positive and impactful ways.

Opening Date and Hours:

March 29th – June 18th 2025

Wednesday – Thursday: 2 – 6pm,

Friday: 2-9pm,

Saturday: 11am-9pm,

Sunday: 11am- 6pm.

Closed on Public Holidays unless announced for special programmes. Please refer to website for more details.

Special Exhibition Opening Hours on Dragon Boat Festival day, public holiday.

Saturday, May 31st 2025

11 – 7pm

Check-in via Reception at Venue 1B (Design Trust Collaborative Space)

About Design Trust (designtrust.hk)

Design Trust was established in 2014 by Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, a registered charity in Hong Kong since 2007, as a grant funding and community platform. Design Trust supports creative projects that develop expertise, build research initiatives and content related to Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Working across a multiplicity of design disciplines from graphics, media, architecture to the built environment, Design Trust aims to actively accelerate creative research, design and development of meaningful projects that advocate for the positive role of design.

Lead Organiser

Design Trust

Lead Venue Sponsor and Programme & Exhibition Co-sponsor

Link Asset Management Limited