Lecture: Evey Kwong [futurprimitiv]
Lecture and workshop as part of the design research project
‘Textile Practices at the Intersections of Product, Interior and Fashion Design’ by Prof. Ursula Zillig and Prof. Alexander Sahoo
As a designer and researcher, Evey Kwong provides an overview of her practice-based research, which focuses on the use of crafts as a tool to connect with people and the environments they cohabit. By challenging the formalistic single-discipline practice, she developed an autonomous learning methodology to reinvent new ways of practicing crafts with sensibilities that extend beyond material, technique and product design.
With her years of basket-making explorations between East and West, her works exhibit the value of diversity in understanding the process of making and how transcultural histories can be relevant to address the challenges of social polarization, the growing technological divide between humans and the natural world.
Evey’s work spans design research, exhibition making, hands-on workshops, writing and design commissions. Her work has been exhibited at museums and international design festivals such as the HOW&WOW BASK IT! [organized by Crafts Council Nederland for the Dutch Design Week], Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden and Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale.
She holds lectures and hands-on workshops at international art and design universities regularly.
From the week of 16th to 19th June, she will be giving a workshop, “BEYOND BASKETS” at HfK Bremen.
Biography
A designer and researcher. Evey Kwong’s work explores themes of craft-based technology by connecting with the origins of material knowledge, humans, and the environment. Through collaboration with craftspeople and experts from the arts, history, and ecology, Evey opens up possibilities for multidisciplinary dialogues.
Evey strongly values the historical perspective on designing and making things, which motivates the otherwise digitally oriented designer to actively practise crafts as a way of engaging with people and tradition. According to her, this added dimension deepens her creative work and enables her to translate ancient techniques to current times.
Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of European Cultures [DE], HOW&WOW BASK IT! [organised by Crafts Council Nederland for the Dutch Design Week] and Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden [DE].
To view further on her works, visit www.futurprimitiv.org
Contributors
- Evey Kwong