Am 9. Dezember, 18 Uhr, wird die Designerin Evey Kwong im Rahmen der Kompaktwoche „BEYOND BASKETS“ einen Vortrag über ihre praxisbasierte Forschung halten. Der Vortrag findet auf englisch statt.

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 9-13th December, she will be giving a workshop, “BEYOND BASKETS” at the design fundamentals.