Dates: 1–10 December 2017
Companies: PMQ; Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC)
Hong Kong’s most anticipated cultural event returned this year with deTour 2017, a festival celebrating creative expression at PMQ, the heart of Hong Kong’s creative community. Every year, the event runs concurrently with Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week (BODW). Kicking off with an opening ceremony on 30 November, the annual 10-day festival showcased Hong Kong as an international creative hub, featuring interactive installations and exhibitions, workshops and design dialogues.
While works of art and design are typically intended to be appreciated in their completed, perfected state, deTour 2017’s programme, selected by curator Shin Wong, explored the often overlooked beauty that lies in the imperfect process of creation—the harmony of chaos. The event brought together some of the most forward-thinking minds in the field of design to look at the world from a different point of view, and in doing so, inspire the public to do the same.
The innovative work of more than 20 groups of designers displaying the theme of Harmonious Chaos included a massive 14-metre-high interactive LED wall from Hong Kong-based design collective Bloom, a jungle of giant paper seeds sculpted by artist Pauline Yau, a fantasy racetrack designed by floral artist Jennifer Chung, and the Ecomax-sponsored Kongcrete exhibition—a series of Graphic Concrete designs contributed by nine industry heavy hitters.
