Exhibition Curation
HOW TO PUT HERITAGE DISTRICTS ON THE MAP?
We tell the story of place through inclusive events, engaging exhibitions and digitals tools, using heritage as a tool for economic development and city competitiveness.
Events & Exhibitions
Foot Traffic
Neighbourhood Dialogues
Media Coverage
STORIES OF CHINATOWN
Sustainable Tourism Hub, Chinatown, Yangon, 2019
- Partners: Sustainable Tourism Hub / Turquoise Mountain / Hla Day
- Project: One-week pop-up exhibition showing portraits of 30 residents in Yangon’s Chinatown and a community sharing session
- Audience: 200 local residents, 2,000 social media following
SPIRIT OF OLD COLOLMBO
Galle Literary Festival, Galle, 2019
- Partner: Colombo Heritage Collective
- Project: 3-day pop-up exhibition at Art Trail showing maps, puzzles, portraits and games highlighting the tangible and intangible heritage in four of Colombo’s historic neighbourhoods, Pettah, Fort, Cinnamon Gardens and Slave Island
- Audience: 1,000 festival visitors, 3,000 social media following
PEOPLE OF COLOMBO
Dutch Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2018
- Partner: Colombo Heritage Collective
- Project: One-weekend pop-up exhibition of 40 resident portraits, maps, puzzles and games highlighting the tangible and intangible heritage in four of Colombo’s historic neighbourhoods, Pettah, Fort, Cinnamon Gardens and Slave Island
- Audience: 200 local residents, 5,000 social media followers
VIVA SAI WAN
Little Creatures Brewery, Hong Kong, 2018
- Partners: Caritas MCSK Community Centre
- Project: 1-month exhibition showcasing history of Sai Wan, together with local residents & shop owners’ stories at the launch of iDiscover Kennedy Town App&Map
- Audience: 100 local residents at opening, 2,000+ viewership
STORIES OF SAI WAN ESTATE
Little Creatures Brewery, Hong Kong, 2018
- Partners: Caritas MCSK Community Centre / One Bite Design Studio
- Project: 1-month pop-up exhibition showcasing Sai Wan Estate’s residents’ stories, launched with a storytelling session
- Audience: 50 local residents at opening, 2,000+ viewership
HK NEIGHBOURHOODS
Little Creatures Brewery, Hong Kong, 2017
- Partner: One Bite Design Studio
- Project: 1-month exhibition showing illustrated neighbourhood maps by 10 different individual artists in Hong Kong
- Audience: 50 locals at opening, 2,000+ viewership
A LITTLE EXHIBITION
Little Creatures Brewery, Hong Kong, 2017
- Partners: Little Importance / One Bite Design Studio
- Project: 1-month pop-up exhibition curated by local artists Little Importance showing hand drawn illustrations of living heritage in the city’s older neighbourhoods.
- Audience: 100 young creatives at opening, 2,000+ viewership
CITY MOMENTS
Little Creatures Brewery, Hong Kong, 2017
- Partners: StoryTeller / One Bite Design Studio
- Project: 1-month pop-up exhibition curated by StoryTeller, showing art works of 16 illustrators in HK
- Audience: 150 young creatives at opening, 2,000+ viewership
STORIES OF SYP
Magic Lanes, Hong Kong, 2018
- Partners: Caritas MCSK Community Centre / Magic Lanes Community Design Studio
- Project: 2-week street exhibition on Sheung Fung Lane in Sai Ying Pun, showcasing stories of 18 craftsmen & their tools in the neighbourhood
- Audience: 500+ audience
IDISCOVER CHIANG MAI
Chiang Mai Design Week, 2017
- Partner: Chiang Mai Creative City
- Project: Award exhibition to showcase the iDiscover Chiang Mai mapping project
- Audience: 100 visitors
MADE IN HONG KONG
Maritime Museum, Hong Kong, 2015
- Client: Hong Kong Maritime Museum/ HSBC
- Project: Audio visual portraits of six traditional Hong Kong tradesman as part of a 6-month exhibition in Hong Kong Maritime Museum ‘Made in HK; our city our stories’.
- Audience: 6,000+ visitors
HK HERITAGE REVITALISED
Hong Kong Jockey Club, 2014
- Client: Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Hong Kong
- Project: On-day 8-panel exhibition at the occasion of an International Heritage Conference organised by HK Jockey Club
- Audience: 1000 academics, developers and government officials
ART IN THE CITY
City Hall, Yangon, 2016
- Client: Cities Development Initiative for Asia / Asian Development Bank
- Partners: Yangon City Development Committee / Yangon Heritage Trust / The Strand / Institut Francais / British Chamber of Commerce / Association of Myanmar Architects / Jardines
- Project: One-weekend pop-up exhibition in Yangon City Hall of art (poetry, paintings, textiles, sketches) inspired by Yangon’s historic streetscape at the occasion of the Heritage Works Festival
- Audience: 800 local residents, 5000 social media followers
HERITAGE WORKS
Jain Temple, Yangon, 2016
- Client: Cities Development Initiative for Asia / Asian Development Bank
- Partners: Yangon City Development Committee / Yangon Heritage Trust / The Strand / Institut Francais / British Chamber of Commerce / Association of Myanmar Architects / Jardines
- Project: One-weekend pop-up exhibition in renovated temple of 10 case studies of privately initiated successful adaptive re-use projects in Yangon at the occasion of the Heritage Works Festival
- Audience: 400 local residents
