SO-IL and Michael Young are among over 130 architects and designers who have contributed to the Design Trust's exhibition of homemade designs produced during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Design Trust: Critically Homemade exhibition in Hong Kong features over 70 prototypes made at home by architects and designers from around the world.
Each of the designs is the result of a brief set by Hong Kong's Design Trust, a charity that supports creative projects in Hong Kong and the surrounding region, which challenged designers to design and make a prototype from home in less than three weeks.
The brief specified that the designs should offer solutions to current social, educational or environmental needs and fit in the palm of someone's hand. Designers were also encouraged to collaborate where possible. Design Trust: Critically Homemade takes place at Soho House in Hong Kong
"The desire to make things with our hands is universal and a significant human expression," said Design Trust co-founder and exhibition curator Marisa Yiu.
"Restricted by the necessary social distancing during an unprecedented pandemic, many designers have expressed a need to connect, collaborate and create."
"As a perpetual optimist, I believe design can enact positive change," she added. "This organic platform showcases the humbling power of the community to come together to support each other."
The prototypes are on show at Soho House in Hong Kong from 21 September to...