Siu King-chung is an art & design commentator, an installation artist, an independent curator and is actively involved in arts policy and art\/design curriculum development in Hong Kong. He is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who also leads the BA (Hons) Art and Design in Education Programme.<\/p>\n
Siu researches and writes on art and design education, information design, indigenous creativity and vernacular design, upcycling design, material & visual culture, theme parks, community engagement and curatorial practices. His writings appear in various local newspapers, magazines and international journals.<\/p>\n
Siu co-founded a curatorial collective, Community Museum Project (http:\/\/www.hkcmp.org\/) since 2002, which endeavours to visualize and disseminate local knowledge and practices in form of exhibitions, publications, cultural tourism and urban pedagogy projects.<\/p>\n
Siu produces experimental exhibitions and often participates in local and international creative and visual culture projects. For many years, he has been exploring ways to initiate collaborations among students, teachers, designers and artists through organizing exhibitions and publishing projects. This has given him chances to explore and develop possible forms and strategies for exhibition design, installation display, publication design and alternative museum practices.<\/p>\n
2002 Designs You Don\u2019t Know What to Do With: A Book About (the meanings of) Design and Its Alternatives<\/p>\n
2004 Object of Demonstration<\/p>\n
2005 Street as Museum: Lee Tung Street\u00a0as You have never seen Before<\/p>\n
2007 In Search of Marginalized Wisdom:\u00a0Sham Shui Po Craftspeople<\/p>\n
2010 From Trash to Treasure: Designing\u00a0Upcycling Systems<\/p>\n
2010 The Museum of Complaints: Anyang\u00a0Public Art Project<\/p>\n
2011 Riverside Scene of Local Agriculture<\/p>\n
2012 Lesser Designs<\/p>\n
2013 Street as a Museum: Visualizing Indigenous Trades in Cijin, Tainan<\/p>\n
2014 What about Crafts?<\/p>\n
2016 Objection! Protest by Design,\u00a0Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein<\/p>\n
2016 Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times\u00a0Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw<\/p>\n