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Dr Ju-chen Chen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarly interests cover a range of topics and geographic locations: female migrant workers in China and their attempts to obtain better housing for their sons; Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and their participation in beauty pageants as a way to achieve their dreams; and independent musicians and music event organisers from Hong Kong and Taiwan and their alternative lifestyles. […]

Miki Ho is an illustrator based in Hong Kong. Her Propaposter series about the local community, featuring playgrounds, street markets and street food, has been published by the local independent press, Artiquette Press, since 2015.

Mr Albert Chan is an experienced textile specialist with a long history of working in the textile industry. With a deep knowledge of materials, yarns, fabrics and traditional and digital printing, he is an active researcher on textile materials and fashion trends, as well as on innovative materials and finish treatments. He is currently an Advisor to the Mill 6 Foundation Limited and a business consultant of the ADAM Arts Creations Limited, a social enterprise established by Arts with the […]

Edith Cheung Edith Cheung juggles her time between commercial and self-initiated projects as a textile catalyst. She is interested in all textile-related matters, ancient and modern, East and West. After returning to Hong Kong from New York and Europe in the late 1980s, she started working as a costume designer in the film industry. At the 27th Golden Horse Award, Cheung was awarded Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction for her work in Director Yim Ho’s Red Dust. She […]

The CHAT sewing team is currently composed of a retired paper pattern master and a sewing worker. They are committed to the development of textile creation and co-learning, and are a key element of CHAT’s community and co-learning programmes. For many years, they worked in textile factories and witnessed the rise and fall of the textile and clothing industry. The paper pattern master once expressed, ‘After the decline of the textile industry, we can hardly find a place to apply […]

Kwok Hang Lin (Auntie Hang) worked as a sewing lady for 46 years. Her first job was working in an electronics factory when she was 11 years old. After working for a few months, her mother encouraged her to work at a garment factory instead. She excelled in using different types of sewing machines, and her years of experience enabled her to handle special designs and challenging requests with ease. She treated every production process as a learning opportunity, not […]

Founded in 2010, Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design. Their work addresses complex urban situations, and spans housing, workspace, cultural infrastructure and public space. They create social, economic and organisational models as well as buildings, and engage in design projects from the scale of furniture to the scale of the street. Their attention to detail and imaginative approach to re-use is typified in their work in the Granby […]