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YIP, Alvin

YIP, Alvin (Gallery)

Director of JCDISI

AADipl.

Research Area:

Alvin researches across the fields of:

1) Design with social relevance, social value, social impact, and societal change

2) Exhibition, Curatorship and the Biennales

3) Cultural production & Creative industry

4) Pearl River Delta- Public space, Architecture, Urbanism, Metropolitanization

http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/web/Research/RICE_Lab

His recent curatorial works include:

. IntenCities (Helsinki,1999)

. Farm-Cell-Incubator (London,2000)

. Plurale (Rome,2003)

. Spazi Aperti (Rome,2004)

. Roma.Play (Istanbul,2005)

. Urban Trilogy《城戲三幕後》(Hong Kong,2005)

. Third Horizon《新地平線上》 (Hong Kong,2005)

. Traces & Threads: transforming our community heritage《線、索》 (Hong Kong,2006)

. Vice Versa - displacing acts, lives and thresholds of a hyper city《反之亦燃城市越位》(Venice/Hong Kong,2006)

. Reflections from Public Participation《反反》(Hong Kong,2008)

. HK Architects in China《筑》(Shanghai, 2007)

. Tangible Traces《著迹》(c/o NAi, Hong Kong,2009)

. Response (Hong Kong,2009)

. China Becomings 《潛力量》(Hong Kong,2009)

. Detour on the Beach (Hong Kong,2009)

. Stamps (Hong Kong,2010)

. 10 speculations from Asia (London,2010)

. China Becomings II《潛力量 II》(Hong Kong,2010)

. Urban Apps- Strelka in Hong Kong (Hong Kong,2010)

. Detour in the Prison (Hong Kong,2010)

. Wan Chai Visual Archive (Hong Kong,2011)

. 10 speculations from China (Bilbao,2011)

. 60 sqm. (Berlin,2011)

. Rice Fields (Moscow,2011)

. Researching RICE Lab (Taipei,2011)

. Planet D (Hong Kong,2011)

. De-Mo-City (Cologne,2012)

. Hong Kong Scenes (Berlin,2012)

. Disorientation (Cologne,2012)

. Fashion Guerilla (Paris,2013)

His recently completed and ongoing researches include:

. The Asian Biennale: researching micro-scenarios for a creative Randstad 《亞洲雙年展：微觀珠三角創意城市圈》

. Baseline survey of current Biennales, Design fairs and Expositions in East Asia (Phase I)

. Displacements: Hong Kong Environment and Interior Designers in China, 1979-2009

. Inter/faces: Tactics and Representations of National Pavilions at World Expo 2010

. Wan Chai Visual Archive: synergizing cultural hospitality, community arts and urban redevelopment

. Fashion and Lifestyle Design Archive: Creative Redevelopment of Cheung Sha Wan

. 12 Architectural and Interior cases (in Very Hong Kong, John Heskett ed.)

His recently supervised student design theses include:

. Slow frame- a 26km urban interface

. Treeum- natural heritage in Wan Chai

. Game commune- charity casino for active ageing

. Social kitchen- a housewife network

. Backlane Commune- the neglected 40,000m

. Zhou Zheng Yuan 2.0

. Night Out- the mobile community cinema

Area of Expertise :

Exhibition, Biennale, Curatorship, Architecture, Public Space, City design, Urbanism, Model, Cultural and Creative Industry, Pearl River Delta

Profile :

ALVIN YIP

Director of Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. Joined PolyU School of Design in 2008, Alvin has been a faculty member and founder of RICE LAB (Research In Competition and Exhibition LABoratory), teaches and researches across the fields of Public space and Environment design, Exhibition and Curatorship, Creative industry and the Pearl River Delta.

Committed to design for societal change, Alvin is currently Board member of Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, Board member of Hong Kong Architecture Centre, Co-founder of Wan Chai Visual Archive, Co-founder of Fashion Farm Foundation, Management committee of PMQ, Advisory Panel member of Hong Kong Art Museums, Expert team member of Cultural City Plan in China, Nomination committee of China Architecture Award. Alvin has served as Vice-commissioner for Hong Kong in Venice Biennale, Co-Chair of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale amongst other advisory positions for cultural and creative institutes.

His curatorial projects break new ground at home and internationally, notably DETOUR, the largest young designer festival in the region, and VICE VERSA, debut of Hong Kong in Venice Architecture Biennale. Dedicated to promote university excellence in creativity, Alvin has been staging student and alumni works at prestigious design exhibitions, design weeks and conferences.

Received his professional terminal degree from the Architectural Association, Alvin has built in Toronto, Manchester, Hong Kong, while his projects exhibited in Rome, London, Barcelona, Helsinki, Istanbul, Berlin, Bilbao, Moscow, Cologne, Paris, Shanghai amongst other cities. Alvin was a winner of Hong Kong Institute of Architects Award in 2007 and the prestigious Rome Scholar in 2004.

Alvin received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award 2011 and Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service on HKSAR 2010 Honours List.

葉長安

現職香港理工大學賽馬會社會創新設計院總監。從事公共空間、設計、文化創意產業與珠三角都會化的項目和教學，並主持設計學院競賽及展示研究室。

積極推動當化文化與可持續發展，葉氏出任香港設計大使董事、香港建築中心董事、港深雙城雙年展港方督導委員、深方學術委員、中國建築傳媒獎香港區提名人、香港藝術博物館諮詢委員、香港路政署橋樑委員會成員，撰文見於區內中外媒體。葉氏創辦灣仔視集、FFF，以往擔當威尼斯雙年展香港館副館長、中國文化城市計劃專家成員等。

葉氏於倫敦AA建築聯盟畢業，往返歐亞多個城市參與工程、展覽、工作坊及論壇。近年策動Detour、城市越位、灣仔視集、著迹、潛力量、六百尺等文化實驗與實踐。

不列顛學院 2004年授予羅馬學人、2007年獲香港建築師學會境外建築獎、2010年獲香港政府行政長官社會服務獎狀、2011年獲香港十大傑出青年。

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