Vivien Chan is a design historian, educator, writer, and imagemaker based in the UK.
Academic conferences:
'Making the modern wet market in Hong Kong’s New Towns Public Housing Estates:order consumption and the materiality of ‘wetness’’, Oxford University Hong Kong Scholars Association, November 2021
‘Reconstructing Design Archives: Tracing Alternative Narratives of Design History' panel (co-convenor), Memory Full, Design History Society Annual Conference, Academy of Art and Design Basel, September 2021
'Propaganda and the art of Labour in Hong Kong Protest' roundtable (invited panellist), Media and Hong Kong Protests, Queen Mary University of London, December 2019
'Traversing Boundaries: Spatial and Material Narratives of Twentieth-century Hong Kong' (convenor), Joint East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, September 2019
International History of East Asia Seminar Oxford, Trinity Term, June 2019
All Roads Lead to Hong Kong, Hong Kong History Project/HKU Conference, HKU, June 2019
Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar Series, Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2019
Design and Displacement, Design History Society Annual Conference, Cooper Hewitt/Parsons New York, September 2018
Scripts, print and letterform in global contexts, Centre for Print History and Culture, Birmingham City University, June 2018
Articles:
Design History Society, December 2018, Design and Displacement (1)
--, June 2018, Hearing Design History
--, November 2017, Making and Unmaking the Environment (3)
--, August 2017, Thoughts on Three Czech Modernist Villas
daikon* Winter 2018, Issue 4, Across the table: researching identity through food
Riposte (online) 2018, XING: An Interview with Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Design China, May 2016, More on China Design Centre