Vivien Chan

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	<title>Vivien Chan</title>
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		<title>Space</title>
				
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		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<description>Space
I research, write, and teach about space and culture. I think about materials, relationships, and how people connect in space.


	I completed my PhD in 2024 with my thesis titled “A Colony of Shopkeepers”: Spaces of Consumption in New Towns public housing estates, Hong Kong, 1954-1989. My research was part of the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth-century Asia project (COTCA) led by Dr. Jeremy Taylor at University of Nottingham. My current post-doctoral fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies continues some of this research, focusing on Wet Spaces: embodied spatial-historical practices of wetness in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.&#38;nbsp;


I completed my thesis Assembling the dai pai dong: Living and Occupying the Street in Hong Kong, 1950s - present at the Royal College of Art/ Victoria &#38;amp; Albert Museum MA History of Design programme in 2017.


I’m also interested in radical multi-disciplinary research methodologies and archives. Moving through space and experiencing it holistically forms my thinking of the research itself. Touching the page, tasting and smelling the market, navigating the landscape, making light or deep conversation, moving from place to place, all help to ground myself in the work.


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		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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I love to think about and make books.


	At the moment I am working on Archiving Archiving, a project on grassroots design archives in Asia started together with Zara Arshad, and forms the basis for our constellation astra*. We recently received a Design Trust Grant to produce our debut publication together.


	For me, making books is a collaborative process. Previously I have led on Polyphonies (2017) which recorded the process of design history research. The final object can be satisfying in tactility but I’m also motivated by the iteration process of making. 


I’m also interested in the digital page as a space for entangling text and image.I was previously an editorial fellow for History Workshop, commissioning a series on itinerant histories, and where I led the illustration commissions since 2024. I was editorial lead for the 2016-2017 edition of Unmaking Things, an experimental platform for the RCA History of Design programme.&#38;nbsp;


	Archiving Archiving: Scoping (2026) an experimental publication on grassroots design archives in Asia, co-edited by astra* (Zara Arshad and Vivien Chan, book design by Fibi Kung, funded by the Design Trust Hong Kong Seed Grant and Design History Society Decolonising Design History Grant.

	
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	Polyphonies (2017) a record of design history research, edited by Tanya Bennett, Vivien Chan, Sophie Chatellier, Andrea Foffa, Natalia Goldsteine, Anna Stewart, graphic design and image credits to Dan Kozma and Ariana Tilche
	

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Sooner, or later (2016) a collaborative zine between RCA/V&#38;amp;A History of Design and RCA Visual Communiation, 
edited by Vivien Chan, Sophie Chatellier and Andrea Foffa

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		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<description>ImageI draw and print, mostly from life. Drawing is how I learned to move and feel.

	 I studied Illustration &#38;amp; Animation at Kingston School of Art and trialled a career in fashion illustration. Now I make images for myself and independent publishing, as well as teaching and writing about illustration. I also dabble in other kinds of making, some textiles, printmaking, a little ceramics.I like to know how things work and how objects are made.
	For me, drawing is about texture, movement, the body. I understand it as a process and a method. Drawing is itself a trace of my own body and hand, sometimes interfacing through a machine, a material. Images can be sensual and sensitive in queer and quiet ways.&#38;nbsp;


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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 21:04:15 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<description>ConstellationI think collectively and collaboratively. Forming constellations are an important part of my practice.

	 I am a co-founder of two research collectives: Hong Kong Design History Network; and astra*. Both of these groups were founded on the ethos of criticality and curiousity while prioritising integrity and connection. There is something to be said for slow research - as our everyday becomes more pressing, I find it to be all the more urgent to slow down and be present.
Together with these collectives, I have co-curated exhibitions, made publications, presented papers, designed and facilitated workshops, and had the opportunity to exchange with people from all over the world.

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hkdhnet is a design collective focused on the design history and material cultures of Hong Kong. We co-curated Sandtable 


沙盆推演 the Hong Kong Pavilion at the London Design Biennale in 2021.
astra* is a design constellation with Zara Arshad, engaging in intersections, serendipity, works-in-progress, and intuitive research. We are currently working on a publication on grassroots design archives.
I also think about constellations in terms of research. Here’s how you can make your own research planisphere.

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		<title>OOP</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:39:50 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<description>&#60;img width="1818" height="859" width_o="1818" height_o="859" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcf93e16e93995d520c397eca8ecb49519694ed1d684246f980cde5c06b20b01/SLASH-OUT-OF-PRACTICE.png" data-mid="237918221" border="0" data-scale="28" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcf93e16e93995d520c397eca8ecb49519694ed1d684246f980cde5c06b20b01/SLASH-OUT-OF-PRACTICE.png" /&#62;is a reading room and design history research studio founded in 2025. Located in the People’s Hall in the heart of Nottingham, the site of the Nottingham Government School of Design in 1843,the studio is the home of my collaborative practice as a design historian, educator and facilitator. Between October 2025 and September 2026, the space hosts design research practice residencies by invitation.&#38;nbsp;

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		<title>Bio</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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Vivien Chan

	Dr., she/theyI am a design historian, educator, writer, and imagemaker based in the UK.I research design history and material culture in Hong Kong with a broad interest in design and the everyday. I am currently&#38;nbsp;an Asia in the World Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, during which I was a visiting scholar at the Institut Francais Pondicherry, India. From 2023-25, I was a History Workshop Editorial Fellow, and an Honorary Fellow at the Raphael Samuel History Centre, Birkbeck, University of London. I teach illustration and design research at Nottingham Trent University and have guest lectured at the Royal College of Art, Kingston School of Art and Academy of Visual Art at Baptist University Hong Kong.
In 2025, I founded Out of Practice, a reading room and design research studio in the People’s Hall in Nottingham. Find out more through my newsletter and on Instagram.
You can find me on the internetor you can email me at vc[at]vivienchan.co.uk
︎ ︎&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;︎

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portrait by Rachel Meng Man, 2023.


Selected writing:


Race &#38;amp; Design, ed. Davinia Gregory-Kameka and Sabrina Rahman, ‘Squatters’ rites: ‘anti-design’ and the body at the dai pai dong in Hong Kong’, Routledge, 2026 (forthcoming)‘To leave is to arrive (cast your net)’ in Az Crawford,&#38;nbsp;The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design, exhibition catalogue, July 2026

Digest, ed. Holly Eliza Temple, ‘Chew’, April 2026
‘Leftover:what remains’, as part of Dregs: Soup without Water, an exhibition by Biyi Zhu,&#38;nbsp;OxWarehouse Macau, February 2026&#38;nbsp;
History Workshop, ‘Illustrating History from Below’, January 2026
History Workshop, ‘Radical Synergies’, January 2026
Typesetter, ‘Modular Market, Everyday Experience, and the Movement of Diversified Historiographies—An Interview with Vivien Chan’(interview), December 2025
Barkle &#38;amp; Tranklements: Art Writing from the Midlands, ed.Benjamin Barra and Lesley Guy, ‘Culture at the Centre: a diasporic point of view’, Corridor8, 2025
Corridor8, ‘Maia Ruth Lee, Human Life in Motion’, Primary, exhibition review, April 2025
Corridor 8, ‘There is nothing old under the sun: an interview with Steph Huang’(interview), April 2025
Short Eats, ed. Nicole Tan, ‘Catch of the Day’ March 2025


History Workshop, ‘From Place to Place’ series introduction, January 2025 (series editor)


‘Fragments for another reality’, Jas Singh, accompanying text for exhibition 1984, Phoenix, Leicester, December 2024

Filler zine #8: Kitchens,’Appliance’, November 2024 


Corridor8,‘Steph Huang: there is nothing old under the sun’, esea contemporary, exhibition review, November 2024 


Archivio #10: Design, Archiving Archiving (interview), September 2024


Meritalia Magazine,
‘Decomposure’, 

 ed. by Andrea Foffa and Marta Franceschini, April 2024

 CONGEE Zine, ‘Ad Hoc Juk’, August 2023, in collaboration with artist Alastair Kwan and F.A.T. Studio

Fortified Gazette, 13th- 17th September 2022, peeling prawns; repetoires and gifts; here, a Nutrigrain bar; gravy; fervour/flavour


Urban History, April 2022,‘Markets made modular:constructing the modern ‘wet’ market in Hong Kong’s public housing estates’︎ Shortlisted on the Hong Kong Studies IBP 2023

Podcasts/videos:Off Margin Season 3 Episode 3, 6th OctoberThe last of Hong Kong’s street food rebels, SCMP 

Reverberations

Women read


Academic lectures, conferences and workshops:
Out of Practice (keynote), Failure and Resistance, Illustration Research Symposium 16, 13-14th November 2026 (forthcoming)
MA GDC Talks, Global Perspectives on Graphic Design Practice, 30th October 2026 (forthcoming)Asia in the World: Knowledge on the Move,IIAS, Leiden University, 22nd September 2026
‘How to buy a fish:bodies and commodities in Hong Kong’s wet markets’, IFP Monday Colloquium, French Institute Pondicherry, June 2026
‘Archiving Archiving’, presented with Zara Arshad, RMIT School of Design, Melbourne, May 2026
‘Making the Street’, Cultural Anthropology, University Padjadjaran, Bandung Indonesia, May 2026
‘Corridor kitchens, mushroom pavilions: foodscapes of cooked food hawkers in post-war Hong Kong’, Foodscaping Asia II: Metropolis, ICAS 13 Crossways of Knowledge, Surabaya, Indonesia, July 2024dressing eating living moving workshop (co-convenor), ICAS 13 Crossways of Knowledge, Surabaya, Indonesia, July 2024&#38;nbsp;

‘Exhibiting Spatial Histories: Design History and Cross-cultural Spatial Narratives of Hong Kong' panel (co-convenor), Workshop on Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages in the UK, University of Sheffield, June 2024
HKSA Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, May 2024

‘The Pitch and the Module: 

hawkers and markets in designing post-war Hong Kong's New Towns public housing estates’, 


Universität Wien, April 2024

‘Hidden Histories’ workshop, University of Nottingham, March 2024

'Everyday rituals in the British Empire and after' workshop,

University of Nottingham, June 2023
Disclosing Architecture, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam,November 2022


‘Archival Interference: Counter-archives and Design History in Asia’, Archival Interactions Symposium, DAS Amsterdam, June 2022

Other speaking events:
Out of Practice, Notts Zine Fest, 25th October 2026 (forthcoming)
The Hawker Library, IIAS, Leiden University, September 2026

The People’s Design School:A short history of design in Nottingham, The People’s Hall, September 2025
(History of) Having -&#38;gt; (Designing) Being, Creative Voice deTour 2024, PMQ Hong Kong, December 2024&#38;nbsp;


Beyond the Egg Tart:Everyday perspectives of Hong Kong visual culture, Romance in the Mundane Roundtable Talks, Gathering Leaves, September 2024

University of Nottingham Humanities delegation, University of Adelaide, November 2023

Introduction to Girl’s School by Lee Mimi, Queer East, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, November 2022


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		<title>Extended CV</title>
				
		<link>https://vivienchan.co.uk/Extended-CV</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 09:54:58 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<description>Extended CV:
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:


Fortified Issue 003, ‘Sweet treats &#38;amp; school puds’, July 2022

Centre for Global Design History,June 2021,Report- Design Archives in Asia Symposium


Geofictions: Work in Progress, ed. Zara Arshad, February 2021,Interviewing Alvin Li and Junyuan Feng, curators of Liquid Ground

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


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		<link>https://vivienchan.co.uk/In-Practice-3-Beth-Bird</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:48:37 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>IOOP#7</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:26:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Vivien Chan</dc:creator>

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		<title>In Practice #2: Seashells</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:14:42 +0000</pubDate>

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