Community Engagement at the Core: Rethinking Museums for the Twenty-First Century

We regret to inform you that, due to a last-minute change in the speaker’s schedule, we are postponing the talk originally planned for 2 October to December. We will announce a new date for this talk as soon as possible.

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M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship

The M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship programme supports original research projects investigating issues relating to design and architecture in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia through a transnational lens

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Contributing to an Open Society through Digitised Museum Collections

15.02.2019, Hotel Stage

In this talk, the speaker discusses efforts to embrace the digital era’s potential to improve access to museum collections for creative reuse and public engagement

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Visitors Making Meaning – Constructivist Learning in Museums

31.01.2019, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker introduces the idea of constructivist pedagogy and how it can be applied in museums to the creation of all kinds of interpretation materials

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Building Louvre Abu Dhabi

07.12.2018, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

In this M+ Matters | Keynote talk, Manuel Rabaté, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi and a key figure in the development of the project, discusses this twenty-first-century encyclopedic museum as ‘a museum of experimentation, and a museum of meeting points’

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Negotiating Access and Preservation in the Contemporary Museum

06.12.2018, Hotel Stage

In this talk, the speaker examines the relationship between the notions of access and preservation in museums

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Envisioning the Museum in the Age of Participation

03.08.2018, Hotel Stage

The talk invites the audience to consider the roles a museum plays in society, as well as the forms of participation that can both emerge from and shape a contemporary museum of visual culture

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Post-1949 Visual and Material Culture in China

05.07.2018, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

The talk considers critical issues in the first decades of the socialist state in China through a multidisciplinary lens, examining design and visual art

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M+ Rover 2018

M+ Rover is a major school and community outreach programme first organised by M+ in 2016. The customised trailer is a travelling creative studio and exhibition space that tours to local secondary schools and community spaces

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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour

09.02.2018 to 06.05.2018, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Conceived originally for the 57th Venice Biennale, the Hong Kong edition of the Songs for Disaster Relief exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Samson Young re-examines the concept of charity singles and offers a unique audiovisual experience through a series of sculptures, objects, videos, sound installations and site-specific pieces

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Interpretation – Between Audiences and Meaning

28.04.2018, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker will start with the definition of interpretation, followed by an introduction to recent research and case studies demonstrating the importance of interpretation in creating an engaging and creative learning experience, underpinned by relevance, connection and communication

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Visual Thinking Strategies: From Sharing Information to Sharing Ways of Thinking

13.04.2018 to 14.04.2018, Hotel Stage

In this session, the speaker will draw on the concepts and methodologies of VTS and look at how the approach has been used with primary and secondary school students and adults across various disciplines, stressing on the importance of thinking, listening, observing and communicating when interpreting exhibits

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M+ at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018

29.03.2018 to 31.03.2018, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Learn more about M+ at our specially designed M+ booth at Art Basel Hong Kong. The booth offers information about the museum building and programmes, and visitors will have the chance to meet and engage with M+ curators and conservators. Art Basel entry ticket not required

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art

Asia Art Archive in collaboration with M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, presents a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on women in art in Asia on 30 March 2018. Join us on 24 February 2018 for a tutorial to learn about wiki-editing! Free and open to public with registration

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Opening up the Museum to All – On Accessibility Awareness

24.02.2018, Hotel Stage

By introducing concepts and ideas about equality for people with different abilities, the speaker will illustrate MoMA’s approach to accessibility and also discuss the development and outcomes of their Access Programs in order to demonstrate how such initiatives benefit both the museum and its audience

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The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+

13.10.2017 to 14.01.2018, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Featuring work by more than forty artists from across Asia and beyond, The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art looks at the diverse explorations that have taken place over the past sixty years

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Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium

14.12.2017 to 15.12.2017, The University of Hong Kong

This symposium seeks to reexamine Pei in the context of the architect’s 100th birthday year. The event aims to resituate the architect from the intersecting vantage points of the two regional poles with which he’s most closely linked—Hong Kong/China and Boston/the United States

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Studying the Experience of Museum Visitors in Hong Kong

13.12.2017, Hotel Stage

In this session, we examine concepts by scholars in the field of museum visitor studies, and introduce different types of museum visitors in Hong Kong, as summarised in the speaker’s field research

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Miracle of The Benesse Art Site Naoshima

08.12.2017, The University of Hong Kong

Soichiro Fukutake and Akiko Miki of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima and celebrated architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA discuss the transformative effect of a project combining contemporary art, architecture and landscape

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REORIENT: Conversations on South and Southeast Asia

30.11.2017 to 02.12.2017, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

REORIENT is a three-day event designed as a platform to explore views across geographies (from Bangalore to Bangladesh, Yogyakarta to Ho Chi Minh City), disciplines (from visual art, design and architecture, and moving image) and initiatives (from bottom-up to institutionally-driven practices)

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Experiments in Museum Learning

29.11.2017, Hotel Stage

Riding on M+’s core beliefs about learning, this session introduces a variety of experimental art projects and exhibitions that focus on educational models and pedagogical practices, thereby exploring how curating and creative approaches can bring forth new ideas and possibilities to a museum’s learning programme

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Roles of a Museum in the 21st Century

16.11.2017, Hotel Stage

This session looks at how the role of museums has evolved from their conventional counterparts, and how they in turn reflect and inform various aspects of contemporary society

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‘We Are One?’ Screenings & Conversations

16.10.2017 to 23.10.2017, Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema

To accompany Hong Kong’s collateral event at the Venice Biennale 2017, Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief, M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Centre are co-presenting a programme of film screenings and conversations on the theme of charity efforts

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Canton Express

23.06.2017 to 10.09.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Canton Express is the new iteration of the Canton Express project that was part of the exhibition Zone of Urgency curated by Hou Hanru for the 2003 Venice Biennale

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Between Past and Future: Art of the Pearl River Delta

07.09.2017, Asia Society Hong Kong Center

This edition of M+ Matters will survey the circumstances and evolution of curatorial strategies and art research in the region from the late 1990s to the present

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M+ Summer Camp 2017: Nerve

13.08.2017 to 16.08.2017

M+ Summer Camp is a youth-targeted initiative organised by M+. Over the past two summers, the camps have each attracted one hundred students from different schools and backgrounds but with the same interests and passions

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M+ Rover 2017

M+ Rover: Travelling Creative Studio is the first major free school outreach programme organised annually by M+. The 8 metre-long tailor-made trailer is a pop-up creative studio that will tour to secondary schools and community spaces during the academic year from February to June 2017

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Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture

17.03.2017 to 21.05.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture offers new insights into Hong Kong popular culture through representations of androgyny and gender fluidity in Cantopop, fashion, film, photography, and graphic design

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Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection

30.11.2016 to 05.02.2017, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon

M+’s debut design exhibition – Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection – explores the many concepts and frameworks that have shaped and broadened our understanding of design

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Special Lectures: The Making of Millennium Park

02.12.2016, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Join us on 2 December as West Kowloon and the Hong Kong Design Centre co-present Special Lectures: The Making of Millennium Park at this year’s Business of Design Week (BODW)

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M+ Summer Camp 2016

31.07.2016 to 03.08.2016, Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Jockey Club Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp

M+ Summer Camp is one of M+’s youth-targeted initiatives. We invite practitioners of visual art, design, architecture, illustration, film, writing, and performing arts to create programmes to engage young people

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Copies without Borders: Imitation as Innovation

14.04.2016, Atelier Clerici, Milan, Italy

As part of the programme at Atelier Clerici, the leading hub of critical thinking during the annual Salone del Mobile in Milan, Copies without Borders: Imitation as Innovation brings M+ and its M+ Matters format to an international stage, enriching the global discourse about copying as a methodology in contemporary design practice

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Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection

10.01.2014 to 09.02.2014, ArtisTree

The first M+ architecture exhibition showcasing the future M+ building winning design & the museum's growing architecture collection

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Building M+ Talk: Collecting Architecture: Process, Challenges and Effects

25.01.2014, ArtisTree

Inviting architects, and specialists from research institutions and universities, this talk and panel discussion aims to look at the challenges and implications of building an architecture collection

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Building M+ Talk: Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron, M+ Building Architect

09.01.2014, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building

Jacques Herzog talks about Herzog & de Meuron’s practice, approach and winning proposal for M+

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