This year, PMQ Seed “Creative Summer Festival” focuses on the theme “Kids in Action”, transforming PMQ into a vibrant space during the festival. In collaboration with Milk Design (HK) and Stickyline, we publicly recruited over 300 pre-P4 to P6 students as “Power Buddies”, among them over 40 school-based teams. In July, the curatorial team led the children to design a series of workshops and games during the 10-day “Pre-Festival Workshop”, focusing on key themes ‘Reduce’, ‘Recycle’, and ‘Reuse’, hoping to inspire participants with creative ideas and methods for plastic reduction, and encouraging everyone to make a positive impact on the environment.
“Creative Summer Festival” kicked off on August 10th and ran for nine days. This year, we have an exciting lineup of 15 activities and games. The highlight is a giant seven-meter-long octopus installation, made from over 200 recycled plastic bags collected from local laundry shops. We hope that participants can reflect on the habit of using and handling plastics creatively. Our power buddies become “Research Ambassadors”, leading games and workshops in “Kids in Action Workshop”. They shared creative ideas for reducing plastic usage and taught about plastic reduction in a fun way! Additionally, there are a series of experience class and creative activity to connect people of all ages, to address plastic issue with creativity, and building a brighter future for our planet.
Participating Schools at PMQ Seed 2024 Creative Summer Festival: (Ranking is based on the stroke order of the Chinese characters in the school names)
Alliance Primary School, Tai Hang Tung
Pentecostal Gin Mao Sheng Primary School
Asbury Methodist Primary School
T.W.G.Hs. Tang Shiu Kin Primary School
Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Primary School
Po Leung Kuk Grandmont Primary School
HKFYG Lee Shau Kee Primary School
Cho Yiu Catholic Primary School
Hennessy Road Government Primary School
Ma On Shan Methodist Primary School
Ma On Shan Ling Liang Primary School
Chan's Creative School
S.K.H. Wei Lun Primary School
Curatorial Team and Teaching Team (Creative Summer Festival)
• Milk Design
The founder of Milk Design Limited, Chi-wing Lee, is a product designer. He believes that design is a tool to explore the different facets of life, and that design is inseparable from daily living. In recent years, he has been actively involved in curatorial work - using exhibitions to promote design to the public. Passionate about design education, he is currently a visiting lecturer at the School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is part of various design education programmes at the PMQ and the Hong Kong Design Centre.
• STICKYLINE
Stickyline was founded in 2011 by Mic Leong & Soilworm Lai. Focusing on paper engineering and structure development, the creative duo has been transforming two-dimensional planes into three-dimensional forms through deconstruction and reconstruction. By folding and creasing, they have created art and design in its own form as installation art, sculpture, stage design and window display, etc.
Teaching Team (Experience Class)
• CreativeKids
Since 1991, CreativeKids has committed to advance creative development in children and teenagers, bond families and mobilize communities with art, design and architecture programs. Our comprehensive and age-appropriate and award-winning after school art and design programs for youngsters aged 1.5 to 18 are designed to foster flexibility and adaptability to thrive in the ever-changing world of the 21st century.
IM Creative, a sub-brand of CreativeKids, is a social enterprise dedicated to making creative art and design education accessible and affordable to the diverse community in Hong Kong, creating positive social changes.It has ignited a creative spirit in the community, collaborated with schools, organizations and corporations, and reached out to families from diverse backgrounds. We have been affirmed as being at the forefront of creative art and design education, engaging ourselves in continual research and development of effective teaching and learning approaches.
• Littleurbanmountain Design Ltd.
The teaching team led by Littleurbanmountain is comprised of multi-disciplinary local creatives, including architects, designers, makers/craftsmen and drama educators. The team will guide students in experiencing the process of design thinking through the creative workshop.
Littleurbanmountain is a collaborative platform that focuses on architecture, interior design and art in Hong Kong. Founded by architect Bong Yeung and theatre artist Lai Sim Fong in 2017, Littleurbanmountain is keen on exploring the relationship between architecture and human condition. Started by working on projects related to sustainable design and social architecture, the team now also creates art installations and participates in community, architectural and interior design projects.
7 Exhibition Zones and Interactive Area (Courtyard and Marketplace)
Details and Registration of other activities
Experience Class (Parent - P1-2 Child)
Experience Class (P3-4)
Experience Class (P5-P6)
Pop-up event
7 Hungry Monsters – A New Normal For Plastic Recycling
Pop-up event
Pop-up event
Weekend Special Event
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