Marisa Yiu is co-founder and Executive Director/ Lead Curator of DESIGN TRUST, an initiative since 2014 of the registered charity Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design. She conceptualized the Design Trust Futures Studio flagship programme as a design community think-tank on new designs for public micro-parks in Hong Kong, to programmes on Heritage and innovation. She is also an architect and Founding Partner of ESKYIU, a multi-disciplinary and award-winning architecture studio based in Hong Kong since 2007, founded in New York in 2005. She was the Chief Curator of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture; curated POP-UP Studio-X Shenzhen, and along with her partner Eric Schuldenfrei of ESKYIU, the duo has been awarded the prestigious 2010 ‘Architectural League Prize’ for their installations featured in the Venice Biennale. At present, Marisa continues to focus with rigor and passion on DESIGN TRUST’s projects and programmes in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area region with its international partners.
Marisa Yiu
Co-Founder, Lead Curator/ Executive Director, DESIGN TRUST
Founding Partner, ESKYIU
