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    Community Art-hacking: Chan's Creative School (Hong Kong Island) | Dylan Kwok
    82 Marble Road

    Chan’s Creative School is a joyous environment in North Point for children to learn, play, and grow. Via North Point has brought along architects in to design interactive furniture for the primary school, such as utilities in the refurbished music room, an engaging community garden, and to redecorate the playground’s space.

    Dylan Kwok
    Registered Interior Architect (Finland)

    In the past decades, Dylan has explored the culturally diversity of urban settings in East Asia, North America and the Scandinavia, and has developed a strong interested in humanistic design in urbanism. His talent was first served in designing W-hotel Atlanta, and Holt Renfrew Toronto under Burdifilek Design Studio in Canada, before his adventure in Finland, where he conducted several design researches for NOKIA and the City Planning Office of Helsinki. Now based in Hong Kong, Dylan continues to explore the phenomena in the post-industrial cities, under the influence of the peripheral high-speed urban development. Thus, search for the creative niche in the art and design sector.

    Dylan was the design lead at Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation during its founding period. Since 2013, Dylan supervises final years students on their graduation projects in Macau Polytechnic Institute and teaches three dimensional thinking and design in University of St. Joseph. Dylan received his interior design education from Ryerson University (Canada) and granted his master degree in Spatial Design from University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland) with an award-winning thesis.

    He was selected for the 40 under 40 Perspective 2011 as one of the upcoming Design Stars of Tomorrow followed by the Hong Kong Young Design Talent title in 2009. Recent projects include: Slow Living Experiment@Oi! (2016), 10dayfest (2013, 2015), Detour MATTERS(2013), Helsinki South Harbour International Concept Competition (2011) , Kai Tak River Art Festival (2010).