Noel Cheung|Curator|Ceramicist
Noel Cheung 張知行

Noel Cheung is a London-based independent curator working across contemporary design, architecture, and art. 

Her practice explores how material culture shapes experiences of migration, memory, and belonging in postcolonial Britain. She collaborates with museums, cultural organisations, and creative practitioners to develop research-led exhibitions, curatorial frameworks, and public programmes.

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Research on the Move
2022

Category: Public Talk
Location:  M+ Museum, Hong Kong and online

Curatorial role: Programme design and management, partnership development
— Research is fundamental to deepening and rethinking how the ‘designed’ world came to be. The practice of research is shaped by evolving hypotheses, sites, perspectives, and evidence.

Research on the Move brought together eight M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows from 2015 to 2019. In this public talk, the fellows conversed with Hong Kong–based practitioners who have been influential in exploring similar fields through a series of topic-orientated dialogues. The dialogues reflected on how past research inquiries were or are being shaped by the fellows’ continuous research trajectories, and how they resonate with the works of each practitioner. The event aims to stimulate further development in historical and practice-based research, and reconsider the museum’s role in these endeavours.

From 2017—2022, I managed the following research initiatives and shaped public programmes and research publications:

  • Hong Kong Architecture in the Video Game Vernacular | Hugh Davies | public talk
  • Making Space for Play: From Shek Lei Playground to 20th Century Hong Kong Playscapes | Fan Lok Yi & Sampson Wong | public talk
  • In Search of Brutalism in Hong Kong | Oliver Elser | public talk
  • Expanding ‘Tradition’ in Indonesia’s Contemporary Architecture | Yasmin Tri Aryani | public talk
  • Auto Pilot Cities: Smart Developments in Southeast Asia | Mark Wasiuta & Farzin Lotfi-Jam | public talk
  • Shanzhai Paradigm | Jason Lau | public talk
  • China and the ‘Cosmotechnics’ of Fashion | Anouchka van Driel | public talk