V&A East: Design Trust Fellowship (UK, Hong Kong, China)

The Design Trust Fellowship at V&A East is a one-year programme awarding a creative practitioner funding to engage in research at V&A East Storehouse, fieldwork in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and China where appropriate, and to produce a new creative work, which will be displayed at V&A East for a six-month season.

The inaugural V&A East Design Trust Fellowship will begin in Autumn 2025, culminating in a commissioned work on display in Autumn 2026 through Spring 2027.

Practitioners are asked to respond to the theme the 'Stories of Clothes', with a research focus relating to Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and China. The fellowship is interested in projects rooted in object-based research which explore the meaning of clothes, questioning what our clothing reveals about us from the complex and intricate relationship we have with our own bodies to the ways in which their design, production and disposal shape our world.

The successful candidate will receive 275,000 HKD to fund their time, travel expenses, accommodation and production costs of a new work to be installed at V&A East. Fellows can be based anywhere around the world, but V&A East would expect at least 3 weeks of research to take place at V&A East Storehouse.