deTour 2025 - design festival
Hong Kong's annual design festival, deTour 2025, returns from 28 November to 7 December 2025. Under the theme "The Shape of Yearning", curator Adonian Chan invites the public to explore design's essence through the “Design Trichotomy” lenses of Envisioning, Idealising, and Believing.
deTour 2025 features 17 installations and exhibitions by local and international designers, highlighted by a special "International Collaboration" with renowned Swiss studio Encor Studio. With over 40 workshops, 12 dialogue and performance sessions, dedicated "deTour Kids" experiences, and 80+ guided tours, deTour 2025 offers endless inspiration.
Organised by PMQ and sponsored by Hong Kong’s Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, deTour 2025 – design festival opens its doors from 28 November to 7 December.
Curated by designer Adonian Chan, deTour 2025 unfolds under the banner of “The Shape of Yearning” (想望之器). This edition invites us to explore this journey across the “Design Trichotomy”: Envisioning, the questions we seek to resolve;Idealising, the futures we hope to shape;and Believing, the convictions that compel us to create.
Featuring 17 installations and exhibits, this year’s festival brings together designers from Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United States. International Collaboration work “ALCOVE IN SITU” is designed by Encor Studio, Switzerland. They turned the Qube within PMQ into a minimalist canvas, guiding the audience to explore the cutting-edge fusion of design and technology. Through delicate use of light and electrochromic films, as well as sound and visual composition, the audience will immerse in a space where the unseen memory is reawakened and traces of time are evoked.
The curator also selected four Feature Exhibitions to interpret this year’s theme. “Home Ecology – The Philo Modular System”, presented by Hong Kong creative duo TOUN 亠, featuring freely assembled aluminium components that transform homes into dynamic spaces for adaptable and sustainable living. London-based Studio Nopqrst presents “Trueform,” in which Hong Kong designer Hamlet Auyeung transforms traces of torn street posters into handcrafted images, sculpture and digital media. The work reveals beauty in fragments, contemplating design’s deeper value and humanity’s role in the age of AI.
Italian designer Lucia Massari’s “primavera” lamp series draws inspiration from Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Renaissance paintings, revitalising the Venetian glassmaking tradition while infusing it with contemporary colours. “Instrument.Play.Graphics - Modular Graphic Synthesizer -”, by Japanese designer Shunta Sakamoto transforms audience interaction into visual imagery, merging sight and sound to rediscover the joy of “playing with design”.
In addition, 12 outstanding works were selected through an open call. They showcase the diversity and creative vitality of this year’s participants, drawing inspiration from AI generation, architecture and cityscape, sound design, innovative materials, and even MBTI personality theory. The festival will also feature over 40 workshops, 12 Creative Voice dialogues, performances and book clubs, 80 guided tours, and the family-friendly programme “deTour Kids”. Join us at PMQ to immerse yourself in Hong Kong’s annual celebration of design—and to explore its boundless possibilities.
Learn more: https://main.detour.hk/en-us