Design Trust - Seed Grant

Studio Yellowdot/Bodin Hon was successfully award Design Trust Seed Grant from the October 2025 October Cycle Grant Recipients

“Beyond the Shell: Transforming Eggshell Waste into Future Materials for Everyday Living” by Bodin Man, investigates how eggshell waste from Hong Kong’s food ecosystem can be repurposed into innovative composites, refined into functional, poetic and aesthetically appealing everyday objects, such as tableware, furniture, and lighting, as well as surface applications that showcase their durability and practicality for daily living. Through collaborations with local food suppliers, artisans, and laboratories across the Greater Bay Area, the project aims to bridge craft, science, and production through innovations, transforming a humble local material into a new platform for sustainable innovations, further culture and explorations and demonstration how design can inspire new systems of making and meaning.

https://designtrust.hk/newsletter/design-trust-2025-october-cycle-grant-recipients-design-trust-seed-feature-grants-2026-theme-announced/

DESIGN TRUST SEED GRANT fosters a culture of experimentation, testing and sharing. It is awarded to individuals seeking to kick-start a meaningful and intellectual project with social, educational, economical or environmental impact for communities. Seed Grants may support applicants who have a project in the pipeline that needs additional resources, as well as emerging designers, and young scholars. Design Trust highly encourages applicants from the region to international applicants to apply for this grant to support their research projects and prototypes focusing on Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area issues to be showcased at international venues, symposium or international biennales, and in return mutually benefit the public realm and knowledge exchange in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.