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Aric Chen discusses the challenges of Asia's design scene. We do so from our vantage point in Hong Kong, China, Asia—and the world at large. As such, we try not to box ourselves in by discipline, genre, or geography, and I think the collection reflects this. We've acquired everything from contemporary Chinese art and post-World War II Japanese design to Hong Kong neon signs, post-Independence Indian architecture, Korean Dansaekhwa art, and Southeast Asian moving image--often in dialogue with each other and with work from the rest of the world, up until the present day.

Why is that? You're spot-on: since there aren't many museums focusing on design in Asia , we wanted to test some of the approaches we're taking.

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So we laid some historical stakes, whether by re-centering the modernist canon via Japan or framing s Hong Kong plastics through the lens of design—from masterpieces to mass, if you will—while spotlighting contemporary practices ranging from digital fabrication and reappropriations of craft to copying which we don't see as necessarily a bad thing.

It was a big show for a not-so-big space, but we wanted to give a sense of design's vastness and intricacies. What is the landscape of the architecture and design scene in Asia like right now? I'll answer your question with another question that people always ask us: How do you define Asia? The design and architecture landscape in Asia is as diverse as Asia itself, with everyone having their own challenges and possibilities.

That being said, we're living in a time and place of incredible dynamism, and that applies to design and architecture, too.