Exhibition gives visitors a taste of Hong Kong through dynamic designs

Scenes flash by in seconds: one moment the Star Ferry speeds across a sunlit Victoria Harbour; the next, baristas at a Sheung Wan coffee shop are seen busily making brews, and then images of street vendors flash past. This series of fleeting, ever-changing impressions was part of an exhibition, appropriately named Hong Kong: Constant Change, at this year's Milan Design Week.

The multimedia showcase featured film and music by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi, products, live creation by some of the participating designers, and a mobile app that interacted with Quick Response (QR) codes to give viewers extra interviews and insights with some of the 60 designers involved.

It was part of a wider series of exhibitions at Milan's Triennale Design Museum, one of many outposts in the city that hosted creative events this month.

Danish architect Nille Juul-Sørensen, who is also director of the Danish Design Centre, curated Hong Kong: Constant Change on behalf of organisers, the Hong Kong Design Centre.

"I decided I would like to present young designers," says Juul-Sørensen, 55. "Hong Kong has a lot of designers my age who are really famous, which is great, but there's a whole population of designers out there who are really cool [and much younger]. It's sort of street but not street. It's got a complexity to it."

And it was this "street" idea that inspired the concept for the whole exhibition.