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Dr. Vivien Chan is a design historian, educator and imagemaker. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé in 2024 as part of the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia Project, with a focus on spaces of consumption in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the MA History of Design programme at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Royal College of Art and has a BA Hons in Illustration & Animation at Kingston School of Art. Chan is also currently a History Workshop Editorial Fellow and an Honorary Fellow at the Raphael Samuel History Centre at Birkbeck, University of London.

Chan’s work focuses on design in Asia, with particular interest in the everyday, space, visual-material culture and archives. She is a co-founder of two research collectives, Hong Kong Design History Network and astra*, which utilise inter-disciplinary methodologies for knowledge exchange. In 2021, she co-curated the Hong Kong Pavilion at the London Design Biennale held at Somerset House. She has contributed writing, research and images to independent publications including daikon*, Fortified and Riposte, and previously worked as a fashion illustrator.