VILLAGE ENCOUNTER is a project with a core value of decolonisation, co-designing sustainable futures for villages by returning the lost voice and ownership back to the villagers.

There are three chapters into which this project is divided. Chapter 0 and Chapter 1 started from a specific village in China. By remotely engaging with the community, we collaboratively designed a unique service system of craft & tour.

In Chapter 2, developing upon the outcome of Chapter 1, Village Collective Innovation Agency has been set up with a series of designed tools to support the agency’s designers and researchers to carry out any co-design projects in any other villages.