29/01/2026
ที่เรือนวราพร ระหว่างวันที่ 29 มกราคม-8 กุมภาพันธ์ ในช่วง Bangkok Design Week นอกจากจะมี 3 เมนูสูตรต้นตำรับจากครอบครัว สุรวดี เรายังมีการจัดนิทรรศการของศิลปินจากไต้หวันด้วยนะคะ มาชิมและมาชมกันได้
Exhibition Theme|Shop Signs as Everyday Culture
Shop signs are among the most familiar objects in the city. They guide us, name places, and quietly shape how we move through everyday urban life.
In Bangkok’s Old Town, Chinese-language shop signs carry more than commercial information. They record histories of migration, language, craftsmanship, and family livelihoods passed down across generations. Painted, repaired, replaced, or slowly fading with time, these signs reveal how culture is continuously used rather than preserved as a static object.
This exhibition approaches shop signs not as nostalgic relics, but as living cultural practices. By re-reading their visual forms and materials through research and design, signage becomes a lens for understanding how everyday culture adapts, disappears, and can be reactivated within the contemporary city.
This project also grows out of an educational journey. In 2024, the curator developed a course on design discourse within the PhD programme in Creative Design at Dhurakij Pundit University (DPU), guiding students to re-examine Bangkok’s Old Town through the lens of linguistic landscape. Parts of this exploration were later developed into works for the Fufu Sustainable Blessing project at Tainan 400+. Due to various circumstances, the works were unable to join the planned touring exhibition.
This exhibition marks a return to Bangkok’s Old Town. Building upon earlier research and creative outcomes, the project takes the form of a site-responsive extension—transforming academic and educational results into a locally grounded, participatory variation.
At the exhibition site, visitors are invited to take part in a small collective activity by drawing their own vision of a future shop sign. Through this shared act of making, cultural memory moves beyond observation and becomes a space for imagining how language, everyday craftsmanship, and urban landscapes might continue to evolve.
We warmly invite you to join us in co-creating the future cultural landscape of Bangkok’s Old Town.
Curator & Key Visual / Yu Pei Kuo
Instalation / Shian-Heng Lee
An ESG-Oriented Creative Experiment for the Sustainable Regeneration of the Cultural Landscape in Bangkok’s Old Town
ESG創作實驗:曼谷老城文化景觀的永續再生
Dates January 29 – February 8, 2026
Venue Garden of Varaporn’s House (next to Bangkokian Museum)