Professor
Anneke Coppoolse
Assistant Professor, Visual Communication Design
Anneke Coppoolse has worked at the crossroads of researchand creative practice for more than a decade. Her professional experience spans the advertising and non-profit sectors. Her academic research deals with the materiality and visuality of everyday life and modern cities, and navigates questions of aesthetics and lived experience in the domains of visual communication and cultural studies.
MAJOR
Discursive Design, Exhibition Experiences, Ethnography, Graphic Design, Communication Design, Visual Culture
BIOGRAPHY
2016
PhD in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2011
MA in Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam
2006
BA in Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam
Since 2020
Assistant Professor, Visual Communication Design, Hongik University
2017-20
Assistant Professor, Communication Design, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
AWARDS
2017
Outstanding Paper Award (co-authored), The Academy of Hong Kong Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles (selected)
Coppoolse, A. (2023) ‘The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal edited by Stefan Krebs and Heike Weber’, Design and Culture15.3: 445-448 (book review).
Coppoolse, A. (2023) ‘The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal edited by Stefan Krebs and Heike Weber’, Design and Culture15.3: 445-448 (book review).
Coppoolse, A. (2021) ‘Hong Kong on Display: Things, Time, and Urban Space’, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies8.1: pp. 121-133.
Coppoolse, A., Chan, K.M. and Yu, W.C. (2020) Contested Canvas, Nuart Journal4 Freedom (visual essay): pp. 87-95.
Coppoolse, A. (2020) Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism by Alice Twemlow, Design and Culture11.3 (book review): 106-108.
Kwok, B.S.H. and A. Coppoolse. (2018) Hues on a Shell: Cyber-Dystopia and the Hong Kong Façade in the Cinematic City, WiderScreen 1-2 – City Imaginings and Urban Everyday Life.
Kwok, B.S.H. and A. Coppoolse. (2018). Hong Kong Skins: Signs and Screens in a Changing Cityscape, Visual Communication17.1 (visual essay): pp. 71-90.
Kwok, B.S.H. and A. Coppoolse. (2017) Illuminography: A Survey of the Pictorial Language of Hong Kong’s Neon Signs, Visible Language51.1: pp. 88-111.
Book Chapters (selected)
Coppoolse, A. (2019) Create No More! Clutter and Boredom, a Hong Kong Perspective, in De Kloet, J., Chow, Y. F., and Scheen, L. (eds.), Boredom, Shanzhai and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: pp. 53-76.
Coppoolse, A. (2018) A Legacy of Light, in Kwok, B.S.H., Fading Neon Lights: The Archive of Hong Kong Visual Culture, Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (translated into Chinese): pp. 24-29.
Coppoolse, A. (2016) Under the Spectacle: Viewing Trash in the Streets of Central, Hong Kong, in Lindner, C. and M. Meissner (eds.), Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Excess, Waste, and Abandonment. New York: Routledge: pp. 148-162.
Coppoolse, A. (2016) Political Street Ecology, in Kwok, B.S.H., I’m a Street Ethnologist: Street Culture in Fa Yuen Street. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (translated into Chinese): pp. 258-265.
Other
Kwok, B.S.H. and A. Coppoolse (2018) Designing the Spectacle: Pre-Digital Graphic Design Practices. Exhibition book (bi-lingual). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 94 pp.
Conference Presentations (selected)
‘Wild Greens Making Worlds: Stories of Foraged Foods’, By Design and by Disaster Conference 2024, The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano / BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Schlanders (July 2024)
‘Critical Remaking, Enterprising Work: An Inquiry into Downtown Seoul’s Creative Lives’, IACS Conclave 2023 – Post-Pandemic Futures: Re-Mapping Inter-Asian Routes, Ahmedabad University (Jul 2023)
‘The Public Abode: A Visual Inquiry into Traces of Homemaking in Seoul’s Public Space’, IVSA Conference 2023 – Seeing Beyond Dualisms: Visual Sociology in Local and Global Contexts, Multimedia University of Kenya (Jun 2023)
Youth, Imagining Futures: Towards a Critical Project on “Transition” (co-presented). IACS Conference 2019 – Fluid Circuits: Cultures of Knowledge After the Digital Turn, Silliman University, Dumaguete (Aug 2019)
Curating Material Pasts: Articulations of Hong Kong Urban Life through Second-hand Goods on Display. IVSA Conference 2019 – Visual Imperatives/Visual Uncertainties, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (Jun 2019)
Digital Urbanities or 2.0 Memorials? Archiving Hong Kong Life and Space. IACS Conference 2017 – Worlding: Asia Beyond/After Globalization, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul (Jul 2017)
Signs of Desire: Consumption and Urban Space in Hong Kong (co-presented). Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 2016, The University of Sydney (Dec 2016)
Curating Trash: On “Urbane Living”, IACS Conference 2015 – Undercurrents: Unearthing Hidden Social and Discursive Practices. Airlangga University, Surabaya (Aug 2015)
EXHIBITIONS
2018
Designing the Spectacle: Pre-Digital Graphic Design Practices (with B.S.H. Kwok), Gallery D, Jockey Club Innovation Tower, PolyU Design, Hong Kong