Kam-Fai Chan teaches Social Design in Hong Kong. He comes from a hybrid background in psychology, comparative literature, media studies, and multimedia production. He is interested in community-led design research, social design philosophy, and contemporary discourses on design and social change. He initiates and curates several local intellectual projects, including Mundi (2017; independent publication on critical theories and praxis in the East Asian context), Omnia Omnibus (since 2016; seminars and publication on contemporary technology and forms of life), and the Ackbar Abbas translation project (since 2018). He is a founding member of Soil Trust (since 2021), an eco-social project on interspecies intervention and soil-to-soil economy.
