The Exchange is a creative hub for collaboration and innovation. Our aim is to create space for scholars, artists and the public to explore the social sciences through participation, knowledge exchange and ideas generation. SIGN UP to keep in touch sspp-exchange@kcl.ac.uk
Although the space is only open to the public on occasion during holiday periods, our researchers are continuing to work with artists and other partners to learn and share innovative methodologies and pedagogy.
Exhibitions 2025-26
White Noise of Belonging: The Intimate Spaces of Female and Queer Overseas Chinese
3 – 14 November 2025
White Noise of Belonging: The Intimate Spaces of Female and Queer Overseas Chinese is co-curated by QueerPatch and The Wishing Fountain Project, and run in collaboration with Dr Yanran Yao from the Lau China Institute at King's College London. This exhibition reimagines belonging through the overlooked, persistent “white noise” of diasporic life - the quiet yet unyielding voices of female and queer overseas Chinese. Drawing on the philosophy of “the home as a museum,” it transforms intimate domestic settings into sites where memory, affect, and imagination converge, blurring the boundaries between public and private, past and present, collective and individual. Centering their lived spaces, the exhibition foregrounds the in-betweenness of female and queer overseas Chinese in today’s world politics. Through photography, sound, performance, and everyday objects, the artists explore new ways of surviving, caring, and belonging in a world of flux.
Veminism: Imaging Intersectional Gendered Violence
8 September – 8 October 2025
The Imaging Intersectional Gendered Violence initiative at King’s College London was created to explore how visual and embodied methodologies (VEM) - including photovoice, body-mapping, film, poetry and performance - can illuminate the often-hidden realities of intersectional gendered violence. Curated under the leadership of Jelke Boesten, Cathy McIlwaine, Rachel Kerr and Suzanne Hall, the project brings together academics, artists and activists to document, analyse and express experiences of harassment, violence, war-related trauma and structural oppression through creative research practices. It foregrounds survivors’ voices and lived realities — transforming data into powerful visual and performative narratives - and emphasises solidarity, resistance and the ethical visibility of pain as a route to justice and change.
Lost & Found in Hong Kong: the Unsung Chinese Heroes at D-Day
16 July - 2 September 2025
Lost & Found in Hong Kong: The Unsung Chinese Heroes at D-Day at King's College London presented a powerful, recently discovered chapter of World War II history. Curated by Angus Hui and John Mak, the exhibition retraces the story of 24 Chinese naval officers - among them Lam Ping‑yu - who trained in Britain and went on to take part in the D-Day landings and Operation Dragoon during the liberation of southern France. Through personal diaries, photographs, letters and multimedia displays, the show illuminates their undocumented contributions. What began with a single war-time diary uncovered in a derelict Hong Kong building in 2015 has grown into an international exhibition, restoring the legacy of these unsung heroes and highlighting Hong Kong’s hidden role in shaping global history.