Chuntian Hu is the Founder and Director of Canal Dream Community Interest Company (CD), an award-winning nonprofit arts and cultural organisation based in London. Her recent practice focuses on creating waterway-based arts events in the UK, using art as a tool for canal regeneration and social change. By producing multi-arts festivals on the canals, she fosters dialogue among art, nature, community, and heritage, encouraging cross-sector collaboration. Chuntian also explores waterways as a medium for international cultural exchange.

Chuntian has grown CD from her Royal College of Art (RCA)  graduation project into a thriving organisation, producing 14 events along Regent’s Canal, including the Canal Dream Art Festival (2023 & 2024), which she founded, and collaborations with the London Design Festival (LDF 2023), the Inland Waterways Association’s (IWA) Canalway Cavalcade (2022–2024), and the Aranya Theater Festival (2023). Her events attract significant audiences, with over 700 visitors booked for a single event during the LDF. 

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Chuntian has built a strong network across the canal and creative communities, collaborating with over 10 boats transformed into floating art spaces, including Word on the Water, London’s iconic book barge, and Global Generation’s Floating Garden. She has also engaged with over 300 creatives across performance, music, poetry, film, and visual arts. Her contributions have been widely recognised, including being featured in RCA News as one of seven distinguished alumni during the 10th anniversary celebration of RCA Service Design in 2023. CD has received several awards under her leadership, including the IWA’s Marcus Boudier Trophy for the best-decorated boat at the Canalway Cavalcade  (2022 & 2024). 

With a multidisciplinary background in art, design, and social enterprise, Chuntian is a skilled cross-sector collaborator, blending creativity, strategic thinking and production coordination to deliver transformative culture projects with a social purpose.
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