Documentary of traditional industryWith the time goes on, there are various of the traditional industry are facing marginalized and be eliminated by the times. The traditional industries are important social context, they have their own cultural value and unique skills, which have taken root in Hong Kong many years ago. In order to raise public awareness in the traditional industry and local culture aspect, we are going to create a "documentary of the traditional industry of Ngau Tau Kok Market'', in order to record down the story, history, cultural value, product, tools and so on. In our social project, we found out 7 potential old industries to create a documentary. Taking Ngau Tau Kok market as the context, we conducted a series of field visits and interventions to the old shops. The project has record down the background history, stories, tools, products and relationships of the six old shops in Ngau Tau Kok Market by communication and information collection process.
This is a narrative project explores the correlation between ""The Unity of Heaven and Man"" and ""The alleyways in Kowloon Walled City"", depicting how an ideal imaginary metropolis could be formed based on the complexity of alleyways, and interpreting certain kind of human activities that could be held in such a nature-humankind creation.
“The Unity of Heaven and Man” is a traditional Chinese philosophy, which highlights the fundamental significance of nature to human affairs. ""Heaven"" represents ""nature"" and ""god"", while ""Man"" refers to ""humankind"" and ""society"". It is also interpreted as four spatial features in this main concept, which includes Tree-like Extension, Hierarchical Levels, Enclosure and Semi-Openness. A whole new vision of a continuous space is shown under the tectonics of WUXING, a form of ancient Chinese geomancy, which includes wood, fire, earth, metal and water, and represents specific seasons for each zone, provokes a certain order and different activities.
Documentary of traditional industryWith the time goes on, there are various of the traditional industry are facing marginalized and be eliminated by the times. The traditional industries are important social context, they have their own cultural value and unique skills, which have taken root in Hong Kong many years ago. In order to raise public awareness in the traditional industry and local culture aspect, we are going to create a "documentary of the traditional industry of Ngau Tau Kok Market'', in order to record down the story, history, cultural value, product, tools and so on. In our social project, we found out 7 potential old industries to create a documentary. Taking Ngau Tau Kok market as the context, we conducted a series of field visits and interventions to the old shops. The project has record down the background history, stories, tools, products and relationships of the six old shops in Ngau Tau Kok Market by communication and information collection process.
CoBuild aims to help young people to connect with their own community and other residents nearby. The direction of our design is to reform our community and connect to it because It is important to maintain a good relationship with your community as we are all living together and we should try our best to participate in it and contribute to it. As It is difficult for young people to participate in community activities and making decisions with the management system nowadays. An online mobile platform can be created for them as they usually like to express their opinions on different online platforms and their involvement in their own community can be increased.
Documentary of traditional industryWith the time goes on, there are various of the traditional industry are facing marginalized and be eliminated by the times. The traditional industries are important social context, they have their own cultural value and unique skills, which have taken root in Hong Kong many years ago. In order to raise public awareness in the traditional industry and local culture aspect, we are going to create a "documentary of the traditional industry of Ngau Tau Kok Market'', in order to record down the story, history, cultural value, product, tools and so on. In our social project, we found out 7 potential old industries to create a documentary. Taking Ngau Tau Kok market as the context, we conducted a series of field visits and interventions to the old shops. The project has record down the background history, stories, tools, products and relationships of the six old shops in Ngau Tau Kok Market by communication and information collection process.
An Alternative Perspective: Exploring the Nodes among Ordinary Community Living
The wet market where everyone would go in daily life involves many interactions and relations. However, by its closed community, outsiders are less easy to get involved in various small communities; people are less likely to find the nodes among their community.
This community project aims at relations-building, and also to provide an alternative perspective from mainstream discourse to explore the Fa Yuen Street market. By conducting several engagement methods, we have designed pleasant relations and developed a community network that allows us/outsiders to immerse deeper into the community. In addition, during different engagement processes, it induced more valuable values to the project, such as market operations, hidden rules, stakeholders' duties, etc...