WAN CHAI: WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Graduation project under advisory of Associate Dean, Prof. Hector Rodriguez
“The urban is, therefore, pure form; a place of encounter, assembly, simultaneity. This form has no specific content, but is a center of attraction and life. It is an abstraction, but unlike a metaphysical entity, the urban is a concrete abstraction, associated with practice."Henri Lefebvre
Introduction
A space is made up of buildings and residents. The appearance of the city is formed out of the combination of buildings while residents are the heart of the city, pumping nutrients and bringing life to it. Wan Chai, as a city space, is not an exception, forming by buildings and residents. Based on this idea, the whole project focuses on the appearance of buildings and collecting first hand data from residents, their stories and memories on the space where they are every day.
Since things are to be discovered, investigated and preserved in Wan Chai: its ever changing environment and narration of residents arouse my curiosity. My work is a research‐based interactive installation work that to explore the seeing, telling, recalling memories and imagination of the space. It also provokes others to think about their relationship with community via text and photography.