Attendance: By invitation only. For more information, contact: [email protected].

The concept of the contemporary sharing movement, increasingly ubiquitous, is influencing the exchange of goods, data, images, services, and spaces of residence and work globally. Hong Kong’s scale, growth, and political situation have favored various forms of sharing experiments. Peer-to-peer local technologies, the architectures of informal rooftop communities, and the urbanisms originated from the so-called “umbrella revolution” serve as points of departure for a discussion around the potential of the culture of sharing. This series will explore the spatial, social, public, and private consequences of the sharing movement for the construction of more aspirational forms of public life.

This event is hosted by Mina Park. Food will be prepared by Eva Franch, Alan Lo, and Mina Park.

The Paella Series is a format that aims to produce intense conversations on delicate subjects through a space of intimacy and quotidian action, in this case cooking and eating. Held in a state of floating attention and distracted thoughts, conversations between a select group of guests are private but recorded and archived for possible public access.

*Participants: Ethel Baraona, Merve Bedir, Rony Chan, Janice Leung Hayes, Jason Hilgefort, Michael Leung, Alan Lo, Lionello Lunesu, Mina Park, Michelle Poon, Markus Wernli, Ada Wong

Moderators: Eva Franch, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Marisa Yiu

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Definition Series:

Smallness

Date: July 8th

Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Location: Spring Workshop, 3/F, Remex Centre (enter on Heung Yip Rd), 42 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Aberdeen

Attendance: Open to the public (RSVP required)

“In mid-2014, the population of Hong Kong was 7.24 million, including 7.03 million Usual Residents and 0.22 million Mobile Residents. During the period 2010 to 2014, the population grew at an average annual rate of 0.8%.” Hong Kong’s limited physical territory and its population growth have increased the development of spaces for micro-living, augmenting the already high density of the city. Definition Series: Smallness, part of the Design Trust Futures Studio Public Review, examines how “smallness,” also understood as a form of agility in the face of seemingly fixed structures, can be operative in architecture. Addressing both public and private spaces, participants will present a definition of the notion of “smallness” and its impact upon the development of the city of Hong Kong.

Definition Series: Smallness is hosted in partnership with Spring Workshop.

The Definition Series invites participants to produce their own definitions of a given term, constructing a multifaceted edifice around particular words and their contemporary usage in specific fields, contexts, and practices.

*Participants: James Acuna, Ethel Baraona, Sylvia Chan, Zoey Chan, Gary Chang, Nelson Chen, Arnault Castel, Donald Choi, Jose Fu, Cesar Harada, Patrick Hwang, Stephen Ip, DickWai Lai, Ricky Lai, Tat Lam, Lesley Lau, Leslie Lu,  Vivian Ng, Duncan Pescod, Suhanya Raffel, Cole Roskam, Eric Schuldenfrei, Xavier Tsang, Ada Wong, Samuel Wong, Sara Wong, Stanley Wong, Wendy Wu, Eric Yim, Ffion Zhang

Moderators: Eva Franch, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Marisa Yiu

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Manifesto Series:

Scale

Date: July 8th

Time: 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Location: Spring Workshop, 3/F, Remex Centre (enter on Heung Yip Rd), 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Attendance: Open to the public (RSVP required)

The notion of scale allows us to understand relationships between space and context; born out of historical precedents and conventions of knowledge production, scale is a shifting cultural construct. Discussions about scale during the end of the last century in Europe focused on reevaluating scale in accordance with emerging infrastructural spaces and typologies. With homogeneous city models appearing worldwide, ideas of scale have been disseminated as yet another force of globalization. What scalar conditions are endemic to the contemporary reality of global metropoli in Southeast Asia and elsewhere? What can be understood from this context in Hong Kong? Manifesto Series: Scale presents seven-minute manifestos by a group of participants who will each take a position on scale in Hong Kong.

Manifesto Series: Scale is hosted in partnership with Spring Workshop.

The Manifesto Series invites participants to denounce a present or past condition; proclaim an alternative present, past, or future situation; and indicate a strategy or method of action.

*Participants: James Acuna, Ethel Baraona, Arnault Castel, Gary Chang, Sylvia Chan, Zoey Chan, Nelson Chen, Donald Choi, Jose Fu, Cesar Harada, Stephen Ip, DickWai Lai, Ricky Lai, Tat Lam, Lesley Lau, Leslie Lu, Vivian Ng, Suhanya Raffel, Cole Roskam, Eric Schuldenfrei, Xavier Tsang, Samuel Wong, Sara Wong, Stanley Wong, Wendy Wu, Eric Yim, Ffion Zhang

Moderators: Eva Franch, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Marisa Yiu

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Walking Series: 

Legibility

Date: July 9th

Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location: Sai Ying Pun, Sheung Wan, Wanchai, North Point, HK

Attendance: Open to the public (RSVP needed)

The collective imaginary of a city is made up of recognizable icons, signs, symbols, ratios, chromatic palettes, smells, acoustic signatures, and other multiple modalities of perception. Moving through Hong Kong, from its continuous interior walkways to its sidewalks and onto the upper platforms of the city’s tram infrastructure, one perceives a city from particular types of vantage points.

These perspectives, or geographies of perception, constitute an identitary signature of Hong Kong’s urban imaginary. Moreover, we now navigate the city with the aid of digital technologies that guide us each time through a different optimized experience. Our ability to read the city has shifted; neon signs are being substituted by pop-up ads, for example.

In a time where the urban and the digital are colliding, how should we read the city? What forms of experiencing the built environment are obsolete, and which are emerging? Walking Series: Legibility is a series of city tours led by local and international experts that will each render visible and legible a particular layer of the urban fabric and public life.

The Walking Series is an event that invites individuals both familiar with and foreign to a particular territory to lead a walking exercise through its streets or paths. Borrowing from examples of guided tours, the Walking Series unveils latent realities through a real-time experience of navigation and transit.

*Participants: Adonian Chan, Eva Franch, Maggie Lin, Brian Kwok, Kevin Mak, Pauline Tsang

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Cabaret Series:

Excess

Date: July 9th

Time: 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Location: Studio 9 design gallery and studio, Wong Chuk Hang

Attendance: Open to the public (RSVP required)