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...

The accessible toilet is an absolute necessity for the people living with a disability and mobility issue. Its design features enable them to use the toilet as independently and safely as possible. Conventionally, the designing practice of accessible toilet is about compliance with the design guidelines, including a long list of dimensional standards and regulations. But to the physically impaired, such practice is flawed due to its inadequacy of designing a toilet that could adapt the needs of the physically challenged group. Based on this insight, the project introduces a brand-new practice of creating a more user-friendly accessible toilet design, by presenting the scenarios of using the accessible toilets to observe the user's interactions with the items in the accessible toilet. Followed by a summarization of the user’s concern, the goal of the project is to encourage us to think about “How the users use?” when designing accessible facilities.

漁民。娛聞 (Fishermen and those things) is a collection of books introducing the life of fishermen in Sha Tau Kok, a mysterious place to many, where people live in harmony with human warmth. After getting along with these fishermen in Sha Tau Kok, I found that although the fishery industry has been declining in this place, the fishermen have brought out an alternative, yet fascinating life. The text and images of the collection vividly revealed their daily life, ranging from the interesting operation of mariculture rafts to their fishing expertise, and from their unique ways of life to a variety of stories behind. By getting to know them more through the books, you will find that fishing is no longer just a profession, but also an entertainment and family fun. The book could bring you a new concept of fishery and fishermen.

This research is a design project aimed at promoting fitness training. Fitness exercise is a physical training exercise. The purpose of this design is to hope the beginner has an easier medium to learn fitness training, which will attract their attention and interest. The design project includes adding additional fitness teaching in the park and supplementing the elements in the current teaching board of the park. There wish arouse citizens' awareness of fitness training and expand the possibility of teaching board design. Secondly, to increase the fun elements beginner, the fitness training method is designed as a card game in my project. I hoping to make beginners understand fitness through the interaction of cards.

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.

The “Intergenerational Cooking Project” aims to enhance communication and create memories between the elderly and young people. After documenting and analysing the living patterns of grandparents, it was discovered that many elderly wished that they could spend more time with their grandchildren, meet their old friends, and relive the good old days. This project proposes to initiate potlucks as a medium to bring these different people together once again. In every potluck, they can design their own dish based on the given templates which facilitates them to work together and document the cooking process. In the long term, it can be hosted as a workshop in elderly centres by different organisations, but also for anyone who wants to use this to bond with their own family members.

Hong Kong has more than 90.000 families living in subdivided units (SDU), single room 10 square meter apartments. They are shared on average by 3 people with little to no privacy. Among them are over 37.000 elementary school children between the age of 6 to 13 years. For their daily studies they have to utilize their environment with all its limitations. This leads to ergonomical compromises, such as no back support, too low sitting surfaces, too high table plates or crouched corner positions. Comfor:t:able is set up in a way to transform formerly unused space in a better way. The chair can be used as a neck and kneeling pillow when it's not in use and the differently sized cushions allow adjustments to childrens growth. The table element has two configurations, a sociable small tea table which can be positioned on the bed between two people for leisure activities, and secondly a study table that tucks half away under the bed, occupying less room into the public space.

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.

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.

Tai Po has been designated as a site of special scientific interest with important ecological value. Tai Po Egretry is the cradle of egrets for generations. However, under inquiry, it was found that most people knew very little about the wildlife here. Until 2017, tree pruning works were carried out by the LCSD at Tai Po Egretry, led to a large number of injury of egrets. The incident has brought the public attention to Tai Po Egretry. Up to now, although the problem of egret dropping excrement has not been solved yet, Tai Po residents have successfully worked out a corresponding solution to coexist with egrets. Unfortunately, Tai Po residents still do not know enough about Tai Po Egretry.Hence, the project attempts to record the daily life of egrets with interesting graphs, making people understand the egrets. Additionally, the emergence of the mobile Observation bus stop allows the public to appreciate the egrets and learn about the ecology of egrets in Tai Po from their daily life.

This project is a picture book baking class that allows special education needs students and mainstream students to learn and create stories together with handmade cookies. This integrated education not only provides a platform for students to learn how to make handmade cookies but also learn from the picture book and create their own story. The class will start by arranging both SEN students and mainstream students to form groups and listen to a picture book together. Each group of students needs to create a four-grid-comics base in the storyline of the picture book by handmade butter cookies. They also need to use the template of dialogue balloons to tell the story. Their work will sell as a charity. People who buy the product are supporting this kind of education and show appreciation to student's work. Besides, the handmade cookies show in comics way that can give meaning to the audience. This is an innovative way of storytelling. People buy cookies and buy a story.