The exhibit features the ideas of social interaction between the older architectural settlements and local residents, encasing the transformation of the in-between urban spaces with spectacular local social and cultural identity beyond the planned urban fabric.

The team aims to investigate the distinctive urban fabric of Kowloon City – dwellings, lifestyle and public space, with the use of multi-layer LED light engraving model to create a glimpse of the district and reveal the multiple layers of public space. The art installation showcases scenarios from the transformation of rooftop settlements to martial arts school, residue space used as shops underneath the staircases, to the physical structures of temple in the streets mutated throughout the old time.

Will this urban space and distinctive lifestyle, however, gradually fade out due to urban re-development, or such local quality can be retained through preservation, transformation or renewal? We hope that the exhibit can showcase the community’s extraordinary uniqueness in the ordinary daily lives, the dynamic human interaction in the static environment, and the sense of vitality in the urban stillness.