Been Living Here…

Those were the days when people were living in villages based with all sorts of industries, such as fishery, farming, mining, wood craftsmanship, etc, that comprised Hong Kong. Houses were shaped and grown with their occupants over time.

Those were the days when people were living in villages based with all sorts of industries, such as fishery, farming, mining, wood craftsmanship, etc, that comprised Hong Kong. Houses were shaped and grown with their occupants over time.

 

Urbanization has been gradually swooping down the traditional villages. Before the culture is long gone, this project “Been Living Here… “ would like to capture the ordinary life of the inhabitants and analyze the informal development of the living clusters with the industries in the past. Moving on from phase one – graphic documentation of a farming village Ma Shi Po, phase two will be a village library in San Tong, Lam Tsuen, a traditional village that is modulating with the city. The spectrum of new and old life stories will be archived and shared in the library in all mediums such as words, prints, food, sounds, etc. in the workshops or events.

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2022
Grantee: Chi Ho Chung
Organisation: CAOMAN

CAOMAN was founded in 2021 by a group of people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds across architecture, design and social studies. Through the documentation and study of the local self-built community, the endless possibilities in the spaces of our everyday mundane could be re-discovered, to learn and re-learn from each other.

CAOMAN cherishes the connections between human, space, and nature. They see from the perspective of the grassroots and write the everyday stories about relationships that constructed their homeland.