Location, Imagination and Transformation
This project highlights Hong Kong urban cinema as an archive of descriptions through a cinematic urban topographical survey of everyday practices by the grassroots in contemporary Hong Kong. Through a series of architectural drawings, urban mappings, participatory photography, and analyses of varied layers of narratives in both real and reel cities, this project illustrates the complex nature of placemaking as an outcome of collective actions. The project is therefore attempting to reveal and expand a shared understanding of urban discourse in Hong Kong that transforms the material environment into a “lived” space, constructed by and accommodating all inhabitants in the city.
This project highlights Hong Kong urban cinema as an archive of descriptions through a cinematic urban topographical survey of everyday practices by the grassroots in contemporary Hong Kong. Through a series of architectural drawings, urban mappings, participatory photography, and analyses of varied layers of narratives in both real and reel cities, this project illustrates the complex nature of placemaking as an outcome of collective actions. The project is therefore attempting to reveal and expand a shared understanding of urban discourse in Hong Kong that transforms the material environment into a “lived” space, constructed by and accommodating all inhabitants in the city.
- 2023
- Grantee: Zhuozhang Li
As an urban scholar in everyday spatial politics, Zhuozhang Li’s research is established at the intersection of urban studies, visual cultural studies and critical theories. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, working on the Cambridge Room project with local communities and groups. He completed his PhD (2021) at the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA), Liverpool. Prior to Cambridge, he has been teaching and guest lecturing at several places including Canterbury School of Architecture, Liverpool School of Architecture, Hong Kong Academy of Film, Sheffield School of Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Beijing Institute of Technology and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Alongside teaching, his recent research-led curatorial and/or artistic practice includes ‘Planting and Placemaking (UCA, 2024)’, ‘Traces Under the Surface (Beijing, 2023)’, ‘Entre las Flores (Granada, 2022)’, and ‘Knowledge is Power (Tate Liverpool, 2020)’. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool.