Tung Chung (un)rooted: Afterlives of Tung Chung Agricultural Cooperative Society
This project investigates North Lantau’s agrarian past through the lens of the Tung Chung Agricultural Cooperative Society (TCACS)—one of the last 26 such systems in Hong Kong. As Tung Chung transforms into a strategic “airport city”, the initiative employs participatory ethnography and speculative storytelling to document disappearing land-sea networks and rural symbiosis. By reactivating these heritage archives, the project prototypes the cooperative as a “third space”, where agrarian wisdom informs future community welfare and urban design, forging new frameworks for post-agrarian care.
This project investigates North Lantau’s agrarian past through the lens of the Tung Chung Agricultural Cooperative Society (TCACS)—one of the last 26 such systems in Hong Kong. As Tung Chung transforms into a strategic “airport city”, the initiative employs participatory ethnography and speculative storytelling to document disappearing land-sea networks and rural symbiosis. By reactivating these heritage archives, the project prototypes the cooperative as a “third space”, where agrarian wisdom informs future community welfare and urban design, forging new frameworks for post-agrarian care.
- 2025
- Grantee: Stephanie Kwong, Silvia Tse, Christy Leung
Stephanie Kwong double majored in Politics and Public Administration and Language and Communication in her undergraduate studies. She brings four years of experience in Hong Kong’s social purpose sector, where her focus spans from neighbourhood activation, women empowerment, impact property, and youth development. Stephanie is a D. H. Chen Foundation Scholar, and is currently a member of the Scholarship Programme’s Social Good Fund Task Force.
Silvia Tse holds a degree in English Literature and has since been working across Hong Kong’s heritage and sustainable housing sectors, specialising in ethnographic research, community engagement, and policy advocacy. A poet and organiser, her practice explores speculative histories, material culture, and ecology—often through food and waste. She has co-founded digital and physical literary initiatives centring diasporic poetics and nomadic reading spaces.
Christy Leung holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Economics, and is a CFA charterholder. She has four years of experience in Hong Kong’s social purpose sector, focusing on corporate social responsibility, community engagement, and NGO talent development. She is also a freelance contributor, photographer, and multimedia artist.