EoP Prototype 2.0: Flower Market Imaginaries

27 Nov 2025 – 24 Jan 2026 | Installation and Exhibition | as part of UABB 2025

This work presents the interim findings of the EoP research initiative, which brings together the fields of urban architecture, arts, and technology, sharing a common interest in the practice of participation as a creative tool. Taking the Prince Edward Flower Market as a site for investigation, we have conducted a series of field workshops over the past year to build a collective repository of “Imaginaries” about the place. The process involves the traditional “urban walk” to collect sight, sound, and story of the site, to including technology to mediate and participate in our creative process.

The result is here on display as 4 layers (from top to bottom):

keywords: the human input of keywords from the walk + extraction from official documents,
objects: technology-mediated capture of items and texture of the site,
sceneries: the generated+real images resulting from the “AI prompts” jamming session
conversations: in the drawers, the “behind-the-scenes” AI prompt and conversation.

The purpose of these workshops are less about seeking a definite “answer” for what the flower market should be, but rather a collective imagining of what it could be…… it progresses from left to right: (a) the stereotype of AI bias about the keyword “HK Flower Market” to (b) the sci-fi/ literature/ whimsical imagination of the place, (c) back to a grounded AI interpretation of official documents and news report… as it progresses, the boundary began to blur between what is “real” or “imaginaries”….

This is intended to be a work-in-progress (as Prototype 2.0), an evolving piece that we invite visitors to share with us their impressions and stories about the flower market. These stories may be used to produce new material to be added to the collection throughout the duration of the biennale.

這是EoP研究計劃的中期成果，結合了我們三個從建築+藝術+科技不同專業，共同思考關於「參與實踐」（participation）作為創意手段的可能性。我們以花墟為研究場景，通過大半年的工作坊試圖與參加者一起構建一個「花墟寄想」，內容包括影像/ 聲音/ 文字/ 故事…. 以及融合科技作為「參與者」的共同創作。

這裡展示的成果可以看成四個層次（從上到下）：

關鍵字：工作坊收集參與者書寫和公開文件提取 //
物件：科技介入處理工作坊收集花墟物件/材質/圖像 //
場景：工作坊參加者在地紀錄 + 與AI共同想像的場景 //
對話：生成圖像背後的視像描述和對話過程

這些工作坊的目的並非未來達到一個實現方案，反而是嘗試通過與科技對話探索我們關於花墟的想像還有什麼可能性。從左到右也記錄了：(a) 一開始AI回應的刻板印象，（b）參加者不斷投入各種奇想，（c）再對比AI閱讀規劃文件/報導的生成內容…. 中間的過程夾雜了現實與虛幻的影像，也開始讓人分不清楚什麼是「真實」或「想像」…

這個也是一個「進行中」的作品（原型2.0）。我們邀請參觀者共同參與，提供你們對花墟的想像或分享個人故事。在兩個月的展覽過程當中，我們希望繼續收集新的內容然後再融合到這個「共同想像檔案庫」當中。