Melody YIU
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August 2023 | Public space research and design for VeryHK Space+ Festival The second edition festival site is in a central-city location, Mong Kok, presenting a contrasting characteristic to Tin Shui Wai in both urban environment and demographics. The area is a vibrant and popular shopping and entertainment district popular among the younger generation, co-existing…
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May 23-24 2023 | performance design + production | part of SoA elective ARCH5431 As a design/artistic research project, this is a dialectic work-in-progress session instead of a choreographed and rehearsed performance. During the semester, students work with the dancer through workshops and discussions to sense their own bodies and their relationship with space. For…
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May-Nov 2023 | co-curator | exhibition as part of Time Space Existence 2023. THE “NEW” NEW TOWN is a study of current urban conditions in Hong Kong, based on the work of the MSc in Urban Design programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Through historical analysis, data-driven mapping and community engagement activities in…
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Mar 2023 | Presentation at Cultural Studies Association Taiwan annual conference and Department of Architecture, NCKU. Our understanding of “cultural infrastructure” is usually the landmark architecture like the museum or the opera house, such as the Lincoln Centre in New York City constructed in the 1960s. It is a grand structure sitting on the high…
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Jan 7-15 2023 | Public space tactical urbanism | for VeryHK Space+ Festival Design according to user and activity needs, the Tin Shui Plaza is transformed into a playground for leisure and action. Adopting the pallet+box modules built by the CUHK architecture team, the Urban Collaboratives Place-makers created information booths, a stage, way-finding graphics and…
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2021-23 | seminars and workshops, a learning platform of the SDGs and its relevance in urban design Adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is a framework set out to envision a better world. While it is conceived from a (inter) national policy perspective, its implementation relies on localisation efforts…
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Nov-Dec 2022 | Participatory Installation in collaboration with Veera Fung as Atelier In. | as part of deTour HK 2022 “Design As One” The setting of our home speaks about who we are, full of curious objects with embedded meanings that are often taken for granted. Household items like an ironing board or a cooking…
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Fall 2022/23 | cuhk SoA public lecture series design(ing) for change: Global Framework. Local Implementation. Global frameworks such as the UNSDG and the New Urban Agenda bring awareness to pressing urban issues and align actors across different sectors and geography. However, how to ground these concepts with implementation in practice remains to be a challenge…
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urbd5704 | 2022/23 T1 | MSUD Why do we do research and how do we study urban form and urban life? What is the significance of research to us as urban designers, architects, or simply responsible citizens? Nowadays, research seems to be easier than ever, as there is a vast amount of information readily…
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summer 2022 | A design workshop for women to develop gender-inclusive design thinking skills | Community Partner: Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centre | as part of Atelier In with Ms. Veera Fung Her Place Her Say is a (public space) design workshop series that aims to develop creative problem-solving skills for underprivileged women. Through…
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