Melody YIU
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Jan 2022 | Creative workshop with theatre students on Space Design | co-curated by School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts of HKAPA and WKCD Freespace | Collaborator: Artist Pak Sheung-Cheun About TechBox: a four four-year collaborative platform established between Freespace and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing…
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Abstract: “Cultural center” is a new type of architecture and institution that has emerged since WWII and has become a model for many contemporary cultural institutions. It reflects the physical realization of the European welfare-state cultural policy, especially in Britain and France. With reference to the European cases, this paper examines three major cultural centers…
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Lecture for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice Before we begin this week’s discussion on performance in urban space, it would be helpful to revisit the two types of cultural participation based on the distinctive role of cultural producer (performer) and cultural consumer (audience). Typical participatory art invite the audience “to join”…
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Lecture for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice Cultural architecture is a container of public and cultural activities. The previous discussion on the idea of place in urban planning demonstrated a return of cultural institutions to focus on public engagement in recent decades. As civil awareness arise and state cultural budget decline,…
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Lecture for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice The previous session laid out an overview of our investigation that positions Cultural Architecture as not just an object. An important concept embedded in it is the idea of Place – besides the physical environment, it is the intangible memory for individuals or collective…
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Lecture 1+2 for cuhk SoA elective 5731A – Architecture and Cultural Practice This image reminds us of period drama set in 19th century Europe, where many scenes of courting and socialization were happening in the theatre while the performance was a mere backdrop. At that time cultural activities were the few public occasion for people…
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urbd5710 | 2021-22 | Studio partner: Jessica Cheung @shanzhai city Studio Website | Instagram The Urban Collaborative Studio explore urban design opportunities in various scale from regional network to community public space in response to contemporary urban issues and challenges. The studio builds upon the topic of collaboration, to investigate how networks and communities function…
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arch5731A | 2021/22 T1 | elective course for MSUD and MArch students. This course investigates the role of cultural architecture in urban context, asking the question of how cultural form and practice is situated in the city and affect its development. It will be a dialogue about the two aspects – (1) Cultural Forms (aka…
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arch5721 urbd5703 | 2021/22 T1 | MSUD and MArch | co-teach with Prof. Hendrik Tieben Cities in the 21st century face a range of urgent challenges. This course explores the history of urbanisation and its theories, identifying reasons why cities evolved the way they did and where we potentially could find answers to the pressing…
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the core objects and the overlapped setting It all began with the note from the director team as “there should be a series of related/unrelated objects”, and a narrative slowly emerges and connecting these objects together to create the setting. It was never the idea of a simple “room” or separated “scene” but conceived as…