Experience Cultural Space

  • 2021-22 Direct Grant for Research, CUHK Faculty of Social Science | Key issues and problems Most cultural buildings in Hong Kong are publicly funded, where the cultural institution carries a public mission and in essence, public space. However, this is a type of space often bypassed in the public space discourse. While cultural architecture is

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  • There was a paradigm change around the mid-20th century in urban design and planning, from the Modernist top-down planning manifesto to a concern with the human-scale urban experience. Urbanists such as Jane Jacobs advocated an observational approach to learning about how the city works (1961). This is a view shared by the Danish architect Jan

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  • The proposed research consists of three stages in response to the project’s aims. Stage 1 is a spatial analysis of existing conditions, followed by a fieldwork stage to investigate public space user experience, and a final stage to analyze data collected and formulate recommendations. It will be conducted in qualitative methods, including architectural mapping and

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