Place Making: Building Community

Through Public Space Design

Introduction

Date: 7th Sept 2010

Willy H.Y. Kwong

willy@designinghongkong.com
Designing Hong Kong

 non-profit organization
 promote the health, safety, convenience and the general,
social, and economic welfare of the community of Hong
Kong today,

undertake research and studies into the design and
development of Hong Kong's living environment;

educate and raise the awareness among the community
on the need to protect and enhance the living environment


www.designinghongkong.com


Willy Kwong Ho-yin, hoyinkwong@gmail.com
 Our Works:

Protect Pak Nai from development of luxury housing

 Forming alliance with other conversation parties

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Photos collections and on-site research
 Facebook Fan Page

 Petition campaign

 600 Objection letters collected and sent to Planning

Department
 Our Works:
Photos collected from alliances
 Our Works:
Say No to Ventilation Building outside ifc mall
Prevent the degradation of Central Waterfront
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Online Petition: more than 10,000 signatures collected
 Exhibition at ifc

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Online objections
Our Works:
 Place Making: Building Community Through
Public Space Design
Ice-Breaking
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Spend 10 mins to write down answers on the following
questions:
 Who are you? Nick name?Draw an icon that representing
you!
 Where do you live?
 Do you like the area you are living?
 What are your strengths?
 Why choosing this course?
 Place Making: Building Community Through
Public Space Design
Ice-Breaking con't
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And complete the mindmap below
 Place Making: Building Community Through
Public Space Design

In this course, you will learn...

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Roles of public space;
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A better understanding on
community building;
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Use your creativity to
provide solutions;
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Methodologies to carry out
research

and also....

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A lot of field visits;
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A lot of presentations;
 Introductory Project:
Beauty and Ugly City – Phrase 1
Phrase 1 (Con't)

 Project Scope: Kowloon City Park and the surroundings

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Site Visit Date: 3:30 - 4:30pm, 7th Sep 2010
 Objectives:
 2 students/ group
 Prepare a 10min Powerpoint presentation to talk about (I)
Beauty and (II) Ugly places in that area.

 In the presentation, you need to...

I. take photos, and explain with reasons
II. tell me where you take the photos (simplest way: Mark on Map)
III. send me (hoyinkwong@gmail.com) the softcopy of the PPT,
which would be uploaded onto Facebook
 Introductory Project:
Beauty and Ugly City – Phrase 1
Phrase 1 (Con't)

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Date of Powerpoint Submission: Before 10th Sep 2010

 Date of Presentation: 2:30pm, 10th Sep 2010

 Assessment Criteria:
 Design (Storyline) of Presentation Materials (Max:3)
 Precise and detail explanations on Each photo displayed
(Max:3)
 Presentation Skills (Max:3)
 Time management (Submission and Presentation) (Max:1)
Some Examples