Jockey Club HKU Rural-Urban Design Project

Rural Urban Framework: Building a Collective Identity

What does it mean to be part of a community?

How can we work together for positive change?

How can we collaborate and work with others less fortunate than ourselves?

How can design contribute towards building a collective identity?

Two teams of students from Hong Kong travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Fujian, China to engage these questions through the Jockey Club HKU Rural-Urban Design Project. At each location students engaged local people and worked directly with local contractors to build new structures that were designed to enable community events and interaction. Each project is an experiment with limited resources and construction techniques and each attempts to trigger a step by step process of community formation.

In Mongolia, residents now have a place for training, reading, playing, district meetings and even gardening in a climate when it reaches -30C during the winter. In Fujian, students took on two abandoned tulous, or traditional mud-walled buildings and inserted new attractor programmes, creating new public activity spaces and kick-starting a process of gradual transformation.

EXHIBITION:
Date: 26th -27th October (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 12nn – 6pm
Venue: PMQ Courtyard

The exhibition demonstrates the impact design can have and that the process of building itself is a method to bring people together for collective action.

WORKSHOP:
Date: 27th October (Sunday)
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: PMQ Courtyard
* All ages welcome

Student Sharing:
Date: 26th October (Saturday) 3pm & 5pm ; 27th October (Sunday) 5pm
Venue: PMQ Courtyard
* All ages welcome

Join us for a workshop to cut, assemble and build your own Mongolian or Tulou community space. Work with the team and learn about their involvement as well as getting hands-on experience of the design process itself. See how your design could empower the community!

Organised by:
Rural Urban Framework, The Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

Funded by:
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust

Partnering Institutions:
HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
Hong Kong Design Institute
 

Website: http://rufwork.org/index.php?/project/building-a-collective-identity/​
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rufwork
Instagram: @ruralurbanframework