Urban Design International Workshop Exhibition

25 students from the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Spatial Design Department of Ewha Womans University in Seoul initiated a joint urban design study workshop from July 8-19, 2024. This international collaboration explores the potential for cooperation in research and to engage in a series of new and interesting joint initiatives for the mutual benefit of our schools. It aims to initiate and promote a better reciprocal understanding between Hong Kong and Seoul, South Korea.

 

This study focusses on the case of Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong, which is considered to be the first industrial ‘satellite town’ to develop in the 1960s. as a form of complex urban regeneration in Hong Kong,' with a ‘balanced land-use pattern: compact, high-rise, high-density urban development during 1960–64. Sixty years later, it is a good time to revisit the prototype for the first new town with a proposal involving complex urban regeneration and with a meaningful parallel to the sixty-year history of PolyU Design. The study and workshop aim to consider how and what emerging lifestyles can be enhanced through a critical understanding of the urban systems and spatial structure of Kowloon Bay.

 

Working productively and proactively, the collaborating students developed their critical thinking and spatial design approaches towards architecture, street furniture, and spatial device design from a micro and meso scale, including a focus on environmental sustainability. This is a showcase of the output from the intensive work of these students in 6 groups to consider a future vision of Kowloon Bay.

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Coordinators:
Dr Hee Sun (Sunny) CHOI, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Jeeun LEE, College of Art & Design, Ewha Womans University