Navigating the Uncertain Future of the Old-Fashioned Stationery Store UID: 3036107505 The director’s name: Lok Shuet Ying Cherie This video showcases a stationery store called “Dr. Stationery Boutique” located on Hong Kong Island. (Google Map, 2024) The camera initially establishes the store’s context, panning across the surrounding neighborhood to reveal the store’s unique positioning – the east side serves as the entrance to an upscale residential building, while the west side is dominated by a large Starbucks. Compared to the surrounding modern buildings, the stationery store and the clothing store below it appear quite dilapidated. (Figure 1) Figure 1 Original

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Name: Lok Shuet Ying Cherie UID: 3036107505 In the book “Imagining Urban Futures,” author Carl Abbott discusses the works of science fiction writers James Blish and Stephen Baxter. It introduces the concept of mobile cities. Abbott highlights Blish’s “Cities in Flight,” which introduces the idea of mobile cities, and Baxter’s “Walker City,” a more plausible but limited version of a mobile city that can adapt to significant geophysical changes without being tied to a specific location. The passage presents a challenge: traditional cities are stationary, spreading from a center without moving. However, science fiction writers can imagine cities that can

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Stepping into a vintage stationery store in Hong Kong, with its white backdrop and red signage, creates a unique atmosphere that resonates with a sense of nostalgia and charm. The presence of weathered yellowed cabinets and aged papers further enhances this sentiment, transporting visitors to a bygone era where the act of writing was treasured and cherished. In such a setting, people are imbued with a feeling of delight and anticipation. The physicality of the store itself holds a special allure, drawing individuals in to explore the wide array of stationery items. The tactile experience of browsing through shelves filled

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The documentary focuses on several major events of a family that has lived in Singapore for generations, and shows some of the urban problems faced by Singapore as a whole. The family’s approach not only continues tradition but also compromises with reality. This allows the audience to connect with themselves and think about what persistence they have made and what compromises they have made.

Thank you for the video, it was well worth watching and affected me. I traveled to Cambodia in middle school and practiced social practice in a garment factory for a few days. I saw Chinese groups, foreign scholars and local upper-class groups, as well as poor lower-class workers, small traders and fruit farmers in Cambodia. What was your original intention that made you choose to focus on a middle-class man and woman to unfold the story? Do you want to show the results of Cambodia’s rapid development? Or do you know and understand their archetypes in life?   Lok Shuet

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Name: Lok Shuet Ying CherieUID: 3036107505 Chapter Three of “The Practice of Everyday Life” by Michel de Certeau (1984) explores the experience of individuals walking in the city. He argues that walkers engage in a passive act within the constraints of urban layouts and planning, but they also have the agency to create and transform space through their actions. As he states, every walker is thus a ‘practitioner of the city,’ a ‘voyeur’ who performs the city by traversing it. This statement implies that walkers in the urban environment take on the roles of observers and experiencers, navigating the city

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