Author: Mingyao

Cat Links Workshop 3: Designing the Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3]: Disappearing City: General Post Office

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You Tube link: https://youtu.be/_v_SNZ_Eug0 This essay aims to explore the disappearance and existence of the General Post Office from the perspective of individuals and society. The General Post Office (GPO), established in 1976 in Central, Hong Kong, is facing demolition. Its fifty years of service and distinctive modernist design have elicited nostalgia from many citizens. After my research, I seen it as a mark of new era. Since the 1960s, with Hong Kong’s international commercial success and decade-long population growth, the government has implemented land reclamation projects along Victoria Harbour, giving rise to the conception of the fourth-generation GPO, which

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 8: Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response] Imaginary CyberCities

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Reading M. Christine Boyer’s text, “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities,” introduced me to some new perspectives on our future in modern cities. Here, I want to share my feelings about the concept of “CyberCities” and the imagination of future individuals. Boyer uses the term “CyberCities” to describe the blending of virtual and physical spaces, where the traditional understanding of geography is disrupted by digital networks. We should note that the article was written in 1992, when social media had not yet gone viral around the world. It seems that Boyer assumed that what social media would bring to people

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Cat Links Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Question to Steve

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When I look into this movie, I noticed that the unique Long Lenses you used are usually combines with people interaction. Why are you using these long lenses? I’m also wondering the space’s concept in your movie. I learnt from class that the space should be considered “dynamic”. However, It seems that the protagonist’s house happened so much things, which made it to be able to represent multiple emotions, or feeling of space. I wonder how you look at this room you created. Does this room, you created, have some relationship with the shot that one only bright glass window

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Cat Links Fieldwork

Field work broadcast-Vanishing building: the General Post Office

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You Tube video link: v(15) fieldwork broadcast CCHU9034 – YouTube   Transcript: Liu (00:00) Good evening, I’m Liu Mingyao. Wong (00:03) I’m Wong Tsz Cheuk. Liu (00:04) Yeah. Today we are going to talk about the CCHU 9034s board cast, and we are going to revisiting the significant, yet controversial transformation of Hong Kong’s Central district, where a very old building have 50 years old history, which is a general post office, landing in Central, is going to be demolished. Wong (00:27) Yes, Liu. It’s a part of the border the redevelopment plan aiming to transform the Central into a

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Cat Links Lecture 4: Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[Reading Response] Walking in the City

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Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life offers a philosophical and social scientific perspective on urban living, particularly in “Walking in the City“, which explores the relationship between pedestrians and urban spaces. This work prompts a reflection on the identity of a “walker” and their role in the urban landscape, which further suggests that urban navigation is shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and collective behaviors. However, questions involves as I trying to find who are the walkers. My tutor said that anyone living within the city can be considered a “walker” through their engagement with and interpretation of the city’s

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