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Reading Response: Michel De Certeau AND Nezar AlSayyad

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The two article address how “voyeur” and “flaneur” applied in movie. The first article uses the movie” Rear Window” in 1954 to explain. Watching people watching people’s life is the idea of being seen, and that’s the lens of a movie. We have discussion is class whether in nowadays for example reality TV shows match the idea of “ being  seen”? and how is the security of our life being affected. For the second article, we also discussed by “ Walking in the city”, we experienced stories by reading to people and seeing things. Thats the concept of different perspective

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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In this reading, Abbas talks about Hong Kong as a colonial space that is viewed as disappeared. It is a space where history is preserved but excluded. It is somewhere, but also nowhere. During the progress of the preservation of historical sites in Hong Kong, it seems that the majority tend to “keep the history in their sight”. In cases presented like Hong Kong Cultural Center, Flagstaff House, the history is revisualized, remade, mix with contemporary elements and illustrations. The history seems to become an image meant for visual consumption, satisfying the aesthetic commodity economy. History becomes no longer history,

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Field Homework 1: After coronous outbreak

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1.Wide Angle: The housing estate seems to be empty in this situation 2.Focus: Medical masks are often hanged on the cloth hanger for reuse   3. Zoom: All, including labor workers, are wearing masks when going out 4.Crop: Even though people need to go out to buy necessities such as food and vegetables 5.Bird’s eye: The city seem to be empty 6.Worm’s eye: Although there are different clothing for winter, we seldom have to wear them 7.First-person view: Going outside is always a hard procedure 8.Skew angle: Old memories have been awakened in such a time 9.Perspective: Memorable spaces have

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[READING RESPONSE] ACKBAR ABBAS

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The text “Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space” written by Ackbar Abbas explores the idea of Hong Kong’s disappearing identity as a result of the city’s every-changing architecture and expiring colonial space.  Abbas seems to correlate the cities crumbling architectural and cultural identity to the growing vision of buildings as a commodity.  As the economy and the population grows, the old architecture which alludes to Hong Kong’s colonial history is no longer able to satisfy societies demands.  Therefore, the author raises the topic of preservation quite deliberately to illustrate his views on the idea of disappearance.  One

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Reading Response :MICHEL DE CERTEAU

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As I looked more and more into “The Practice of Everyday Life” by Michel De Certeau, I could see that all examples, and sometimes complicated explanations in just explaining everyday actions, fell ultimately onto the dynamics of the city space, place, and people in creating the meaning of the city. It has been seen throughout that the important thing is that we ourselves are in the city to exchange influences. The places in the city becomes spaces, as the unpredictable dynamics are created with the existence of people in the place. The dynamics in the city is not only affecting

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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The article explores the characteristics of Hong Kong architecture as disappearing colonial space and draws attention to the profit-driven preservation that reflects an ambivalence on Hong Kong’s seeking identity due to colonial historical contexts. One thing I found it worthy of pondering is the possibility of disappearing identity of one city concerning comparatively superficial building conservation. If zooming out to capture a broader image of the city as a whole, where (sometimes socially) conspicuous landmarks and star architecture vanish and blend into the background as part of the street scene, the sense of identity detached from the recognition of space

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas ]

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Abbas pinpointed the dissappeareance of history and local cultcure through acchitecture in Hong Kong. When you have a look buildings near by, there are either highrise residental buildings, or glassy commerial buildings, and that’s Hong Kong in people today’s mind. It is because over the years, old buildings in Chinese and colonial style were replaced by new highrise buildings more the less the same. The dissappeareance of post war history and collective memories goes together with replaced buildings and developments. For example, the Queen’s Pier. It conveys a lot post war memories like the Queen’s visit and new Governors arrive

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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The preservation and conservation of historical sites in Hong Kong indeed contribute to the disappearance of the traditional and colonial history in Hong Kong. Most architectures in Hong Kong protect and also revitalize in a way that the building is given a chance to be more lucrative. Hardly do they perform the exact same function before any preserving and conserving work. There are no physical demolition of the architecture but the history and memory. For instance, the 1881 Heritage, the former headquarter of the Hong Kong Marine Police in the 1980s and 1990s. It had turned into a glamorous, luxurious

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas ]

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Abbas tells the colonial history of Hong Kong which influences the style of architecture. Hong Kong displays a mixture of architecture styles include indigenous architecture and colonial-style construction. Also, the complex and conflicting history created a new culture which is Hong Kong culture self-defination. Hong Kong film industry was booming by the uniqueness of Hong Kong. Abbas suggested a space of disappearance could be the process to erase the culture memories which is a kind of self-preservation. On my opinion, it is the result of city’s development. “It is spoken of more and more eloquently and written of more and

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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What Abbas mentioned was in fact a prophecy. He highlights how the city is ever changing, undermining its identity, rendering it unfamiliar or even unrecognizable for locals with their own city. The gradual disappearance of parts of the city and erosion of our memories happens everyday. The ’emerging postcolonial awareness’ mentioned was not shared by  all, where some prioritize economic considerations. Buildings would be replaced one by one, just like the errors in a computer system. Although seemingly minimal at first, it finally accumulate to a point where the system fails, just as our identities as a ‘Hongkonger’. We find

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