Connection City Director: Siew Ming Ho Iwan Lobby is a space used to connect two places. Examples of lobby include hotel lobby, train lobby in MTR and lift lobby. Lift lobby is the most common one among the three and having the least distance to most of Hong Kong people. It performs different functions namely embellishment, community common space and passageway from ground to upper floors. In housing estates in Hong Kong, it is very common to have security guards in lobby to monitor the building. These security guards work long hours every day to safeguard residents there. Greetings and

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  Title: Control city — Malls in the post-epidemic era City: Nanjing, Xinjiekou Site: Mall Directed by: Joran Zhang A study of the impact of the epidemic and anti-epidemic measures on people’s consumption behaviour and how shopping malls are defined in the city by photographing the flow of people in malls before and after urban controls.   The significance of the mall’s presence in the city As an urban complex, Deji Plaza brings vitality to the city and at the same time promotes the reuse of urban stock space. With a total gross floor area of approximately 250,000 square metres

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Settings and founding: The campus of HKU has a history of over a hundred years, sitting on a rural hill that was once deforested to expand the campus. But interestingly, the trees and trunks cut by us humans have started to take over, stretching through the concrete facades, swallowing the brutalist architecture slowly. Whenever I walk from the Knowles Building to its hidden garden near the car park, it always feels like a total transformation of space; from a modernistic, clean, perfectionist laboratory to a complex-made, fresh, and liberated jungle. The space immediately changes from a suffocating, stressing academic environment

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Control City Director: Natalie Gusawir Actor: Zita Ip, Angie Wu How are we controlled in the street? Street, a public space. Public space is always associated with freedom. That it is a space where everyone is welcomed and can gather together. However, it does not mean that there are no rules and regulations within the public space. Living in a city that emphasizes freedom and rights a lot, I am wondering if freedom is given to people in public spaces. Therefore, I am looking into different control measures that can be found in the street. In the video, it first

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  Title: Hybrid City Site: Shenzhen University Credits: Director: Yuan Yitong Background information Before the COVID-19 pandemic, college students in Shenzhen had a rich extracurricular and cultural life. Their radius of activity is large enough because of the convenient urban transportation system.(Yang et al, 2020) However, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed all that. In order to ensure the safety of students, the government and schools have adopted strict control measures, such as strict closed control in schools, and extensive online courses for students. This has resulted in a smaller activity radius for college students in Shenzhen, and all activities

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  Title: Forgotten City Site: Factory site Credits: Director: Li Yuelin Description Shenyang was one of the most significant industrial cities in China. During “the first five-year plan,” Shenyang helped China’s industrial technology skyrocket and promoted China’s GDP to boom. In 1957, Liaoning had contributed 14% of China’s GDP, and Shenyang had taken up 22.7% of China’s industrial production. For all these contributions, Shenyang is called “the eldest son of the republic.” However, because of the “SOE reform” and the “industrial transformation,” most factories were abandoned and demolished, and millions of workers lost their jobs. This video is set in

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