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[Video Essay] Construction City

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Construction City —— A Collective Unconsciousness Construction and An Alleyway Narration in Hong Kong City —— A Video Essay for David & Alleyway If the city is compared to a giant beast that swallows and throws up material and spirit, the arteries flowing in its body are highways and roads. The headlights flash like neon meteors, and people’s greatest desires rush on. Then there are those pedestrian bridges, those small roads without traffic lights, like veins that cycle people’s desire to go home, branch out from arteries and spread all over the city. Finally, we can find capillary-like alleys between

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[Field-Homework 3] Hybrid City

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Video link: https://youtu.be/XV71rkqBjnE Since January 7 2022, the deteriorating pandemic has forced most of the public leisure and cultural services to shut down, with the city enveloped by stricter public surveillance. The exertion undeniably influences the citizens’ life again. This video essay focuses on how playground serves in a hybrid manner as a general fitness centre, a children’s wonderland and a performance stage. The traditional playground is replaced by a multifunctional community activities place as other interior public services become unavailable. As a panoptic site of daily intermingling crisis (Wilson, 2013, p. 630), the playground offers a broad and comprehensive

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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

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Disappearing City Director & Producer: Shizheng Liang. Music: Oneohtrix Point Never – Hospital Escape ／ Access-A-Ride The metro is a metaphor for the modern urban lifestyle, indicating the disappearance of traditional urban spaces. The metro is probably the best urban space to manifest modernity, as it operates almost as the opposite of walking through traditional streets. Travelers enter a portal under the city’s surface, loaded into a time/space capsule, travel through the city at a supra-biological speed that ignores any obstacles, and return through another passage, where the travelers are ignorant of the urban spatial structure. They do not know

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[Video essay] Hybrid City

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Video: https://youtu.be/M0tu4hwFMBM Theme: As the political and cultural center, Beijing represents the history of more than 5000 years of China. It contains The Imperial Palace, The Tiananmen Square, and countless traditional alleyways. I took the first part of the video shots in Houhai, which is a Lake Park with a long history. Many old hutongs and courtyards still sit around the lake and store the old memories back in the 1980s. Although there were countless skyscrapers and modern buildings built within 50 years, the area around Houhai has never been destructed. So it can be said that Houhai still reserves

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[Video Essay] CONTROL CITY

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SITE: DORMITORY Director: LIN Mengfei SCENE: LIN Mengfei SUBTITLE: LIN Mengfei 1. Introduction Inspiration This video is a visual presentation of my real life experiences and reflections to the built environment. The initial inspiration mainly comes from a long period self-quarantine in a small bedroom with a huge window on one wall. After having an interview with my classmates, we shared the feeling of having quarantine in the dormitory. It is slightly lonely and we both realised that we were born to love the outdoors. During the quarantine, we tells the time naturally by looking through windows. Pink morning light shines

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Video essay The influence of epidemic

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Director: Liu Yitong scriptwriter: Liu Yitong Footage and photography: Liu Yitong vocals: Liu Yitong Link:https://youtu.be/uVRG3GWfAbQ Different places will have different attitudes to deal with the covid-19 epidemic. Mainland China chose to both prevent foreign imports and rebound in local, in order to reach dynamic zero. For me, a student who back from Hong Kong to the mainland when the epidemic in Hong Kong was serious, choose to use this video to show the relationship between people and architecture during the epidemic. I choose the Changfeng business district as a filming location for three reasons. First, this is the place where

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[Video essay] Disappearing City

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Theme of the video: Disappearing — City Director: Tsang Ka Ho Photo/montage credits: RTHK Broadcast VectorStock HK01 News The Leisure and Cultural Services Department When it comes to playground, I do not have much idea about it. It seems not to be one of our most-used daily facilities. The last time I have been playing in a park is about 7-8 years ago, with my friends and families. All my left-impression is recalled from my childhood time, which I cherish the memories when I play with my classmates and friends. I start to wonder, is it true that playgrounds are

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

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Title: Disappearing City Site: Park Director: Peng Ziqian Background music: Starry Sky(星茶会) by Huiche; Illuminate by Peter Orbit YouTube link: https://youtu.be/R19AswVB3rI Theme: Parks benefit people’s physical and mental health as green public areas that provide residents with exercise and strengthen community cohesion (Holland, 2018). However, park visitation changed considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic, although the nature in which this change occurred varied across countries around the world (Geng et al., 2021). The theme of my research is: what are the causes of the “disappearance” of parks during the COVID-19 pandemic? Hypothesis: The “disappearing” parks are related to national policies on Neocon

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［Video Essay］Disappearing City

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Theme The fifth wave of COVID-19 occurred in Hong Kong due to the introduction of the mutant strain Omicron into the city in early January 2022. As the number of positive tests increased from dozens to hundreds or even thousands, schools in Hong Kong also announced that they would stop offline teaching and not allow non-essential students to enter the campus. In early February, the University of Hong Kong sent an email to students officially starting online courses this semester. This is also the beginning of the ‘ Disappearing City’ embodied in the University of Hong Kong. Due to the increasing situation

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

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Script I usually walk out of the apartment at 9:15 in the morning. And then I walk up the hills under the apartment to get to the university. Along the road, I could see some people walking along the sidewalk, or crossing the street, possibly heading out to work. This is a scene that I once thought had disappeared due to the pandemic. Now it is such a pleasure to be able to see the situation here getting better and people can get back to their life again. After studying in the library, I sometimes would go for some snack

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