ROCKING DOG: Wooden toy for E.
The wooden rocking animal grows with the child. It adapts from a baby walker, to a rocking dog for toddlers, to a rocking stool for older kids.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: exhibition at PMQ
“Interstitial Hong Kong” presents an interactive exhibit showcasing unique public small places as a network of physical, cultural, and ecological assets. We invite the public to share their experiences of small-space urbanism and to reimagine the Sitting-out Area’s potential within our city.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: Shanghai Exhibition
Two exhibits, ‘From Miniature to Synchronizer’ and ‘From Border to Mediator’, develop a critical spatial analysis of the city’s landscapes by collecting and communicating the organizational attributes of its public spaces.
A TERRACE FOR ‘THE NEST’: St. John’s Cathedral grounds
The terrace and herb garden provide a retreat for staff of The Nest coffee shop, which supports adults with learning disabilities.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIERS: Sharing Economy and City Future
The article on the project Interstitial Hong Kong focuses on Sitting-out Areas, a unique public space typology distinguished by their small size and incidence in the interstices of the city’s physical structure.
HK STAIR ARCHIVE: Always at the edge
Always at the edge of things and between places / 永遠在邊緣永遠在過渡 exhibits photography, architectural drawings, multimedia art and design works all around Hong Kong’s stairs.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: HKU Landscape Design Studio MLA 1
The studio explores everyday landscapes in a high-density urban context to discover the exceptional opportunities for landscape design and social and ecological enrichment of sites throughout the city.
NO SUGAR: AA Visiting School Hong Kong
Based on site research in Cha Kwo Ling Village, students look on the results of our global society’s addiction to the ‘sweet life’ and investigate how city dwellers can move away from pure consumption and reclaim an active advocacy. A future projection of the village is shown in an immersive exhibition at Osage Gallery.
PLANTER WORKSHOP: Educational Programme with Rooftop Republic
The collaborative planter making workshop teaches secondary school students to build planters from reclaimed pallet wood, which will be used at the school community garden.
SUPPORT STRUCTURES: HKU Landscape Design Studio MLA 1
The design studio explores basic tectonic interventions on two landscape typologies commonly found in Hong Kong: sitting-out areas and engineered slopes.
CAPSTONE RESEARCH: Theoretical Background for Design Thesis
Inspired from keywords related to urban phenomena in Hong Kong, students of Environment and Interior Design formulate and develop own research topics as framework for the bachelor thesis.
POST+ CAPITALIST CITY: re:publica 2015
CollageLab launches with their talk at re:publica a new call for papers based on the ideas resulting from the 2012 idea competition about society and urbanism.
HONG KONG EXPLORATIONS: Study Trip with HAWK Holzminden
Students of different architecture related disciplines from HAWK Holzminden in Germany come to Hong Kong for a 10 day study trip and visit local offices, urban villages and new town developments.
KINZO: SoundCloud Headquarter nominated for Architizer A+ Award
The SoundCloud office interior was nominated for the Architizer A+ Award! Susanne has been working on the design for the Berlin headquarter of the music platform with the architecture studio Kinzo.
AGING DRAGONS: Evergrowing Hong Kong
The Aging Dragons Exhibition is part of the ‘Beyond Big Plans: Let’s reinvent planning’ conference, a pre-event to the ISOCARP 2015. Exhibits about Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo are shown in the Seoul City Hall from 12th to 22nd March 2015.
