The Utopian Community: A narrative project depicting the formation of an ideal imaginary metropolis based alleyways 烏托邦社區：建構在小巷基礎上的烏托邦故事

Creator

Wong, Cho Yiu, Yoyo 黃楚堯

Title

Subject

Interior decoration -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2020-09-18

Relation

PolyU Design Degree Show 2020: Profile Cards

PolyU Design Degree Show 2020 Tutors' Choice

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2020BAEDD16P001

ASSD2020BAEDD16P002

ASSD2020BAEDD16P003

ASSD2020BAEDD16P004

ASSD2020BAEDD16P005

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design

Award Winning

Description

This is a narrative project explores the correlation between ""The Unity of Heaven and Man"" and ""The alleyways in Kowloon Walled City"", depicting how an ideal imaginary metropolis could be formed based on the complexity of alleyways, and interpreting certain kind of human activities that could be held in such a nature-humankind creation.
“The Unity of Heaven and Man” is a traditional Chinese philosophy, which highlights the fundamental significance of nature to human affairs. ""Heaven"" represents ""nature"" and ""god"", while ""Man"" refers to ""humankind"" and ""society"". It is also interpreted as four spatial features in this main concept, which includes Tree-like Extension, Hierarchical Levels, Enclosure and Semi-Openness. A whole new vision of a continuous space is shown under the tectonics of WUXING, a form of ancient Chinese geomancy, which includes wood, fire, earth, metal and water, and represents specific seasons for each zone, provokes a certain order and different activities.

Collection

PolyU Design Degree Show 2020