Topics in architectural technologies --- Human Landscape: E.CO Theatre
Bachelor Year 3 Summer Semester
Full Portfolio available at:
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Course Introduction
Amidst the new dynamics in the changing context of Hong Kong, there are local issues relating to
the advancement of global concerns. The possibilities and potentials of where, what and how people live and adapt to green habitats is critically significant to provide and design liveable settings and habitable spaces for the people here and now. With the global paradigm shift, the Green Way of living/learning is forming and shaping our cultural preferences—an engagement of the natural resources, an intervention of green living, a new perspective of green architecture, as well as an open system for sustainable environment. Thus, the concept of human landscape is to allow students to rethink and react to our way of life in the highly urbanized city of Hong Kong.
From taught classes to hands-on experience of theatre production, it allows students to explore
applicable arts-tech skills in a rural setting to collect traditional stories, conceive natural forces,
construct bamboo theatre, and collaborate with artists/ residents through living, engaging and
performing in the green environment.
Project 1 - Concept & Principle
This is a data research and presentation project that focuses on a self-chosen topic. In group of 3, we chose the Kamikatsu Village in Japan where its leave-selling business is famous. We learnt about the Human Landscape, Socio-ecological systems & green living overseas, and also interviewed several speakers on the topics of Satoyama initiative, Hakka culture and an art-chitectural approach towards E.Co-habitat.
Project 2 - Green Living/Learning & Art-action
Through cultural experiential residence at Lai Chi Wo for almost a week, we had hands-on material workshops & fieldworks at the village to learn about the traditional ways of green living, Art-chitecture, Arts-technology / aesthetics of sustainability. With our first-hand documentation of our group topic --- Human and Natural Habitats, we produced a detail section drawing of an assigned village path, collected locally available leaves, and presented a story of "Leafy" in parallel of narrating the villagers' experience.
Project - 3 Theatre Design & Presentation
By having Server-based control architectural experience, immerse audio soundscape, visual images/ space network at HKU/ Yuen Long Theatre, our group continue to develop a rural theatre enhancement proposal with regards to a pre-exist children theatre. As a continuation of the interpretative storytelling concept of leaves, we designed the "Leafy Swirl" which's comprised of three parts. The design has been modified to suit the existing spatial scenario setting and bamboo theatre design.
Project 3 Introduction Video: