Wedding Card Street, Mongkok, and Fotan site visits | Framing Spatial Stories

Instigated by what the Hong Kong Urban Renewal Authority (URA) terms "freezing surveys"—aimed at fixing legal claims to spaces (and thereby people) to frame cities as stable grids—"unfreezing" becomes a way to re-think and re-familiarise the relationship to cities we inhabit and travel across.

Benjamin and Tang propose that we see cities through the very practices that constitute them—how a city is "practiced" bears witness to how it is lived. Art then becomes a way to bring critical reexamination and repositioning of the city by reworking the very methods, tools, and representations that may otherwise become fixed.