Alessandro Carboni

Alessandro Carboni is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and teacher who divides his efforts between different art disciplines. For several years now, Carboni has been working on creating a new methodology for urban analysis and performance, which combines elements of choreography, mathematics and system theory. Recently, Alessandro Carboni has been working in Hong Kong focusing his research on Nga Tsin Wai village. Taking this as a point of departure, Carboni has been examining local disappearing urban spaces, which overlap with several discrete boundaries within Kai Tak River, Kowloon Walled City and To Kwa Wan. “Optimized systems of city paths” aims not merely to show the general phenomenon of urban transformation, but to inspire people to consider how art practice, being a discipline for active production of thinking, affects the city and how it respond to our bodies and spaces.

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Alessandro Carboni’s Kai Tak River Workshop

Christian Pagh

MA in Modern Culture & Philosophy, Christian Pagh, founded UiWE in 2008 as a platform for uniting cultural thinking and design skills. Before starting UiWE, he coordinated the development of an ambitious cultural centre, The Culture Yard, in Helsingor, and worked as Professor in Cultural Planning at Malmo University. Urban planning is a recurring theme in Christian’s work, as well as user-oriented innovation and cultural communication. Currently Christian is engaged in philosophy, cultural theory and design thinking as Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, as public speaker and as editor.

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David Haley

Ecological artist, David Haley is a Research Fellow in MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design) at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a founding member of SEA: Social and Environmental Arts Research Centre, A&E: Art & Ecology Research Group, Water & Well-Being and he leads the MA Art As Environment programme. Haley is an active member of the Public Art & Urban Design Observatory, the eco-arts network, greenmuseum.org, ACN (Art, Culture, Nature) and a Trustee of Helix Arts, the Mersey Basin Trust and Director of Harrison Studio & Associates (Britain) Ltd. He is, also, a Fellow of the RSA and member of the AHRC Peer Review College. In addition to ecological arts commissions, he contributes regularly to international journals, publications and conferences. His long-term ecological arts programme for Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery considers creative opportunities for the future of people living with climate change and the River Severn. Current projects include Rivers from the Future that critiques the aesthetic and ethical values of the ‘new suburbia’ over freshwater, A Walk On The Wild Side, commissioned by Urbis to perform a series of community Wild Walks for the Wild Futures exhibition and website in March 2007 and Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison to determine how we might ‘withdraw gracefully’ as the sea levels rise.

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Ichi Ikeda

1943-born in Osaka, Japan.Ichi Ikeda has over the past 20 years when he have developed his artworks strongly connected with global environmental problems, especially concerning water. He believes that water is the earth’s most precious resource. He has dedicated his career to raising global awareness around issues of water conservation through international conferences, community activism, public performances and interactive installations. Ikeda encourages his viewers to consider the larger context in which they live, and to see how their current actions can affect the earth’s future. He views the conscious networking of concerned individuals as a key to sustainability. Ikeda addresses these issues through both large and small-scale.
His art works, hoping to work towards an ecologically sustainable future, are widely known as IKEDA WATER. IKEDA WATER’s most important projects are Water Piano, Water Mirror, the United Waters, Big Hands Conference, Manosegawa River Art Project, Water Market project, 80 Liter Water Box, Moving Water Days, Future Compass etc.

On 1991, he was invited to produce his installation work as the most important artist in the 21th International Biennial of Sao Paulo. And on 1995, he was selected to one of the ’12 artists in the world’ who compose the art calendar in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations.

And furthermore, through such water art networking, he is developing world-wide project entitled World Water Ekiden, with the idea that any place can function as the starting point for forwarding ‘water for the future’ to the next generation living on the Earth.

His art serves as a catalyst for change and an inspirational focal point for the exchange and circulation of information related to water conservation. He suggest this new perspective viewpoint on social and natural systems as the “Water’s-Eye view”.

Ichi Ikeda’s Kai Tak River Workshop

James Lee

After demonstrating a strong passion for the creative industries from a young age, James moved to London to study and graduated in 2011 with a BA in Digital Media Design from the University of the Arts London. Working on several commercial projects since, James has contributed to work shown on national television including BBC Three and Channel 5. As well as digital animation, he has also worked on film sets, fashion shoots, behind the camera and editing.

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Annie Wan

Born in Hong Kong, Annie completed a Diploma course in Design and Higher Certificate course in Studio Ceramics in the former Hong Kong Polytechnic.  She then obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997 and 1999 respectively. After that, she devoted herself to art making. She is currently the Lecturer of the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Annie has participated in various local and overseas exhibitions. She was also awarded the Winner (Sculpture) of the Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition in 1999, the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2000, artist for “Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme II” by the Hong Kong Art Promotion Office in 2002, the Overseas Residency Grant by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Award Winner of the Hong Kong Art Biennial in 2003. She has also been the resident artist at different art institutions in the USA, Japan and Denmark from 2001 to 2004.  Annie’s works are collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art and overseas art institutions.

 Albert Lau

Albert has been practicing as Professional Architect since hisgraduation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Within these years, he has been involved in wide range of local and international projects including institutional, residential, laboratories, offices, aviation, and railway. Withhis effort and passion, he had completed several key Award Winning projects including Residential Development “One LaSalle”, Hong Kong Science Park Phase 2 and New Hyderabad Airport in India. He had also received a Silver Medal for DBEW International Concept Design Competition in 2004.

Apart from his professional practice, he is actively sharing his experience/opinion with general public. He was a part-time lecturer of The City University of Hong Kong in 2009 and founder cum host for an internet radio programme “建築思事” in 2011-2012, sharing his view on general public issues from architectural point of view.

Cally Yu

Cally Yu (Yeuk Mui, Yu), a Chinese writer with strong concern on Hong Kong society and the public lives. She published four Chinese novels and one book on local women interviews and had numerous art critics and feature writings in local newspaper. Starting in 2009, as one of the founders of Woofer Ten (a local alternative art space which focuses on community art), Cally has more explorations and experiments with different visual art media, on top of her creative writing projects.

Other than this, she has been involved in many art and cultural events with different roles, like curating the Cattle Depot Book Fair in 2005 and as the Project Director of Chinese Literature Camp in 2011, hosting the internet radio program ”女人話事,” (depolying feminist perspectives into social issues) since 2006, participating in the performance art event, “Happy Action,” for “Hong Kong On the Move Live Art Local Tour,”(2009) and also in participated in“Dine at Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate – Farewell to the Last Resettlement Public Rental Housing Exhibition” (2009).

Chris Chan

Bornin Hong Kong

Artist,Graphic Designer

Chris Chan Kam Shing graduated withbachelorof Fine Art (Painting)in 2004 and MFA in 2006 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University co-presented with the Hong Kong Art School, HKAC. Chrisis a graphic designer and mixed media sculpture artist. He like to use different kind of material to explore the possibility of sculpture. His works always present the uncertainty of matters by constructing things with fragile and variable substance. Through the unstable structure of works, he want to investigate the issue of self-existence, body extension and the objectivity of the external physical world.

Chung Wai Ian

Ian Chung is a Hong Kong contemporary artist. After graduated from Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2009, she was a project coordinator at Woofer Ten Shanghai Street Art space until 2012.

Dylan Kwok

Dylan Kwok, is the managing partner at PIORA lighting project. Born in Hong Kong, He received his interior design education from Ryerson University (Canada) and his master degree in Spatial Design from University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland). With a strong interest in urban livability and humanistic design, Kwok has worked for companies and universities in both Toronto and Helsinki. In 2011, he was selected for the 40 under 40 Perspective as one of the upcoming Design Stars of Tomorrow followed by the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award in 2009.

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Kingsley Ng

Ng received one of most prestigious Design Awards from the Hong Kong Government in 2008, which funded him one full year of professional design research in Europe and Australia. With the help of the grant, he had been a delegate at major international conferences on sustainability, including the European Commission Green Week in Brussels, and International Conference on Eco-Architecture and Sustainable City in La Coruña Spain. Concurrently, he has been pursuing a Master of Science Degree in Sustainable Design at the School of Architecture in University of Edinburgh.

Ng was the Hong Kong representative artist to Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, one of the leading international art festivals in regard to art and sustainability. His projects have been featured in notable events or venues such as Lille Europe Pavilion in Shanghai Expo, Wien Kunsthalle in Austria, IRCAM – Centre Pompidou in France, Fabrica Centre in Italy, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Canada, Museum of Art in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. His art or community art projects have also been endorsed by multinational brands such as Intel, Louis Vuitton, and Standard Chartered Bank.

Ng is recipient of a number of grants and recognitions, including the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, 36 Young Designers of the Year in Asia by Design Net Magazine Korea 2009, the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards 2008, the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Gold Medal Awards 2007, the Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grants to Media Artists 2006, and the InterAccess Visual Arts Award 2003.

He was an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2010,  and currently a part-time lecturer at the Baptist University in Hong Kong.

Joanna Lee李海燕

Joanna’s academic background spanned the disciplines of English Literature, Global Business and Arts Administration. Her diversified training and working experience in 4A ad agencies and multinationals gave her insights into the importance of a society that embraces differences. She is therefore now actively involved in creating alternatives. By profession, Joanna is the Administrator of Hong Kong Dance Alliance, part-time instructor, and member of the Factory Artists Concern Group.

Lam Laam, Jaffa

Lam Laam, Jaffa is a sculptor specialising in large scale site-specific works of mixed media sculptural installations, which are mainly made with recycled materials like crate wood, old furniture and recycled fabric. In re- cent years, she has been involved in many public sculptural and community projects in Hong Kong and overseas, and her works often explore issues related to the local culture, history, society and current affairs.

Apart from solo exhibitions, Lam was invited to take part in many local and international exhibitions, as well as artist residency programmes in Kenya, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Shanghai, New York and Toronto, etc. Lam was chosen as one of the highlighted artists by the Hong Kong Art Promotion Office for its “Artists in Neighbourhood Scheme II 2003”. She was also the Asian Cultural Council 2006 grantee, 2007-2008 New York Urban Glass visiting artist fellow, and an invited artist for the 10th anniversary of Tree Museum in Toronto, Canada. Lam participated in the Subvision Art Festival, Hamburg in 2009 by invitation. The new community project she has started in Hong Kong is named “micro economy”.

Projects initiated by Lam include “Re: Wanchai—2005 Hong Kong International Artists’Workshop”,“4×4—2008 Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop”, and “Work In Progress” (2009).

Lam received her BFA, MFA and Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is now teaching at the Hong Kong Art School and is the Subject Coordinator of the sculpture discipline.

Lo Chi Kit

Lo Chi Kit (b.1983, Hong Kong) obtained his BA degree in Fine Arts from RMIT
University, Australia in 2006. He was awarded in the P.C.F. Art Competition
and participated in Hong Kong Art Biennial in 2005. He worked at the studio of
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong in 2006-07. In recent years, Lo actively participates
in various exhibitions and community art projects in Hong Kong as well as
exchange projects with other cities. Employing different media, Lo is interested
in the development of ideas with a focus on contemporary art and its social
context.

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Mary Jane Tang

Mary graduated in 2005 with a BA in Dance & Theater Performance, and K-12 Teacher Certification from Plymouth State University in N.H of USA . She has studied and been in works with Alvin Ailey Artistic Director – Robert Battle, Creator of AMDC – Amy Marshall, Joan Weigers, Kelly Donavon, and Adamda Schiller. While in Hong Kong, Ms. Tang has performed in various shows, such as Andy Lau 2010 Unforgettable Concert, 2011 HK Dance Award with Unlock Dancing Plaza, and many programs with City Contemporary Dance Company. Mary is currently a freelance teacher, performer and costume designer through out HK.

Vivian Poon

Vivian POON graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. She is an artist who works primarily through the medium of painting. Since 2007, she has participated in various exhibitions in Hong Kong including “Box on Mama’s Wardrobe” (UMA G Gallery, 2007), “Start with A” (Too Art Gallery, 2007), “Shifting” (Hulahoop Gallery, 2008), “Just A Little Ladies’ Talk” (Blue Lotus Gallery, 2008), “Artwalk Extra, Hong Kong Artwalk 2011” (Central, 2011) and “Recycling Love: A Pop-up Store of the Most Precious Object from Our Beloved Artists” (G16, 2011). In 2010, along with artists Ama, Au Hoi Lam and Tsang Chui Mei, Poon has established “Qiang”, an artist studio in the Fotan artist hub. She has also participated in numerous curatorial projects in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.

Wai Kit Lam

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Yutaka Yano

Born in Japan, at a young age Yutaka moved with his family to UK and studied Architecture at The Bartlett, University College of London; his passion for process and research-led work resulted in receiving the prestigious RIBA Bronze Medal and “Sergent Drawing Prize” from Royal Institute of British Architects.

He first joined the office of TERRY FARRELL & PARTNERS and subsequently CIRCUS ARCHITECTS in London, where he developed technical and design skills managing, small scale, various private and commercial projects from concept inception to completion.

Yutaka moved to Hong Kong in 2005 to join the international multi-disciplinary group RMJM where he expanded his skills and experience in key sectors including large scale Master Planning, High-Density Residential Planning, Commercial Offices, High-Rise and Mixed Use Projects in Asia, India and UAE.

Yutaka is passionate about the design process and the quality of built environment; He has actively pursued his own interests with SKY-YUTAKA, a design studio he co-founded with his British Chinese partner. Yutaka is also currently teaching as Adjunct Assistant Professor at The School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong.