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# Project Description Collecting and Rebuilding Collective Memories Sze Sze Mak Summary Final work College Chelsea College of Arts Course BA (Hons) Interior Design Graduation year 2025 With the rise of emigration in Hong Kong, many immigrants not only bring their luggage with them, but also the memories and culture of their hometowns. How to preserve culture in new communities and connect people through collective memory is an important question for today's immigrants. This is a cultural museum with the theme of ‘Memory and Cultural Heritage’, which is not only a place to display culture, but also a container for memories and emotions. It will bring the personal stories and objects brought by immigrants into a collective memory, allowing people to regain their emotional ties to the past. Final work Room 1 - The Memories of Hong Kong’s Old District in 2000s The first section of the exhibition makes reference to the real street scenes of the old districts of Hong Kong in the 2000s, such as Sham Shui Po, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok. The exhibition carefully imitates the scenes of life that used to be found everywhere on the streets: the trolleys of transport workers parked underneath tenement buildings, the stacks of cardboard boxes and parcels, the tables and chairs of street food stalls, and even the graffiti on the walls have all been preserved, depicting the busy and humane atmosphere of the old districts and allowing the immigrant or younger generation to reconnect with these fading collective memories. Room 2 - The Memories of Hong Kong’s Tenement Building Living in 1990s The second exhibition room is accessed through the narrow staircase of the first exhibition, as if one were actually entering a tenement. Here, you will be transported back to the 1990s, where the living environment of families living in small flats in tenement buildings in the 1990s has been meticulously restored to reflect the daily life of the residents at that time. Through the physical display and restoration, visitors can truly feel the atmosphere and warmth of family life in tenement buildings in those years. Room 3 - The Memories of Hong Kong’s Night Market in 1980s The last exhibition room is modelled on Hong Kong’s 1980’s night market where it not only recreates the stalls of the night market, such as food stalls, plastic tables and chairs, but also recreates the real night market experience through sounds and smells. This is not only a recreation of a market, but also a fragment of an era’s memory. Through this exhibition hall, we hope that visitors can once again feel the rhythm of life, the social sphere and the strong human flavour that the night market carried in those years. Research and process This building was reassembled with fragments of tenement buildings with historical traces in Hong Kong’s old districts. Tenement buildings, as architectural witnesses since the colonial period, carry the life memories and community emotions of generations. These relics, which were originally scattered in the corners of the city, are now reorganized into a trajectory of a cultural journey, allowing people to travel through time and memory while traveling through the building itself. The entire building is like an urban collage, which is both a building and an exhibition itself - every wall and every window frame are fragments of history. The audience does not just walk into a museum, but into a narrative space composed of fragments, a journey of dialogue with “old Hong Kong”. Share this project With the rise of emigration in Hong Kong, many immigrants not only bring their luggage with them, but also the memories and culture of their hometowns. How to preserve culture in new communities and connect people through collective memory is an important question for to... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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