book reference

'how psychedelic consciousness transformed modern art' written by  ken johnson,
he introduced plenty of fantastic works and interviews/ quotations of artists.

Material utopia and Personal utopia by James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist’s F-111

Situationist International, art

Remix the book
http://www.remixthebook.com/

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2007/10/

http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/detournement-2

the planned city

MUST READ

Situationist International Anthology

Revised and Expanded Edition, 2006. 532 pages.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

so cool

"We are bored in the city"

Our city has been constructed and DESIGNED intentionally, which directly affects users' daily activities.

Situationist International

wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

A call for the creation of a new situationist international.

http://libcom.org/library/towards-new-situationist-international

Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement

http://libcom.org/library/enrag%C3%A9s-situationists-occupations-movement

Situationist International on Films
http://libcom.org/library/films-situationist-international

Situationist International's background

- http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm

What do/did they do

Story behind (culture/ideology/social/political)

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/315

Street arts
http://artwelove.com/explore/Movements-and-Styles/Situationism-International

US- PPSproject for public space--- Creating public space

placemaking

http://www.pps.org/

夜遊灣仔

上星期某個夜晚到灣仔走了一遍
看看那裡的休憩設施── 原本想看喜帖街。
雖然不知有沒有走對了路，但灣仔那邊出現很多地盤，也有作勢伸往更高的建築物。

左邊兩幅是被CCTV守護的一個角落 (連一小塊地也不放過。)

這是港灣道休憩公園的標示。
第一眼看過去，是驚奇的，之後就想究竟有甚麼是可以做的。
場內看見一群人在耍太極，假使有一天大家的太極功力很強，都可以使出氣功，那時候這養生的活動也要被禁嗎?

很多「私人地方」都圍上了禁標，或是刺眼的橙色雪糕筒(太古坊，會補相)

24／10／2012

從FB抓回來的，是出自石家豪先生的手筆
總算進一步釐清我對藝術的CONFUSION
現在我要做的，（暫時）應該偏向左上。

有關公共空間的問題，
我要循幾方面探討
之前我執著於公共空間的規劃問題，
這固然是個最基本的問題源頭，
但我應更著重使用者跟它的閞係

下一步我要做的
就去再看看不同公共空間的情況
1 全日都看同一地點
2 早／午／晚 各看幾個公共空間

至於選取哪一／哪些空間
我倒要仔細想
＞公園？吸煙區？那被CCTV盯著的小角？
＞甚麼是公共空間？﹣﹣﹣ 家裡也可歸類為公共空間！

＊＊CCTV 是有趣的TOPIC
我們生活在這城裡，責任和權利是甚麼？
是不是要受人規限、跟著指示去做所有事情？

Proposals

30/9/2012

[Honours Project Proposal]

Hong Kong is a small city, and is famous for the beautiful night view—thanks to the intensity of buildings and never-switch-off neon lights. There are more and more buildings within our tiny city: shopping malls, and residential buildings. These buildings undoubtedly bring new entertainments and space for us citizens to use. However, when looking back to the disappearing old community area, the amount of public spaces seems decreasing silently. Graffiti are removed; street sleepers have no place to stay, street dancers were expulsed. Most Hong Kong people live peacefully in a well planned area, yet we seem have no rights and responsibility to our own city. I wonder who owns this city: us citizen, the government or merchants? I would like to investigate more about public space, citizens’ right of using public space.

3/10/2012

[Honours Project 1^st meeting with supervisor]

To give further explain to my last proposal, there are 3 main points I would like to highlight (refer to my last proposal): Disappearing Old Community and public space; Types of New constructions- space and effect to our culture; and our Rights and responsibility to Hong Kong.



The disappearing old buildings and streets are marking the fading of the old generation and old living style. The change of recreational area(both in style and location) would make changes to some local cultural activities. For instance, Lower ngau tou kok estate and Wan Chai market. The living style and people's living environment changes because of urban renewal.  [wt's Hong Kong culture]

Second, the government is now undertaking the urban renewal project in different districts with old buildings, and would like to transform them into some modern-like districts. As a citizen, such large-scale construction bring more inconvenience to citizens rather than benefits. It is not a human-based project for citizens within this decade. [The final benefit would go to who's pocket? citizens/ merchants]

Rights and responsibilities of citizens can actually be reflected everywhere in Hong Kong.
For example, the un-used areas under highways and parks are used to be open to public use, yet under the 'management' of merchants/government, citizens' freedom were being deprived.
 

better space

海濱長廊- 伍美琴  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsIVo8FzyRA
公共空間的意義
1 社區與當地歷史文化相連
2 綠化(以本地植物) 達減排及生物多樣性←會自我完善、自我優化
3 包含文化內容，可令使用者了解本地文化特色
4 提供舒適環境，吸引使用者使用，增加人與人之間的互動
5 使加使用率，令公共空間得以承傳

Hong Kong Public Art Initivative 

http://hkpsi.org/chi/publicspace/publicspace.php?page=introduction&file=ideal

理想的公共空間

公共空間金字塔®：
理想的公共空間須具備四大因素，當中以暢達性為第一步，因為人們要到達空間才能享用第二層的因素—環境與設施。可是，即使有了設施，設計不良好的話也不能令公眾使用（第三層）。有了公眾使用，如果人人也各自進行活動，他們也只是活在自己的世界，因此我們最終會以公共空間能否鼓勵社交來衡量它的成功，因為社交乃公共生活的最佳體現。以上四大條件，良好的公共空間缺一不可，卻須層層遞進才能達到最高層次。