Posts tagged: clothes

Installation /

Newspaper Quilt on Hanger

Newspaper Art, quilt, recylced, information, 東方日報, 報紙

Turning Newspaper into art?

Inspired by News and clothes hanging culture in Hong Kong, we created our own version of newspaper – Paper Quilt on Hanger. The world is surrounded by news. Everyday we read news on TV, facebook, and google. We can’t tell what to trust anymore with all the fabricated viral content. We see this social phenomenon as a fabric that cover the truth and essentially the value of News.

Newspaper itself  is also a medium we used a lot to create art and build structure for children class. We found it as an recyclable material that requires our imagination. It is weak and needs folding, rolling or interlocking to obtain strength. It can be turned into different art for children and a paper dress or paper wall.

Urban Planning /

Clothes Hanging in Hong Kong

晾衫, 曬衣服, clothes, hanging, duck, hong kong, tradition, sun drying

A “Prohibited” Public Space for Clothes Hanging?::

We found this hill at a local residential complex to be very interesting. People inhabit the concrete hill by hanging clothes, food and toy on it. They hang wire on railing for clothes, lay down newspaper on the floor to make dry fruit, and hang duck on the fence for sun drying. People talks to their neighbors while they were doing their things and their children were running in the background up and down the hill. Although I found it strange that people don’t mind to share their underpants in public, I found this “prohibited” space to be an urban design opportunity.

We can make this place into a an accessible landscape for clothes and food drying. It will be a cultural park that allows neighbors share their daily chores without worrying about getting caught by the complex security. It will also be funny to check out what my neighbor is drying for dinner in this park.