stair culture
includes stair culture news, photos, maps and info about events, research, and the exhibitions ‘alternate constructions’ and ‘step up!’.
Hong Kong Stair Archive
info about the research project and the exhibition Always at the edge of things and between places 永遠在邊緣永遠在過渡 is here
step up!
info about the exhibition ‘step up!’ – a collection of performances, events, and art installations which reflect on conflict, ownership, responsibility and cultural occupation in the context of public right of ways in Hong Kong. The installations were situated on an essential type of pedestrian right of way on Hong Kong Island: the public staircase.
alternate constructions
information about the exhibition ‘alternate constructions’, which featured the design research of HKU students and faculty in the context of the proposed escalator along Pound Lane.
an escalator for pound lane?
student and faculty research, documentation, and community engagement exercises concerning the proposed Pound Lane escalator and the Blake Garden neighborhood.
Read Melissa’s editorial “I’ll take the stairs”, also published in Chinese in the Ming Pao Weekly (Nov. 10, 2012).
Read Christopher DeWolf’s article about the stair culture project ‘Mapped: Hong Kong’s Public Steps’
3000+ stairs of the Western and Central District, HK
Image credit: transverse studio
Tai Ping Shan, 1868
Image credit: HK Public Records Office via Arthur Hacker
