“Wedding Card Street” is what a number of people will think of if we are to talk about urban renewal in Hong Kong. Since the redevelopment of Lee Tung Street, there have been numerous urban renewal projects going on. How is gentrification experienced and lived? This talk is about an ethnographic study of how “gentrification” is experienced, lived, talked about, and “mediated” by local residents, shopkeepers in old districts of Hong Kong and a local concern group, an old district autonomy advancement group. This group of people, with their conscious, participatory, reflexive and creative “slow media” practice, showed that media can be an artistic creation, that its life, from its production/generation to circulation(s), can “weave” imaginations into reality.

Venue address: Hong Kong Museum of History, Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui