15 March 2015: "Shopping Art Consuming Culture – Trend Lab Hong Kong" / "Alternative Futures: Curating Hong Kong," Hong Kong

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Key figure of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Isabella Lo (next to Maurice Benayoun) talking at the Workshop © ZHdK

Date: 15 March 2015
Type: Workshop, Panel
Venue: G/F, Wah Kin Mansion, Hong Kong
Topics: Smart Cities

Panel: “Shopping Art Consuming Culture – Trend Lab Hong Kong”
Workshop: “Alternative Futures: Curating Hong Kong”

Guided by the maxim “Curating a city means more than running a gallery,” the basic idea of this panel was to present a selection of case studies illustrating a major challenge for the city of Hong Kong in the coming years: its transformation from an economic to a cultural centre.

Two speakers at the Workshop “The Digital”: Kacey Wong (left) talking to new media artist Maurice Benayoun
Co-Curator Desmond Hui talking to Simon Shen – Panelist on “The Digital” and director of Global Studies Program at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Key figure of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement – Isabella Lo (next to Maurice Benayoun) talking at the Workshop
Iris Tsang (CEO of YHA Mei Ho House Youth Hostel) next to Géraldine Borio and Caroline Wüthrich (Swiss directors of Parallel Lab in Hong Kong) at the Workshop “The Urban”
Euan Upston, director of Central Police Station at the Panel “Shopping Art”
And there was food – Participants enjoying the Chinese dishes served after the workshops