This week we go through the various things we have done so far and what they have taught us about how we see the city.

1. SM3138: THE CREATIVE CITY
Class 10: Connecting the Dots….

2. The city creates and reproduces power
relations. The way people use space, is also a
political and social question.

3. HONG KONG: INVISIBLE &
PARASITIC
• Ackbar Abbass and Hong Kong as a Parasitic city

4. MANY WAYS TO SEE THE CITY
Through the course we have been looking at the city
from various perspectives, sometimes even looking
at the same ‘space’ from different points of view.

6. “The Architecture of Density”
Photographer Michael Wolf

12. EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE CITY
• Psychogeographies of the
places we have travelled.
• How are affective barriers as
useful as ‘real’ barricades?
• Understanding difference and
inequality
• How do different people
experience the city differently
and why?
• Part of what makes a city is
our everyday practices,
usages and experiences of a
place.

13. SPACE HAS MANY USES
There are many informal ways we use space, break the rules, & find
ways of living that reflect who we are and what we value as a society,
culture, community.

14. COMMODITIES & LUXURY
The Commodity Fetish: The almost magical quality that a commodity
gains when it is given value. Value is a social relation, not entirely based
on the labour or materials made to create the commodity. Commodity
Fetishism “transforms the subjective, abstract aspects of economic value
into objective, real things that people believe have intrinsic value.”
• What does ‘Luxury’ really mean? How does it relate to inequality
through creating abstract value and new kinds of social relations?

15. MIGRANTS & LABOUR ISSUES
• What is the experience of a city when given unequal rights in a place?
• How do you form ties to home?Food, place, culture? Keeping links alive, finding
people who recognize you
• Ongoing hardships and injustice. Threats of deportation. Racialized and
Gendered. Two tiered systems of justice. Social Exclusion

16. WORK
• So much work remains invisible, yet vitally important to
the city. Much of the most important work is underpaid
and not respected in a modern society.

17. HIDDEN HISTORIES
• Who tells the story and what story do they tell? What are the
hidden histories of a city like Hong Kong?
• What does history have to tell us about the present? How is
history a shifting process?

19. JANET CARDIFF &
GEORGE BURES MILLER
• These two artists
play with ideas of
history, memory, past
and present in their
works.
• Video and Audio
walks bring direct
experience to historic
data, cinema and
fiction.

20. ALTER BAHNHOF VIDEO WALK
(2012)
“The Alter Bahnhof Video Walk was designed for the old train station in Kassel,
Germany as part of dOCUMENTA (13). Participants are able to borrow an iPod and
headphones from a check-out booth. They are then directed by Cardiff and Miller
through the station. An alternate world opens up where reality and fiction meld in a
disturbing and uncanny way that has been referred to as “physical cinema”. The
participants watch things unfold on the small screen but feel the presence of those
events deeply because of being situated in the exact location where the footage
was shot. As they follow the moving images (and try to frame them as if they were
the camera operator) a strange confusion of realities occurs. In this confusion, the
past and present conflate and Cardiff and Miller guide us through a meditation on
memory and reveal the poignant moments of being alive and present.”

21. YAEL BARTANA
History meets fiction in
sometimes uncomfortable,
irresistible ways
“Bartana’s films, Mary Koszmary (2007), Mur i wieża (2009) and Zamach (2011) revolve around
the activities of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP): a political group calling for
the return of Jews to the land of their forefathers. The films traverse a landscape scarred by the
histories of competing nationalisms and militarisms—overflowing with the narratives of the Israeli
settlement movement, Zionist dreams, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the Palestinian right of
return.” -eFlux

22. “Bartana’s films, Mary
Koszmary (2007), Mur i wieża
(2009) and Zamach (2011)
revolve around the activities of
the Jewish Renaissance
Movement in Poland (JRMiP):
a political group calling for the
return of Jews to the land of
their forefathers. The films
traverse a landscape scarred
by the histories of competing
nationalisms and militarisms—
overflowing with the narratives
of the Israeli settlement
movement, Zionist dreams,
anti-Semitism, the Holocaust
and the Palestinian right of
return.” -eFlux

23. TUNG PING CHAU ISLAND
“THE ANTHROPOCENE”
• One of most remote islands in HK
• Unique geology, part of the Geo-Park
• Dates from Paleogene Period
• Special evidence of human impacts
on the land
Cost: $90 return we will subsidize
50%
Leave from Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier,
near University MTR
Return 5:15pm
Bring Lunch, or $$