{"id":805,"date":"2016-09-23T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=805"},"modified":"2016-09-23T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:40:59","slug":"the-indie-map-playground-for-the-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/the-indie-map-playground-for-the-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indie Map: Playground for the Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T<\/span><\/span>he fl<\/span><\/span>ock\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of <\/span><\/span>budding\u00a0<\/span><\/span>creative<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>moving into industrial buildings <\/span><\/span>during the <\/span><\/span>decline of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hong Kong\u2019s <\/span><\/span>manufacturing <\/span><\/span>era has led to an organic flourishing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of <\/span><\/span>local creative<\/span><\/span>\u00a0industry<\/span><\/span>, in particular <\/span><\/span>the independent music scene\u00a0<\/span><\/span>i<\/span><\/span>n\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Kwun<\/span><\/span> Tong<\/span><\/span>. Despite the out-of-date policies that prohibit most of the cultural\u00a0<\/span><\/span>activities<\/span><\/span> to take\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pl<\/span><\/span>ace in industrial buildings<\/span><\/span>, habitants managed to get by and built their own nurturing <\/span><\/span>grounds for creativity<\/span><\/span>. Yet, recent s<\/span><\/span>chemes to <\/span><\/span>formally\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201crevitalize\u201d these <\/span><\/span>buildings <\/span><\/span>are <\/span><\/span>sabotaging<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0already dynamic micro-community instead<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>This thesis aim to investigate the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>potentials of “rebellious”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>informal <\/span><\/span>spaces<\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>that are <\/span><\/span>deni<\/span><\/span>ed by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the system)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>created by the socially “unwanted”<\/span><\/span> through <\/span><\/span>addressing the inadequacy of the “top-down” revitalization approach.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The flock\u00a0of budding\u00a0creatives\u00a0moving into industrial buildings during the decline of\u00a0Hong Kong\u2019s manufacturing era has led to an organic flourishing\u00a0of local creative\u00a0industry, in particular the independent music scene\u00a0in\u00a0Kwun Tong. Despite the out-of-date policies that prohibit most of the cultural\u00a0activities to take\u00a0place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[258,255,256,257,116],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}