CMP social curating-hope

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Museum as a method…

…to explore indigenous creativity,

visual culture and public culture,

and to encourage articulation and

participation …

… towards Social Curating

Project: In Search of Marginalized

Wisdom – Craftspeople in Sham Shui Po

From Social innovation to social enterprise (2007-)

Background

• The city as interwoven clusters of

social resources

• Drain of local knowledge due to lack

of documentation & urban re-

development

• Articulation of local lifestyle and

indigenous creativity as building

block for social development

Phase #1:

Research >>> Exhibition

Phase #2:

Craftsman-Designer Collaboration

Phase #3:

Towards a social enterprise

Phase #1:

Research >>>

Exhibition

www.hkcmp.org/craftsman_book.pdf

Craftspeople research

Focus: Materials & Components

Focus: Tools

Focus: Process (wooden cart)

Focus: Space

Focus: Community Network

Exhibition: Setting

Guided tours

What have we learnt from the research?

How does the traditional production fit

into contemporary design?

Observation: recycle system (wooden cart)

Observation: versatility of technique (metal work)

Observation: space and production transform

(rattan furniture)

Observation: space and production transform

(rattan furniture)

Observation: modular production (rattan couch)

Observation: participatory consumption >>

community network (beading)

Observation: participatory consumption >>

community network (bead weaving)

Observation: possibility of cross-sector

collaboration (seamstresses/NGO/designers)

Observation: possibility of cross-sector

collaboration (seamstresses/NGO/designers)

Phase #2:

Craftsman-Designer Collaboration

Principles of collaboration:

• Traditional technique >>> new &

contemporary applications

• Minimum modification to existing work

process

• Sharing credits and rights among

craftspeople and designers

Craftsman-designer collaboration:

Yau Kee X Brian Lee

Craftsman-designer collaboration Craftsman-designer collaboration:

Yau Kee X Brian Lee

Yau Kee X Paul Chu

Ho Chung Kee X Benny Lau

Works from R&D workshops

Ho Chung Kee X Albert Tsang

Victory Metal Work X Tony Lim

ADPL Social Service Centre Sewing Co-op X

Hung Hing Ho X Cheung Lik

Tat Shing Rattan Furniture X Chong Wai-yung

Phase #3: Towards a social enterprise

Craftsman X Designer X NGO collaborative

production:

•Based on knowledge exchange and creativity

•New design based on existing production

(craftsmanship/NGO) at a community level

•Commercially viable / competitive products

•To share credits and income among

contributors

•Production model that envelops education

家縫

救世軍

織職同盟

Designer X NGO workshop

Designer X NGO production

Youth education workshop

Project: Experiments in Upcycling

Design (2010-)

Five-way partnership

Cultural partners:

artists/designers,

academics, researchers

Community

partners:

local industries /

craftspeople,

NGOs, residents

Education

partners:

institutes,

students,

apprentice

Business partners:

industrial material

donors, business

strategies, retailing

Government partners:

policy bureau, district

council

Production

Support

Social Curatoring

• Mapping social resources / local

knowledge and skateholders

• Mix n’ match social resources >>> encouraging cross-disciplinary

collaboration & knowledge exchange >>> towards co-ownership >>> create new social relationship

• Need-based community building >>>

asset-based community building