Traveling Architectures: A Feature Grant

Traveling Architectures used participatory design and performance methods in order to create transportable performance installations adaptable to diverse community sites. Pai dongs (hawkers’ stalls) serve as the central figure around which the other examples of everyday design culture such as lighting, textiles, and cinema, can be arranged. Traveling architectural forms—inspired by the pai dongs and developed through the design research laboratory, workshops, and public showing—reflect the histories of design cultures and its impact on Hong Kong livelihoods at an “everyday” level in different neighborhoods. 

Traveling Architectures Collective: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Choreographer, Director, Researcher; Vincci Mak, Landscape Architect, Seth Henderson, Documentary Filmmaker, and Lee Chi-Wai, Lighting Designer.

Traveling Architectures Project Collaborators: Traveling Architectures Collective, Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Limited, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre, HKU Common Core, HKU Black Box, Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage. 

Funded by Design Trust (an Initiative of Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, 2016-2017)

A Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Project