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Ukraine

Evolved as an audiovisual collaboration, ‘Spectre’ is an artistic depiction of megalopolis tension on an individual. A reflection on urbanization and overpopulation in hyperbolized scale. A ghost of the foreseeable future questioning a significance of one’s role in the giant mechanism. Shot mostly in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Hong Kong

In an increasingly digitised age, how can we bring inclusivity into spatial designs and how can individuals represent themselves in such spaces? This exhibit is showcasing the co-creations by citizens and architects - the "Volumetric Cinema" workshop openly invited more than 30 participants from all walks of life to co-learn Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 3D Extended Reality (XR) technologies, and generated five microcinema of urban landscapes in three weeks. Taught by seven international and interdisciplinary instructors, who toured participants around old districts of Hong Kong, interacted with residents, and studied urban redevelopment from the perspectives of inhabitants to jointly reflect on the multiplicity of our urban future(s). At the Mid-Autumn Festival, the workshop held a premiere event and community review, inviting residents to participate in interactive games and discuss the results of the workshop, and spent a warm and meaningful holiday together.

Berlin

Nepal

Siddhipur is small traditional settlement in Mahalaxmi municipality. People from Siddhipur always have to go to major city center for emergency health services. Mainly during the major crisis like earthquake and covid, the community realized a need of affordable health care center in case of emergency. To address the need, community member came together with the idea of building their own community health center. As a result, with the support from various agencies, community of Siddhipur was able to have their very own community health center where everyone has access to the health services they need, without suffering financial hardship. Now, no one needs to be deprived of the health services in Siddhipur.

Hong Kong

Seasonally, street sleepers in Kwun Tong Public Pier need to move out like the tide falls during the pier clearance by authorities, and move back to the pier like the tide rises afterwards. A mobile unit prototype is built with street sleepers themselves to deal with the seasonal clearance. It attempts to save construction materials without destroying the settlements in each clearance, which save energy for street sleepers rebuilding shelter and authorise to dump the construction waste respectively. By enhancing the efficiency of moving in and out, the project hope to stretch the tension between authorities, public and street sleepers on the usage of Kwun Tong Public Pier. The team will continue to document the intervention and situation of the pier in the upcoming clearance.

Austria

Mother Arkah A Filmic Allegory on the Rise and Fall of Ideologies ‘Mother Arkah’ is an 18-minute animated short film exploring a speculative climate-apocalypse scenario and the hypothesis of the posthumanist ideology ‘Bio-Technoism’. The project investigates concepts on prohibiting the ‘religion of growth’, future power structures shaped within the ‘Posthuman Convergence’, AI-driven symbiogenetic evolution and autopoietic architectures. The film serves as an allegory on mechanisms behind political belief systems, while posing questions about how deep the ‘urge for innovation’ is rooted within us humans and therefore how much humanness our planet can take. The virtual film production is executed in Unreal Engine 5. Media: Film, Sculpture, Publication — Info: for this competition I'm submitting the 1-Minute version to the whole film.