Shuttle bus info (For those who registered for this workshop) We would like to inform you that the ICAS 13 Organising Committee has prepared a shuttle bus from the Campus B, Universitas Airlangga to the Workshop venue, Kampung Tambak Bayan. (please note: Only for those who registered for the workshop).
If you want to make use of the shuttle service, please ensure to be at UNAIR shuttle bus pick-up/drop-off point by 15:55. Please note that the bus will leave to the workshop venue on time. An ICAS 13 Badge is required to board the shuttle bus.
*Shuttle bus only brings participants to the workshop location, after the session, participant can explore Surabaya at their leisure. Find more information about Surabaya transportation here.
Activity or Workshop Details: The jumping-off point of this workshop comes from the saying in Hong Kong yi sik zhu hung, ‘dressing, eating, living, moving’, the four aspects that make up everyday life. These experiences are universal, and yet in the context of a neoliberal city like Hong Kong, can offer alternative narratives to the colonial histories that have defined it. Hong Kong’s positioning as an entrepot, a manufacturing hub and a centre for global high finance means that the city’s material cultures are always constructed upon a global network of knowledge, transactions, and labour. Hong Kong Design History Network (hkdhnet), as a research collective, seeks to explore new threads of Hong Kong history through the lens of design and material culture. This workshop proposal responds to the category, ‘5 Transmitting Knowledges: Institutions, Objects and Practices.’
This workshop invites attendees to take part in a co-production through speculative narratives and ‘critical fabulations’ of seemingly unassuming objects. Presenting a series of Hong Kong objects under the four categories of yi sik zhu hung, the workshop will initiate and collate a series of speculations, memories, projections, anecdotes, poems, rumours, criticisms, analyses and fabulations of these objects offered by attendees over the course of the conference. Participants do not have to have prior experiences or understandings of Hong Kong to contribute, rather we encourage assumptions, speculations and imaginations of these objects. These could be displayed in a growing, on-going exhibition (digital or physical) for continuous contribution, and collated together in a visual media outcome.
This workshop intends to bring research to everyday life, and vice versa, through this co-production process.Through juxtaposing scholarship with these everyday objects, we hope to articulate a complex yet accessible ‘snapshot’ of the possibilities of design history and the various current discourses within Hong Kong studies and Asian studies as a whole. How might the opening and closing of these discourses, with different groups with varying experiences and knowledge of Hong Kong, create new avenues for exchange and discussion of parallel or intersecting histories? What happens when co-production is at the core of the methodology in history-writing?
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