Part
VIII: Spatializing Hong Kong
1.
Space: representations of space and spatial practices
1.1.
What is space? It is so difficult to answer this
question. Let us approach it from the way of dealing or interacting with it.
1.2.
Representations of space: e.g. map, narrative about
an area, etc., i.e. knowledge about space.
1.3.
Spatial practices: human activities in spaces, i.e.
space for living and perceiving
1.4.
Representations and practices are always
institutional and are involves in power relations.
1.5.
Example: World Atlas (Gerardus Mercator’s projection)
2.
Spatializing Hong Kong from a bird-eye view
2.1.
This “bird-eye” can be fictional or non-fictional
2.2.
Spatializing Hong Kong as a colonial project
2.3.
Putting Hong Kong on the map for planning.
2.4.
The practices (as well as the institutions) are
hidden behind the maps and the representation is taken as the reality.
2.5.
Hong Kong as a space with a wide variety of
“functions”: a modernist space
3.
Other ways of spatialization
3.1.
Mapping for consumption and tourism
3.2.
Visualizing the power
3.3.
Spatial practices behind the maps
4.
Spatialization: representation+perception
4.1.
Human space cannot be reduced to functions.
4.2.
Human’s spatial experience involves representation,
perception and the “chemical reactions” of these two elements.
4.3.
Releasing the representation and perception from the
modernist sense of space, one can have more resources for narrating Hong Kong.